Which author wrote the 1904 play Pandora’s Box adapted by the 1929 film?

Frank Wedekind wrote the 1904 play Pandora’s Box adapted by the 1929 film.

The silent film directed by G. W. Pabst draws on two plays by German playwright Frank Wedekind: Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box. Both works center on Lulu, a provocative and independent character whose relationships expose social hypocrisy and lead toward tragedy.

The play Pandora’s Box was first performed in 1904. Pabst’s film combines material from Wedekind’s dramatic works, reshaping the stage story for cinema and making Louise Brooks’s Lulu internationally famous. The title therefore belongs to a modern literary tradition as well as to the ancient myth.

Henrik Ibsen and Gerhart Hauptmann were influential dramatists from the same broad European theatrical world, but they did not write this play. Arthur Schnitzler is also associated with turn-of-the-century drama, yet Frank Wedekind is the documented source author.