Wrestling star from Dresden: “In the East I’m the good guy”

Axel Tischer delivers food in the morning and fights in the ring in the evening. The wrestler from Dresden is a star of the scene, was the first German in the USA – and is now performing in Coswig. Is it all just a show or serious sport?

He can be good and evil in the ring. Axel Tischer is one of the most famous German wrestlers. He now passes on his knowledge in his own school in Dresden.
© Marc Körner

Dresden/Coswig. It's not quite the rags-to-riches story. But Axel Tischer's life could have been very different. A boy from Dresden who grew up in a housing project, didn't care much for learning and left school after the ninth grade with a secondary school certificate. Without the big money.

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Wrestling star from Dresden: “In the East I’m the good guy”