Carl Mayer

Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Head of Janus, The Haunted Castle, Der Letzte Mann, Tartuffe, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and 4 Devils, 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.