Dramatist; Novelist; Essayist; Television, Radio & Film Scenario Writer; Radio Commentator

* 20.1.1902. Hohensalza, Germany.

Educ. Ph.D., Berlin Univ. Pubis. incl: Diw Geschichten um den Grossen Nazarener (novel), 1926; Disraelie, der Judische Lord (play), 1930; Phryne the Courtesan (play). 1948; Die Berühmte Gräfin Hatzfeld (play), 1961; Kurz Wie Ein Traum (play), 1962; num. German transls. of plays by Terance Rattigàn, Charles Morgan, Peter Ustinov, etc. Contbr. to: BBC London; Swiss Radio; Westdeutscher Rundfunk; Deutschlandfunk. Mbr., num. lit. orgs. Hons. incl: Schiller Prize; 1st Class Order of Merit, German Fed. Repub.