Ernst Lubitsch: The Director with the Golden Touch — theculturetrip.com

Enter your writing to The Culture Trip Award & you could win $3,000! #tctaward We are offering a $3,000 prize for a student or recent graduate whose article on The Culture Trip attains the highest readership within 3 months of publication, $2,000 for the second most-read article and $1,000 for the third most-read article. At age 19, he became an actor at the Deutsches Theater, one of the premiere theatre companies in Germany thanks to the direction of the legendary Max Reinhardt. Lubitsch quickly moved into the burgeoning field of cinema, performing primarily comedic roles like the Jewish character ‘Meyer’, for which he would become well known. Feeling limited by what he perceived to be his early typecasting however, he decided to venture into writing and directing, making his directorial debut with the short film Fraulein Seifenschaum (Miss Soapsuds) in 1914.

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