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He joined the film business in 1915 and he wrote his first screenplays for movies like "Kehre zurück! Alles vergeben!" (1915), and "Der Katzensteg" (1915).

The transition to the sound film was no problem for him but the political change in Germany finished his film career.

Before he went to England where he earned his living as a translator of British authors.

He had to leave Germany and went to Austria because of the National Socialists. In 1938 he moved to Paris.

The screenwriter Adolf Lantz began his career at the theater where he was the manager of theaters like the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Berlin and the Theater am Zoo in Berlin.

After the National Socialists came to power, Lantz went to Austria, where he was able to sell his last screenplay, Sonnenstrahl, in 1933.

After the annexation of Austria, he emigrated to Paris, where he edited Kurt Bernhardt's movie "Carrefour" in 1938.

From October 1948 to April 1949, he stayed in the USA to visit his son Robert Lantz (1914-2007), a journalist, occasional producer and acting and literary agent. Adolf Lantz then returned to London. He died there four months later.

In London, he was mainly active as a translator of English authors (Philipp Gibbs, Victor Canning).

In the 1920s, Lantz was a busy screenwriter who mastered both light-hearted and serious material.