Axel Prahl (born 26 March 1960 in

Eutin Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. I ...

) is a German

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

and musician. Prahl, born in Eutin, grew up in nearby

Neustadt in Holstein Neustadt in Holstein (; Holsatian: ''Niestadt in Holsteen'') is a town in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on the Bay of Lübeck 30 km northeast of Lübeck, and 50 km southeast of Kiel. History In World War I ...

. After his A-levels, Prahl started studying music and mathematics, but then went on to acting school in

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. His acting debut came in 1994 in a television series for

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

. Aside from his film acting, for which he has won several accolades including two Adolf Grimme Awards, Prahl has starred in 23 episodes of the German television crime series ''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by ...

''. Prahl also co-starred in the 2009 German TV film '' 12 Winter'' with

Jürgen Vogel Jürgen Peter Vogel (; born 29 April 1968, in Hamburg) is a German actor, screenwriter, film producer and singer. One of the most successful character actors in German cinema, he first broke out in 1992 with his role in '' Little Sharks''.Jürgen ...

. The cine films '' Nightshapes'' (1999) and ''

Grill Point ''Grill Point'' is a 2002 German drama film directed by Andreas Dresen. Its original German title is ''Halbe Treppe'', which means "Halfway up the Stairs" in English, and was the real-life name of the snack bar shown in the film. ''Grill Point'' ...

'' (2002) marked the start of a continuous successful cooperation with director

Andreas Dresen Andreas Dresen (born 16 August 1963) is a German film director. His directing credits include '' Cloud 9'', '' Summer in Berlin'', ''Grill Point'' and ''Night Shapes''. His film '' Stopped on Track'' premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at ...

which harvested some renown awards. Aside of being a popular actor he started as a sideline a music career, releasing three albums (2011, 2013 and 2018) as a singer-songwriter and bandleader. From 2007 on Prahl hosted annually the two days summer music festival ''Inselleuchten'' at

Marienwerder, Brandenburg Marienwerder is a municipality in the district of Barnim in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. Every summer, since 2004, in mid-July a two-day music festival called ''Inselleuchten'' takes place in Marienwerder. From 2007 on the popular actor and ...

. He speaks English and Spanish quite fluently. Axel Prahl is married and lives with his third wife in

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, and he has got four grown-up children, one of them an actress.

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* 1960 births Living people People from Eutin People from Ostholstein German male television actors German male film actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors {{Germany-screen-actor-stub