Axel Block

Since 1974, Block has worked as director of photography on more than a hundred cinema and television productions, and lectured on film composition at several academies.

He began his collaboration with the WDR in 1974 on the feature No Reason to Worry, which reinforced his decision to pursue a career as a cinematographer.

In the following years, Block continued working for television studios; he filmed When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit directed by Ilse Hofmann [de] and the Auf Achse series.

In 1981, Block was nominated a principal cinematographer for Tatort: Duisburg-Ruhrort [de] thriller, in which Horst Schimanski, a detective chief inspector, made his first appearance.

Subsequently, Block was involved in the production of six more Tatort movies, three episodes of the Schimanski crime series from 1987 to the late 1990s, and a cinema film The Crack Connection [de] in 1987.