The actor Carl Wallauer first finished an apprenticeship as a bank clerk and he worked several years in this profession afterwards.
Beside it he already took acting lessons.
During his stay in Berlin he got in touch with the film business and he impersonated first filmroles in 1918.
During World War I he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and from 1917 he also got engagements at the Lessing-Theater.
Besides his activity as an actor he campaigned for the "Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehöriger" from 1914 which lobbied for the social interests of theater workers. He was even the president of it from 1927 to 1933.
He made his stage debut at the Stadttheater in Colmar in 1899. Afterwards followed engagements in Hannover, Breslau and Cologne.
Ath those time he was not only active as a stage actor but he also realised some plays as a director.