{{more citations needed|date=March 2010}} '''Max Ferner''' was a German playwright, born Maximilian Sommer on 18 April 1881.<ref>{{IMDb name|0273125}}</ref> He died in Munich at the age of 59 on 9 October 1940.
Ferner teamed up with his friend Max Neal to write librettos for two operettas for the Austrian composer Karl Michael Ziehrer, which were performed in September 1913 and again in February 1916.
Ferner also wrote and co-wrote with Neal a series of plays, many of which were later converted to movies.
== Plays == * ''Der müde Theodor'' (1913, co-author Max Neal) * ''Fürst Casimir'', operetta by Karl Michael Ziehrer (1913, co-author Max Neal) * ''Im siebenten Himmel'', operetta by Karl Michael Ziehrer (1916, co-author Max Neal) * ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Die drei Dorfheiligen|de}}'' (1920, co-author Max Neal) * ''Der Hunderter im Westentaschl'' (1935, co-author Max Neal)
==Filmography== *''Der müde Theodor'' (1918, based on the play ''Der müde Theodor'') *''{{Interlanguage link multi|Trötte Teodor (1931 film)|sv|3=Trötte Teodor (film, 1931)|lt=Trötte Teodor}}'' (Sweden, 1931, based on the play ''Der müde Theodor'') *''{{Interlanguage link multi|Service de nuit (1932 film)|fr|3=Service de nuit (film, 1932)|lt=Service de nuit}}'' (France, 1932, based on the play ''Der müde Theodor'') *''Der müde Theodor'' (1936, based on the play ''Der müde Theodor'') *''Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine'' (1936, based on the play ''Der Hunderter im Westentaschl'') *''{{Interlanguage link multi|Trötte Teodor (1945 film)|sv|3=Trötte Teodor (film, 1945)|lt=Trötte Teodor}}'' (Sweden, 1945, based on the play ''Der müde Theodor'') *''{{Interlanguage link multi|Die drei Dorfheiligen (1949 film)|de|3=Die drei Dorfheiligen (1949)|lt=Die drei Dorfheiligen}}'' (1949, based on the play ''Die drei Dorfheiligen'') *''Tired Theodore'' (1957, based on the play ''Der müde Theodor'')
===Screenwriter=== * ''A Song from Days of Youth'' (1925)<!--January 1925--> *''The Shot in the Pavilion'' (1925)<!--18 September 1925--> *''Marccos erste Liebe'' (1925) *''The Secret of One Hour'' (1926)<!--4 February 1926--> *''The Seventh Son'' (1926)<!--23 March 1926--> *''Secret Sinners'' (1926)<!--22 June 1926--> *''I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926)<!--13 July 1926--> *''The Mountain Eagle'' (1927)<!--23 May 1927 (UK), 27 May 1926 (Germany)--> *''Valencia'' (1927)<!--30 May 1927--> *''My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You'' (1927)<!--8 July 1927--> *''The Foreign Legionnaire'' (1928)<!--1 March 1928--> *''Spy of Madame Pompadour'' (1928)<!--6 September 1928--> *''Restless Hearts'' (1928)<!--1 November 1928--> *''The Fate of the House of Habsburg'' (1928)<!--16 November 1928--> *''Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928)<!--10 December 1928--> *''Waterloo'' (1929) *''{{Interlanguage link multi|In einer kleinen Konditorei|de}}'' (1930) *''Im Banne der Berge'' (1931) * ''At the Strasbourg'' (1934)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferner, Max}} Category:1881 births Category:1940 deaths Category:Operetta librettists Category:German male dramatists and playwrights Category:20th-century German dramatists and playwrights Category:20th-century German male writers