Which author wrote the plays adapted into the 1929 film Pandora’s Box?

Frank Wedekind wrote the plays adapted into the 1929 film Pandora’s Box. The film combines material from Wedekind’s Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora, which center on the character Lulu and her turbulent relationships.

Wedekind was a German playwright whose work often challenged conventional ideas about sexuality, morality, and bourgeois society. Lulu was created as a provocative figure rather than as a straightforward version of the ancient Greek Pandora. The shared title and themes of danger and social disruption connect the film to the myth, but the plot belongs to Wedekind’s theatrical world.

The two plays were written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and later became the foundation for several adaptations. Alban Berg also used the Lulu material for his unfinished opera Lulu, creating another major work distinct from the 1929 film.