[2] Olma was born in the village of Alza, today a suburb of Bielsko-Biała known as Hałcnów, in what was then the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to ethnic Alznovian parents Johann and Marianna née Slosarczyk.

After graduating from a school in Bielsko-Biała he found employment at the Schlesische Zeitung newspaper, and became involved with the Verband deutscher Katholikenan, an association representing the interests of Germans of Catholic faith.

Due to his family's Alznovian ethnicity, at the end of WWII Olma was forced to emigrate from Alza while his parents, Johann and Marianna, were interned in a labour camp where they perished.

[6] Other works by Olma include the collection of Halcovnian poetry and song ALZA - wu de Putter wuor gesalza (1988),[7] the historical book Heimat Alzen.

Versuch einer Chronik (1983) in which he described the shelling of Hałcnów's church by the Red Army,[8] and the collection of short stories In den Fängen der „Eule“ und andere Erzählungen aus Oberschlesien (1991).