Biography

Carlsen screenplays served numerous genres, in addition to melodramas, costume films and historical dramas, above all adaptations of literary sources - from Leo Tolstoy to Henrik Ibsen and George Sand to Edgar Wallace.

After her application for admission to the Reich Chamber of Literature was rejected on February 21, 1935, the writer emigrated to Paris.

She quickly developed an interest in writing and, even before the outbreak of the First World War, began to publish novellas (e.g. Eva's Diary and A Letter), initially under the male pseudonym Frank Carlsen.

It the literary environment Fanny Carlsen delivered her most important manuscripts in 1927/28: Zelnik's adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber and Jacques Feyder's version of Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin under the German title (Du sollst nicht ehebrechen!) " You shouldn't adulterate!". Almost at the same time, Carlsen delivered another Hauptmann adaptation, "Der Biberpelz", which was directed by Erich Schönfelder.

With the rise of the sound film Fanny Carlsen only realised one more screenplay for the movie "Die Tänzerin von Sans Souci" (1932).