- Born
- Alexander Hahn was born on March 23, 1967 in Riga, Latvia (former USSR), to Olga Hahn, a textile specialist, and Waldemar Hahn, an X-ray engineer, tank commander, wrestling champion and passive dissident. Alexander left the Soviet Union together with his parents and his big family - ice-hockey trainer Georg Hahn (uncle), fish selling dancing queen Paula Hahn (grandmother), asthmatic railroad gardener Erwin Hahn (grandfather) and one-toothed Miriamija Zaikina (great-grandmother) - when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Bavaria, Germany. Alexander attended a language school in Munich for a year. He finally became a student at the Vienna Film Academy. At a film festival, he became an interpreter of the Latvian filmmakers Ivars Seleckis and Talivaldis Margevics. And a short time later he was able to shoot his first 35mm short feature film in Latvia. That was just before the Baltic states declared their independence from the Soviet Union. Alexander Hahn is a German citizen. He immigrated to Austria in 1989, graduated from the Vienna Filmacademy in 1996. His first feature film "Far Away From St. Petersburg" received 1993 the Gold Special Jury Award at the Houston International Film Festival and was shown at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles. Worked with: Maria DE Medeiros, Chulpan Khamatova, Dominique Pinon, Tobias Moretti, Orlando Wells, Birgit Minichmayr, Detlev Buck, Roland Düringer, Otto Grünmandl, Yevgenia Kryukova, Daniil Spivakovsky, Erni Mangold, Aurelija Anuzhite, Igor Klass, Gundars Abolins, Justin Krish, Jerzy Palacz, Milanka Comfort, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Reinhard Schwabenitzky, Hubert Sauper, Markus Pöchinger.- IMDb mini biography by: Anna Nymos
- SpouseJolanta Hahn(December 1, 2001 - October 17, 2016) (divorced, 2 children)
- Worked as a photo model in the 90's.
- Attended the 1993 AFI Fest in Los Angeles to promote his first feature film "Far Away From St. Petersburg". [June 1993].
- Father of Daniel R. Hahn and Maximilian W. Hahn.
- Attended the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in France. [May 2008].
- Attended the 2016 Berlinale Film Festival in Germany. [February 2016].
- I long time ago, when I was a child, I saw a little brown stick in the Baltic Sea. And, like a little dog, I swam after the stick. Only it was not a stick. It was a piece of shit. Shit happens ...
- "A heartwarming story."...This can often be read in film descriptions. Is "heartwarming" a synonym for "cheesy"? The only heartwarming story I would be interested in is a story about heart transplantation.
- It does not matter where it comes from, it's more important where it goes.
- I was in Vienna when the Berlin Wall was crumbling trying to learn how a 16mm-Bolex works.
- It's strange how many people are ashamed of their body and how few of their minds.
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