He also wrote under the pseudonyms Alexander Stark, Nicholas Haug and Fyodor Ukrainow.
After studying philosophy, literature and art history in Berlin, Kiel and Munich (1913 to 1916) he worked as a playwright and theater director in Falck (near Munich), Düsseldorf and Leipzig.
From 1926 he was a theater critic and arts and community college professor in Berlin.
As a theatre critic he also published pieces in the Münchner Zeitung.
After the war he added to his literary career by founding numerous writing organizations and was President of the Protective Association of Writers, founding the literary copyright collecting society for that in 1956.