Carl Mayer

Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter. Mayer wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), ''The Haunted Castle'' (1921), ''Der Letzte Mann'' (1924), ''Tartuffe'' (1926), ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927), and ''4 Devils'' (1928), most of them being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Mayer was a fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German expressionist cinema and ''Kammerspielfilm''. Provided by Wikipedia