Trivia

Via Essen and Koblenz he reached Berlin in 1909 and several years later he got in touch with the film business there.

His last sign of life comes from 1941.

He was very ill from 1932 till 1936, and he was unemployed since January 1938.

From the middle of the 10s followed numerous movies with Josef Coenen as an actor again but he also realised several movies as a director too.

In 1922 he founded his own production company and remained true to the film business till 1929. He failed to make it to the sound film era, the more so as a long lasting illness affected him highly.

The actor and director Josef Coenen took acting lessons by the actor Fritz Odemar senior and in 1905 he got his first stage engagement at the Stadttheater in Cologne. There he not only appeared as an actor but also directed some plays.