Biography

Only rarely - especially since the beginning of the 1930s - did he receive a permanent engagement at a theater such as the Berlin venues Großes Schauspielhaus (1930/31) or Das Theater der Jugend (1938/39).

Throughout the 1930s, Erich Harden was a busy actor on the screen: sometimes playing a consul or a club member, sometimes a dancer, a doctor, or even a factory owner. However, from 1940 onward, Erich Harden received no further film offers.

Erich Harden was a German stage and film actor.

During the Second World War, Harden returned to touring theatre with guest performance agencies, but also performed at provincial theatres in eastern Germany (from 1942 to 1944 in Graudenz and Marienburg). His post-war career was largely limited to an engagement at the Neukölln Theatre in Berlin. He died soon after at the age of 63.

The corpulent artist, who stood only 1.70 meters tall and in his later years was typecast as a character actor, comedian, and pères nobles, appeared on screen at an early age. In the winter of 1913/14, he acted alongside the Danish film star Asta Nielsen in the comedy Zapata's Gang, but then, interrupted by the First World War, he did not resume his film career until 1919. After that, in the middle of the first decade of the 20th century, he began a somewhat unremarkable life as a minor actor, performing as a guest artist on touring stages.