Hans Ahrens (actor)

Hans Ahrens (* early 1869 in Rostock , German Reich ; † January 6, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German actor in the stage and film industry.

Live and act

Ahrens began his stage career in 1891 at the city theater of his hometown Rostock and played for the next 37 years, initially mainly in the field of bon vivants , later also in roles of set characters, at theaters in Mainz, Erfurt, Stettin, Breslau and Posen. Even before the outbreak of World War I , Ahrens had accepted a call to Berlin and played in the German capital at the Central Theater and the New Theater , and during the war also at the Front Theater. Ahrens also went on tour several times .

Active in front of the camera very early on, Ahrens was seen several times in leading roles in early silent films, but over the years increasingly in mostly smaller supporting roles. The artist was hardly active in sound film. Hans Ahrens died shortly before his 69th birthday.

Filmography

• 1913: The heroine of St. Honorée
• 1915: bread!
• 1915: a gift of love
• 1915: The sons of Count Steinfels
• 1916: Who shouldn't die ...
• 1916: The raspberry dish
• 1916: Amanda, the wise shepherd girl
• 1918: The Mousetrap
• 1918: Wrong money
• 1919: Unique
• 1919: The wandering eye
• 1919: The seduced
• 1920: The Land of Promise
• 1920: Colonel Chabert
• 1921: wrongly good
• 1922: The woman with the ten masks
• 1922: The virtuous dancer
• 1930: The other
• 1935: The seeds are growing

literature

• Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, year 1939, p. 109 (obituary)

Web links

• Hans Ahrens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hans Ahrens at filmportal.de