He wrote his biggest success in 1925, the crime comedy "Hokuspokus".
Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writers of his time in the German-speaking world.
His mother remarried, and his stepfather encouraged and financed his first steps in the theatre.
Curt Goetz began his acting career at the theater where he got first engagements in 1907. From 1911 he also wrote successfully plays which were also filmed in later years.
In 1939 he went to Hollywood to study film-making. He worked with the director Reinhold Schunzel, among others, and several of his comedies were turned into films.