[4] After roles in over one hundred silent films, Albers starred in the first German talkie Die Nacht gehört uns (The Night Belongs to Us) in 1929.

Soon thereafter, Albers played big-mouthed strong man Mazeppa alongside Marlene Dietrich in her star-making classic Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel).

Albers himself shot to fame in 1930 with the movie The Copper and constantly enhanced his star status with similar daredevil roles in the 1930s.

Hansi Burg went to Switzerland and then to Great Britain in 1939, but they secretly remained a couple with him even managing to send her financial support.

[4] In 1943, Albers was paid a huge sum of money to star in UFA's big-budgeted anniversary picture Münchhausen but was careful not to give the impression that he was endorsing the National Socialist regime, which was indeed never asked of him.

The sailing ship Padua used for the outdoor scenes of the film has survived under Soviet and Russian flag until this day as Kruzenshtern.

After World War II Albers was affluent and, on account of his association with Hansi Burg, he avoided the professional ban and financial plight which many actors were facing at that time.

[4] Hans Albers collapsed during a theater performance with massive internal bleeding[6] and died months later on 24 July 1960 at a sanatorium in Kempfenhausen near Lake Starnberg at the age of 68.

Hans-Albers-Platz, one block south of the Reeperbahn, features a statue of Albers, created by the German artist Jörg Immendorff.