Adolphe L'Arronge (8 March 1838 – 25 May 1908) was a German

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

and

theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

. His best known work is the 1873 comedy play '' My Leopold'' which has been adapted into numerous films.Dennis Kennedy (2010). ''The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance''. Oxford University Press. p. 335.

Selected works

* '' My Leopold'' (1873) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1877) * '' The Lonei Household'' (1880)

References

1838 births 1908 deaths Writers from Hamburg {{Germany-playwright-stub