- He worked as an author and he published several works in magazines. Moreover he also translated stage plays into German.
- In the year of his death, his play ( Das Gelübde) = The Vow, set in the Capuchin monastery in Passau-Mariahilf, was premiered in Munich with Hermine Körner and Wilhelm Dieterle.
- To his promoters belonged also Frank Wedekind.
- His last screenplays came in the second half of the 10s into being for "Mutter und Kind" (1916), "Die Stricknadeln" (1916), "Der verkaufte Schlaf" (1916), "Unheilbar" (1917) and "Gräfin Vera" (1920).
- His play "The vicarage comedy" (die Pfarrhauskomödie) with Lucie Höflich was first staged in Berlin in 1920. In addition to 200 performances in Berlin, it was shown on more than 100 German-speaking stages.
- He joined the film business in 1912 where he wrote the screenplays for several movies.
- His artistic career was interrupted by World War I for a brief time when he was used as a telegraphist.
- When his great pattern Frank Wedekind died in 1918 Heinrich Lautensack suffered a mental breakdown on his burial. He filmed the funeral fiercely and screaming. Subsequently he was delivered to the insane asylum Eberswalde. He did not recover from the breakdown and died only one year later at this asylum.
- The author and screenwriter Heinrich Lautensack first studied mathematic to become a geometrician. He ended his study untimely and he dedicated to the cabaret "Die elf Scharfrichter" where he soon wrote his first own plays.
- Heinrich Lautensack was married with the actress Dora Harnisch alias Dora Stratton and with the singer Betty Eisner.
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