- Author of the spectacle-pantomime "Das Mirakel", first produced in England in 1911, filmed twice in 1912, and brought to the Olympia Hall London and Broadway in 1924 as "The Miracle". This was an adaptation of an old legend about a nun and the Virgin Mary. For the 1959 film version of "The Miracle", dialogue and new characters were added from Spanish writer Zorrilla y Moral's play "Leyendas", and the pantomime was turned into a standard Hollywood religious epic.
- Wrote the screenplay for the film that made Marlene Dietrich a star, The Blue Angel (1930).
- Karl Vollmöller left Germany with the rise of the National Socialists and he lived in Italy, France and in the USA where he spent the last years of his life. He always resisted to the allurements of the German Reich with lucrative functions.
- His uncle Karl Vollmöller (1848-1922) was a notable Romance philologist and Anglicist; his sister Mathilde Vollmöller (1876-1943) married the painter Hans Purrmann in 1912.
- The flying had also a magic fascination for him. Together with his brother, the aircraft designer Hans Robert Vollmöller, he built aeroplanes.
- To Karl Vollmöller's last novels belong "Schmutziges Geld" (1925), "Acht Mirakel der Heiligen Jungfrau Maria" (1928), "The Younger Brother of Christ" (1945) and "The Last Miracle" (1949).
- He was born into a wealthy family. His father (Robert Vollmöller (1849-1911) presided over one of the biggest textile enterprise in Europe and his mother ( Emilie, née Behr (1852-1894) campaigned for the equal rights for women.
- Karl Vollmöller got in touch with the world of the theater from 1903 and he wrote many plays and some of them became successful worldwide. To these works belong "Giulia, dia Amerikanerin" (1905), "Der deutsche Graf" (1906), "Antigone" (1906), "Wieland" (1911) and especially "Das Mirakel" (1911) which was a worldwide success in the 20s as a musical.
- The versatile Karl Gustav Vollmöller was not only an author and screenwriter but he was also active as an aircraft designer, philologist, poet, playwright, archaeologist and politician besides other jobs.
- In 1911 he wrote The Miracle in which Vollmöller cast his own wife Maria Carmi in the leading role. The Miracle retold an old legend about a nun in the Middle Ages who runs away from her convent with a knight, and subsequently has several mystical adventures, eventually leading to her being accused of witchcraft. During her absence, the statue of the Virgin Mary in the convent's chapel comes to life and takes the nun's place in the convent until her safe return. The play opened in Germany in 1911 and subsequently in London and on Broadway in 1924. Filmed twice as a silent movie, it was filmed once again in a much-altered version (with dialogue) in widescreen and Technicolor in 1959.
- The technical progress fascinated Karl Vollmöller similarly to the literature. He already was active as an automobile racer from 1902 and he took part in races for several years. He also took part in the first rally which led around the world. He finished third.
- The literature remained an important factor in his life and he translated numerous works of other authors into German.
- Karl Vollmöller was married with the actress Maria Carmi and he was allied with the dancer and actress Lena Amsel.
- In 1898 he journeyed Greece together with the poet Max Dauthendey and two years later joined the excavations at Pergamon led by Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Alexander Conze, Theodor Wiegand, and Paul Wolters.
- From 1899 he attended classical archaeology lectures in Bonn where he obtained his doctorate in 1901. At that time he spent the summers in Sorrento, Italy and published poems in periodicals like Simplicissimus, Pan, and Stefan George's Blätter für die Kunst.
- Vollmöller also carried out own excavations at Megara, together with Richard Delbrück. At the same time, he continued his poetry, maintaining a lively exchange with Stefan George, André Gide, August Strindberg, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose 1901 play Francesca da Rimini he translated into German.
- With the filming of his well-known play "Miracle" (12) he entered the film business as a screenwriter.
- After his education he wrote poems for the journals "Simpllicissimus" and "Pan" besides other publications.
- From 1904 Vollmöller translated classical dramas by Sophokles and Aischylos into German. His Antigone and Oresteia adaptions were staged several times by the famous theatre director Max Reinhardt, the beginning of a long-term successful collaboration.
- He published his first novel in 1897 with "Die Sturm- und Drangperiode und der moderne Realismus". At the beginnig of the 20th century followed other novels with "Parcival - Die frühen Gärten" (02) and "Catherina, Gräfin von Armagnac" (03). At this time he was also active as an archaeologist in Greece where he worked together with Wilhelm Dörpfeld among others.
- He is most famous for the elaborate religious spectacle-pantomime The Miracle.
- Karl Vollmöller wrote and published his first poems in the middle of the 1890s, beside it he studied art and painting as well as the classics.
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