Career
He died in Munich at the age of 59 at the onset of World World War II on October 9, 1940. Ferner also wrote and co-wrote with Max Neal a series of plays, many of which were converted to movies later, such as. The Shot in the Pavilion (1925) Aus der Jugendzeit klingt ein Lied (1925) The Seventh Son (1926) Heimliche Sünder (1926) Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren (1926) Valencia (1927) Mein Heidelberg, ich kann Dich nicht vergessen (1927) Trötte Teodor (1931), (1945) Service de nuit (1932) Der müde Theodor (1936), (1957), (1959 television), (1965 television), (1979), (1995) He was the screenplay co-writer for what would later become Alfred Hitchcock"s film The Mountain Eagle (1927).