Ludwig Fulda

Biography

Frankfurt’s Free City cradled Ludwig Fulda on 15 July 1862, and from that Rhine-Main crossroads he grew into the word-weaver whose stories later flickered across three very different screens: the utopian fable Das verlorene Paradies (1917), the domestic epic Schwert und Herd (1916), and, two years after his death, MGM’s glossy Two-Faced Woman (1941). Between the lines of his plays and libretti he also threaded two marriages—first to Helene Anna Klara Grinwalszky, later to Ida Theumann. His own final curtain fell in Berlin on 8 April 1939, closing a life that had moved from Hessian streets to global marquees.