Kaden was the son of the Polish-Jewish couple Markus and Ewa Kirschenfinkel. He attended a grammar school in Warsaw until 1902 and went to Berlin in 1907. In the following years he worked as a film comedian under the stage name Nunek Danuky . From August 1913 he worked as a director, author and leading actor and presumably under a pseudonym as a screenwriter for the newly founded Uranus Film Society. In June 1914 he terminated his contract and took on short-term commitments exclusively as a director.
In autumn 1916 he founded Danny-Kaden-Film GmbH under his new artist name Danny Kaden and worked as a director for various companies. In April 1919 he went back to Poland on behalf of Ufa and founded the Ufa subsidiary Warszawska Kinematograficzana SA here. At the same time, he worked as a director for the film company Sfinks. He had to close his own company in 1923. In the following years he was active as a film official and in 1927 was elected the first chairman of the newly founded Association of Polish Film Producers. In 1934 he became co-owner and later director of the new company Atelier i Laboratorium Sfinks .
In the spring of 1939 Kaden converted to Protestantism. On October 29, 1940 he was born together with his wife Wilhelmine. Gerstmair was forcibly relocated to the Warsaw ghetto and shot there two years later when the ghetto was liquidated.
Filmography
Director
1913: 3 × 3 = 1
1913: The Secret of House 69
1913: The reserve reservist
1913: The fateful calling card
1913: Consequences of the swimming pool
1913: Troubled friends
1913: Marga, picture of life from artistic circles
↑ Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 35, limited preview in the Google book search.
