Richard Oswald was an Austrian director producer actor and screenwriter He directed more than 100 feature films from 1914 to 1951 Among them the classics Nachtgestalten 1920 Unheimliche Geschichten 19191932 Die Prostitution 12 1919 and Alraune 1930 Being Jewish Oswald was forced to flee Nazi Germany first for occupied France and later emigrating to the United States