- Source: Hans Adler (poet)
Hans Adler (1880, in Vienna – 1957) was a German author of humorous poems, many of which appeared in the magazine Simplicissimus and were later collected in the volume Affentheater.
Works
Das Städtchen (1926, novel)
Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo (with Rudolf Lothar, 1933, play) - English-language adaptation: The Red Cat
Hau-ruck (under the pen name "Paul Vulpius", 1933, play) - English-language adaptation: Youth at the Helm
Die Tänzerin Fanny Elßler (1934, operetta, based on the music of Johann Strauss II)
Mädchen für alles (with Paul Frank, 1934, play)
Morgen ist Feiertag (with Leo Perutz and Paul Frank, 1935, play) - English-language adaptation: Tomorrow's a Holiday
Tohuwabohu (with Alexander Lernet-Holenia, 1936, play)
Verliebtes Abenteuer (1938, play)
Meine Nichte Susanne (1942, operetta, with music by Alexander Steinbrecher; based on the play Les Trente Millions de Gladiator by Eugène Labiche and Philippe Gille)
"Help yourself".
Filmography
Fanny Elssler, directed by Frederic Zelnik (Germany, 1920, based on the operetta Die Tänzerin Fanny Elßler)
Folies Bergère de Paris, directed by Roy Del Ruth (1935, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
Lärm um Weidemann, directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla (Germany, 1935, based on the play Hau-ruck) (uncredited)
Jack of All Trades, directed by Robert Stevenson and Jack Hulbert (UK, 1936, based on the play Hau-ruck)
Mädchen für alles, directed by Carl Boese (Germany, 1937, based on the play Mädchen für alles)
Verliebtes Abenteuer, directed by Hans H. Zerlett (Germany, 1938, based on the play Verliebtes Abenteuer)
La danza dei milioni, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque (Italy, 1940, based on the play Hau-ruck) (uncredited)
That Night in Rio, directed by Irving Cummings (1941, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
Die tolle Susanne, directed by Géza von Bolváry (Germany, 1945, based on the operetta Meine Nichte Susanne), unfinished film
Esta é Fina, directed by Luiz de Barros (Brazil, 1948, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
My Niece Susanne, directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner (West Germany, 1950, based on the operetta Meine Nichte Susanne)
Escándalo nocturno, directed by Juan Carlos Thorry (Argentina, 1951, based on the play Tohuwabohu)
On the Riviera, directed by Walter Lang (1951, based on the play Die Nacht vor dem Ultimo)
Drei, von denen man spricht, directed by Axel von Ambesser (West Germany, 1953, based on the play Hau-ruck)
= Screenwriter
=Die Menschen nennen es Liebe, directed by Mano Ziffer-Teschenbruck (Germany, 1922)
Sommerliebe, directed by Erich Engel (Germany, 1942)
References
Malten, William (1968). Literarische Kleinkunst. Harper & Row.