Axel Ranisch (born 30 June 1983 in East Berlin) is a German actor, film and television director and author.
Ranisch spent his childhood in Berlin-Lichtenberg. He studied theatre pedagogy in Flecken Zechlin until 2004. From 2004 to 2011 Ranisch studied at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Ranisch works as a film and theatre director, and as an actor in different film, theatre and TV productions in Germany. Ranisch shot the film Pink Children (2012) with 4 other German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim. In 2018, he published and authored the book Nackt über Berlin. In 2016, he married his partner Paul in Berlin.