- He had no problem with the transition to the sound film and he continued his film career successfully till to the end of World War II.
- His film Eight Girls in a boat (1932) won the Gold Medal at the Venice Film Festival.
- He dedicated to the director and he realised many movies as a director from 1925. For some of them he was also responsible as a screenwriter and producer.
- Erich Waschneck was not able to continue his former success after the war.
- He came in contact with the film industry in 1907 when he began to paint posters for films.
- Erich Waschneck was married with the actress Karin Hardt.
- The director Erich Waschneck first studied painting at the art academy in Leipzig before he entered the film business as a poster artist at the age of 20. Later followed engagements as a still photographer before he stepped into the active process of creating a movie as a cinematographer assistant of Fritz Arno Wagner.
- His last cinematical works came as a screenwriter into being with "Jenny" (1958).
- He became a cinematographer himself in 1921 and he was regularly active behind the camera.
- Erich was the son of Karl Hermann Waschneck, a blacksmith, and his wife Therese Emilie, née Schneider.
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