Josef Michel Dischel (24 August 1909 – 11 May 1984), known by his adopted stage name Peter Sturm, was an Austrian and an East German actor.

[2] He then decided to become an actor, and began taking drama lessons from renowned Austrian performer Raoul Aslan.

Sturm eventually served eighteen months, in the Stein an der Donau prison[2] and in the Wöllersdorf detention camp.

In August, he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp,[2][8] where he was held in the same barrack with actor Fritz Grünbaum.

On 27 June 1941, shortly after France surrendered to Germany, the camp's residents were to be evacuated on a train to Bayonne.

[a 2] With several other fellow actors from the theater, Sturm left Vienna and emigrated to the German Democratic Republic, settling in East Berlin.

[15][16] In 1960, he performed the role of August Rose, a Buchenwald prisoner who betrays his friends, in a television production based on Bruno Apitz's novel Naked Among Wolves.

[14] Sturm had a long career as an actor with DEFA and DFF in East Germany, appearing in more than fifty cinema and television productions.