Josef Coenen

Biography

Josef Coenen was born on 30 March 1885 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Coenen began working there in 1912 as a recording manager and director at the film production company Decla until 1916. From 1918 to 1920 he was again engaged as a director by Decla and staged several films with Carola Toelle in the leading role. Between 1922 and 1929 Josef Coenen owned his own production company in Munich . In 1929 an obligation took him to Paris (Perret Pictures). The transition to the sound film failed Coenen; from 1932 to 1936 he was ill, since January 1938 unemployed. His last sign of life dates from 1941.

Directed

1. Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern (1919) — Director
2. Phantome des Lebens (1919) — Director
3. Das ewige Rätsel (1919) — Director
4. Die Ehe der Frau Mary (1919) — Director
5. Die Insel der Glücklichen (1919) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Das Teufelsloch (1913)
2. Die Jagd nach der Hundertpfundnote oder die Reise um die Welt (1913)
3. Die Stricknadeln (1916)
4. Der Herr der Welt (1914)
5. Das verwunschene Schloß (1919) — Franz