Heinrich Christian Johann Spoerl (; 1887–1955) was a German author. Biography Spoerl was born on 8 February 1887 in Düsseldorf, where he also grew up. He studied jurisprudence in Marburg, Berlin and Munich and was a solicitor in Düsseldorf from 1919 till 1937. He became a full-time writer in 1937 when he moved to Berlin, which he left in 1941 to move to Bavaria. He took up law again from 1945 till 1948. He died on 25 August 1955 in Rottach-Egern. Spoerl wrote a number of humorous novels and comedies, most of which were made into films: Die Feuerzangenbowle, 1933 Wenn wir alle Engel wären, 1936 Der Maulkorb, 1936 Der Gasmann, 1940 Die Hochzeitsreise, 1946 Die weisse Weste, 1946 References Dtv Lexikon, Band 17, Munich 1970, p. 203 External links 1887 births 1955 deaths 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights 20th-century German male writers 20th-century German novelists German humorists German male dramatists and playwrights German male novelists Writers from Düsseldorf People from the Rhine Province