Adolf Paul

Biography

Adolf Georg Wiedersheim-Paul was a Swedish writer of novels/plays and an actor. In 1892 he published a collection of short stories called "The Ripper", in which one chapter entitled "Vanitas" concerns a homosexual liasion between a priest and a schoolboy in Weimar, Germany, while "Oedipus i Norden" is a mother-son incest story from Scandinavia. Adolf Paul lived most of his adult life in Berlin, Germany, where he was a close friend of Swedish writer August Strindberg, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

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Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

1916Winner

Best Performance

The Mysterious Book

1918Winner

Best Performance

Mitternacht

1919Nominee

Best Writing

Kameraden

Career Highlights

1918Highlight

Best Writing

Lola Montez

1916Highlight

Best Performance

The Artificial Man