Hans Janowitz

Hans Janowitz
Born	(1890-12-02)2 December 1890 Poděbrady, Austria-Hungary
Died	25 May 1954(1954-05-25) (aged 63) New York City, United States
Occupation	Author
Nationality	German
Literary movement	German expressionism
Notable works	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Hans Janowitz (2 December 1890 – 25 May 1954) was a German author.

Janowitz was an officer in

Supposedly, the film was at first offered to director Fritz Lang, in the early part of his career, who suggested the now-famous framing story of the madman remembering his past, who then recounts the tale of a girl's mysterious murder, first read about by Janowitz in a newspaper account. Janowitz and Mayer protested the change, but it was made anyway over their objections, ^{[citation needed]} and Lang left the project to direct another film. Wiene was then hired to direct the film.

Janowitz then worked with another two movies by F. W. Murnau. As early as 1922, he ended his movie career and became active in the oil business.

Selected filmography

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 1920)
• Der Januskopf (1920)
• Eternal River (1920)
• The Red Masquerade Ball (1921)
• The Black Panther (1921)
• Circus of Life (1921)
• Roswolsky's Mistress (Die Geliebte Roswolskys, 1921)
• Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna
  (Marizza, genannt die Schmugglermadonna, 1922)
• The Burning Secret (1923)

External links

• Hans Janowitz at
  IMDb

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