Axel was born in Salzburg.
He studied dance and voice at Point Park College Pittsburgh USA. His credits include performances with Pittsburgh Playhouse Dance Company and „Best of Disney“ at Disney World Florida. He performed in several productions of Vereinigte Bühnen Vienna such as the German Premiere of „Grease (Ens., Eugene, J.Casino), European Premiere of Disney`s „Beauty and the Beast“ (Salt, Gaston, Beast), World Premiere of Roman Polanski`s „Dance of the Vampires“ (Ens., Graf von Krolock) and Walter Bobbie`s „Chicago“ (Aaron, Billy Flynn).
With the hit musical „Chicago“ Axel made his West End debut at the Adelphi Theatre in London as „Fred Casely“ and also made his way to Theater des Westens in Berlin.
Other credits include:
„West Side Story“ at Bregenzer Festspiele,
Landestheater Linz (Riff) and at the Summer Festspiele in Amstetten,
Bobby Child in „Crazy for You“ at Grazer Oper and Landestheater Linz,
Phantom in "Phantom of the Oper" (European Tour),
"Best of Musicals" (Tour),
"A Tribute to Abba" (Tour),
Joe DiMaggio in "Marilyn" (Schauspielhaus Hamburg),
Player in "Pippin" and Dancer in "Razzle Dazzle" (Pittsburgh Playhouse/ Original Fosse Choreography)
Fred in "Oklahoma" (Pittsburgh Playhouse) "The Wiz" (Dancer),
Ubazz in "Avenue X" (Kammeroper Vienna),
"Nutcracker" (Arabien),
"Jazz Nutcracker" at Pittsburgh Playhouse.