After the war, he worked in the promotion department of the Ullstein publishing empire designing their billboard advertisements.
The screenplay was written by Wolf Neumeister and Hans Bertram after a novel of the same title by Nicola Rohn that had been published at Ullstein publishing house in 1937.
Leopold Ullstein (1826–1899), founder and publisher of several successful German newspapers
In 1924 Wolfgang von Weisl launched a career as the representative of Ullstein, the lucrative publication house, to the Near East and the Islamic countries.
In Germany, Bonnier Media Deutschland includes Ullstein Buchverlage, Piper Verlag, Thienemann Verlag and Carlsen Verlag, among others.