Hans Werner Olm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Hans Werner Olm

German comedian

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1955

Place of Birth: Bochum, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Profession: actor, singer, columnist, dub actor, cabaret artist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Hans Werner Olm

  • Hans Werner Olm (Born Hans Olm, 1 February 1955 in Bochum) is a German television and film comedian.His career began in 1975, when Olm travelled to Berlin to begin his comedy career in the city's clubs, striking a partnership in 1976 with Jürgen von der Lippe among others, known as the Gebrüder Blattschuss.
  • In the following years he furthered his career as a standup comedian on a variety of television programmes, alongside German celebrities such as Mike Krüger and Gabi Decker. Hans Werner Olm worked in a minor film roles, such as Die Supernasen 1982 with Krüger and fellow comedian Thomas Gottschalk and 1983's Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza.
  • His roles developed from small bit-parts to larger, more noticeable performances, such as in the comedy Schrott - Die Atzenposse. In April 2002, he began his own television programme OLM! on the channel RTL.
  • The characters which he brought to the small screen, including the failed ladykiller Paul Schrader and masculine yet clumsy Luise Koschinsky, led him to claim notoriety as a celebrity in German-speaking countries and to be recognised with the 2004 German Comedy Award.
  • Despite his apparent success, and appearing in one of the most successful films of the year (7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald), the programme was dropped by RTL, in late 2004. On 15 January 2006, Hans Werner Olm began a new programme on ProSieben Olm unterwegs (Olm on the Way).
  • The familiar characters from his previous series returned, with the addition of Gunther Terbrüggen and Bademeister Bernd.

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