The 1929 film Pandora's Box adapted Lulu stories from plays by which German writer?

The 1929 film Pandora’s Box adapted Lulu stories from plays by Frank Wedekind.

Wedekind wrote the plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box, which together form the source for Pabst’s film. Their central character, Lulu, is portrayed as a powerful and disruptive figure whose relationships expose hypocrisy, desire, and social control. The film condenses and reshapes this theatrical material for silent cinema.

Frank Wedekind was a German playwright whose work often challenged conventional morality and theatrical expectations. He wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his Lulu plays later influenced other adaptations, including Alban Berg’s opera Lulu.

The film’s title can cause confusion because Pandora is not its protagonist. Lulu is the character at the center of the narrative, while “Pandora’s Box” functions as the title inherited from Wedekind’s second play and as a metaphor for destructive consequences.