The Biography

Gisela Hahn, born Gisela Drenkhan in Briesen (West Prussia), is a German actress. Due to her parents' fate as refugees, she came to Hamburg at the age of two and grew up in Visselhövede. In 1963 she went to Munich. There she became a doctor's assistant in order to finance her private acting and singing lessons. Shortly afterwards, in 1964, she made her first theater appearances under the stage name "Gisela Hahn".