# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-mayer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:23:32.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-mayer"
name: "Carl Mayer"
slug: "carl-mayer"
description: "Carl Mayer 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."
tagline: "British-German screenwriter (1894-1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl-mayer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-11-20"
deathDate: "1944-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.57674933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562346/"
    handle:    "nm0562346"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%94%D1%80"
    title: "Карл Маєр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "كارل ماير (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89)"
    title: "كارل ماير (سيناريست من الرايخ الالمانى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Карл Майер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer_(Drehbuchautor)"
    title: "Carl Mayer (Drehbuchautor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "کارل مایر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC_(%E8%84%9A%E6%9C%AC%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "カール・マイヤー (脚本家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Майер, Карл (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78758"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2792"
    title: "Carl Mayer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump