Erik Charell was born on April 9, 1895 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for Congress Dances (1931), Fireworks (1954) and Im Weissen Rössl (1952). He died on July 15, 1974 in Zurich, Switzerland.
was a very successful theatrical director for musical revues and
operettas, especially at Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
Revolutionized the German musical theatre by developing the idea of 'staged nudity' and by combining European operetta with idioms of the American music theatre, hoping to create a more 'cosmopolitan German'style.
Studied dance and was discovered by the writer Karl Vollmoeller during a 1913 performance of a ballet-pantomime at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.