Georg C. Klaren was born in Vienna on October 9, 1900 and died in Sawbridgeworth (UK) on November 18, 1962. He studied languages and worked as a journalist. As of 1922 he worked in the film business, first for Vita Film in Vienna, and later on for Froehlich Studios Berlin and TERRA in Berlin. He wrote over 150 film scripts and also worked as a novelist and script editor. After World War II, he was the temporary chief scenario editor for DEFA in Potsdam before moving back to Vienna in 1950.

Klaren planned to make a film about acting students and another on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neither production ever came to fruition, and he returned to Austria. Klaren died, very ill and almost blind, in 1962 in a town near London. The events in the last years of Klaren's life are to this day still somewhat unclear. In Germany, the director of Wozzeck had already been practically forgotten.

Filmography

Children in Court (Kinder vor Gericht) 1931; Wozzeck (Wozzeck) 1947; Dr. Semmelweis (Semmelweis - Retter der Muetter) 1950; The Sonnenbrucks (Die Sonnenbrucks) 1951; Career in Paris (Karriere in Paris) 1952: Daughter of the Regiment (Regimentstochter) 1953.