- Carlsen screenplays served numerous genres, in addition to melodramas, costume films and historical dramas, above all adaptations of literary sources - from Leo Tolstoy to Henrik Ibsen and George Sand to Edgar Wallace.
- After her application for admission to the Reich Chamber of Literature was rejected on February 21, 1935, the writer emigrated to Paris.
- She quickly developed an interest in writing and, even before the outbreak of the First World War, began to publish novellas (e.g. Eva's Diary and A Letter), initially under the male pseudonym Frank Carlsen.
- It the literary environment Fanny Carlsen delivered her most important manuscripts in 1927/28: Zelnik's adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber and Jacques Feyder's version of Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin under the German title (Du sollst nicht ehebrechen!) " You shouldn't adulterate!". Almost at the same time, Carlsen delivered another Hauptmann adaptation, "Der Biberpelz", which was directed by Erich Schönfelder.
- With the rise of the sound film Fanny Carlsen only realised one more screenplay for the movie "Die Tänzerin von Sans Souci" (1932).
- She became a busy screenwriter in the 20s and she realised scripts for numerous productions.
- She was an Austrian writer and screenwriter with intensive activity in the (mostly silent) film of the Weimar Republic.
- She wrote first screenplays for the film from 1918, among them "Die Liebe des van Royk" (1918), "Marionetten der Leidenschaft" (1919), "Der Seelenverkäufer" (1919) and "Anna Karenina" (1919).
- In 1918 she joined the film industry in Berlin. In the years 1918/19 she almost exclusively wrote manuscripts for Lupu Pick's productions, from 1920 Fanny Carlsen was mostly in the service of Friedrich Zelnik and became the dramaturge of his production company.
- Her career ended with the rise of the National Socialists. As a Jew, she could no longer work and she emigrated to Paris, where she died in 1944.
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