Besides his activity as an actor he also wrote several scripts.
To his first silent movies belong "Die Czardasfürstin" (19) and "Freut Euch des Lebens" (20) with the Austrian silent movie star Liane Haid.
Afterwards followed a longer interruption and he acted again for the theater only.
The actor Karl Bachmann began his career at the theater before he appeared in a movie in 1919 for the first time.