Adaptations & productions.

These Trifling Causes

with Betty Jo Weaver

Original play co-written with American playwright Betty Jo Weaver; the bound typescript survives in Hellmer's papers.

Love From A Stranger

German-language adaptation staged with Ernst Deutsch at the Kammerspiele of the Theater in der Josefstadt (Vienna); ran roughly 100 performances and travelled to Prague and other cities.

You Can't Take It With You

Kaufman & Hart adapted for the German stage; produced at the Kammerspiele of the Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna.

Majestät Privat (Le Roi)

Comedy by Flers & Caillavet reworked as a musical with music by Ralph Benatzky; premiered at the Theater an der Wien, Christmas 1937 — about 80 performances.

Three Minute Murder

German-language adaptation staged in Prague.

Fusillé à l'Aube

Adaptation of the Maurice Dekobra play; prohibited in Germany by the censors.

Yes, My Darling Daughter

German-language adaptation prepared for production in Switzerland.

Eine reizende Familie (Kiss and Tell)

Postwar German translation and adaptation of F. Hugh Herbert's comedy, published in Berlin by OMGUS in 1946.

Ja, mein Liebling

1947 radio adaptation of Mark Reed's play for Radio Stuttgart (Süddeutscher Rundfunk); translation and script by Hellmer, direction by Cläre Schimmel.