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- Birth nameKarl Gustav Vollmöller
- Karl Vollmöller was born on May 7, 1878 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was a writer, known for The Blue Angel (1930), Der Hermelinmantel (1915) and Wasted Love (1928). He was married to Maria Carmi. He died on October 18, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseMaria Carmi(1904 - 1920) (divorced)
- Author of the spectacle-pantomime "Das Mirakel", first produced in England in 1911, filmed twice in 1912, and brought to the Olympia Hall London and Broadway in 1924 as "The Miracle". This was an adaptation of an old legend about a nun and the Virgin Mary. For the 1959 film version of "The Miracle", dialogue and new characters were added from Spanish writer Zorrilla y Moral's play "Leyendas", and the pantomime was turned into a standard Hollywood religious epic.
- Wrote the screenplay for the film that made Marlene Dietrich a star, The Blue Angel (1930).
- Karl Vollmöller left Germany with the rise of the National Socialists and he lived in Italy, France and in the USA where he spent the last years of his life. He always resisted to the allurements of the German Reich with lucrative functions.
- His uncle Karl Vollmöller (1848-1922) was a notable Romance philologist and Anglicist; his sister Mathilde Vollmöller (1876-1943) married the painter Hans Purrmann in 1912.
- The flying had also a magic fascination for him. Together with his brother, the aircraft designer Hans Robert Vollmöller, he built aeroplanes.
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