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- Birth nameAdolf Georg Wiedersheim-Paul
- Adolf Paul was born on January 6, 1863 in Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was a writer and actor, known for The Palace of Pleasure (1926), One Mad Kiss (1930) and El precio de un beso (1930). He was married to Natalie Brehmer. He died on October 5, 1943 in Berlin, Germany.
- SpouseNatalie Brehmer(August 18, 1897 - September 30, 1943) (his death, 5 children)
- Paul's father wanted him to become a farmer, and he first studied agriculture at Mustiala Agriculture Center in Tammela. After three years of studies, Paul's father let Paul manage a farm the father owned on the Ruissalo island outside Turku. Soon growing bored with farming, Paul decided to become an artist.
- In Sweden, Paul was overshadowed by August Strindberg, his older friend whom he greatly admired and whose work influenced Paul's early novels. When Strindberg relocated to Berlin in 1892 after his divorce from Siri von Essen, Paul was the one who introduced him to everyone worth knowing and to the hangout Zum schwarzen Ferkel, where the artist community gathered. For a while the two writers boarded together.
- Between 1914 and 1919 Paul worked as a screenwriter and wrote scripts for some 14 films, including Die Teufelskirche. In 1919 he wrote a movie script for 'Die Tänzerin Barberina' starring August Strindberg's third wife Harriet Bosse.
- Studying at the Music Academy in Helsinki, he became a friend of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Both studied with the famous Italian composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni, who brought them to Germany when he moved there from Helsinki in 1889.
- Paul, his older sister, a younger sister and seven younger brothers grew up on a large estate his father managed.
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