Hans Olden(1892-1975)
- Actor
Hans Olden was an Austrian singer, stage and film actor. From 1909, he
studied acting in Vienna with Otto Rub. He worked as a singer and
Heurigenunterhalter. In 1911 he made his theater debut at the Deutschen
Theater in Hermannstadt and also played in Karlsbad, Teplitz-Schönau,
Graz and Prague (Cz.). From 1928 to 1938 he played at the Theater in
der Josefstadt and the Deutschen Volkstheater in Vienna. His first
movie was The Great Love (1931). Among his 73 movies he played with Elfriede Datzig
in Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (1940) ("My Daughter Lives In Vienna", "Ma Fille est millionaire")
(1940). He also worked for television and went back to the stage at the
Renaissance and Volkstheater in Vienna. He died after a long illness in
the house of his parents in Franzhausen.
