- For most of her movies she also wrote the screenplay and after her career as a movie director she continued her activity as a screenwriter.
- Besides her activity for the film she also used her writing abilities for the radio and publications and she wrote books like "Die beiden Schwestern".
- She already joined the film business in 1913 when she wrote the screenplay for the filming of her book of the same name "Die Berliner Range" (1913).
- After a study for literature, art and cultural studies she began a career as a stage actress.
- She wrote the scripts for the silent movie "Der Fahnenträger von Sedan" (1927) as well as for the sound movies "Panik beim Maskenball" (1937), "Die beiden Schwestern" (1943) and "Die schwarze Robe" (1944).
- She learned her acting abilities in Munich and Berlin and she also took acting lessons by the famous actor Eduard von Winterstein. In the next years she got engagements in Berlin, Darmstadt and Düsseldorf.
- Finally she turned away from acting and began to work as an author.
- During World War I she returned to the theater as an actress but from 1918 she concentrated to her film career.
- Iwa Raffay was among others married with the actor Karl Falkenberg who also took part in some of her movies.
- She realised several movies as a director and screenwriter and she founded her own production company "Iwa Raffay-Film-Gesellschaft".
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