Hans Werner Olm
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His career began in 1975, when Olm travelled to Berlin
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to begin his comedy career in the city's clubs, striking a partnership in 1976 with Jürgen von der Lippe
Jürgen von der Lippe
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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
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. 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
7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald
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), the programme was dropped by RTL, in late 2004.
On the 15th of 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.
Awards
- 2004 - German Comedy Award - Best Comedy Show for „OLM!“
- 2005 - German Comedy Award - for the role of "Spliss" in 7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood , is a German comedy film, created in 2004 by Otto Waalkes, which follows the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by the Brothers Grimm....