- Axel Ivers was born on June 6, 1902 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Parkstrasse 13 (1939), Spiel an Bord (1936) and Parkstraat 13 (1955). He died on October 23, 1964 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
- After the Second World War, he made a name for himself in Wiesbaden with productions of Gerhart Hauptmann's works, including Die Ratten (The Rats 1949), Hanneles Himmelfahrt (Hannele's Ascension (1951), and Rose Bernd (1952); but Ivers also directed other classics of world literature, such as Somerset Maugham's The Holy Flame and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan der Weise (Nathan the Wise).
- Ivers also worked in radio and film; he recorded his first radio broadcast in 1929.
- He was one of the most successful playwrights of his time; his crime play "Parkstrasse 13," which premiered in 1937, had already been performed by 162 German theaters by the end of 1938.
- Axel Ivers was a German actor, theatre director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator.
- He achieved great success with, among others, "Bob macht dich gesund", "Der Fälscher", "Spiel an Bord", "Der König von Uganda", "Zwei im Busch", "Das Herz der Dame", "Der Held seiner Träume" and above all with his bestseller "Parkstrasse 13" (1938), a crime play that was also made into a film.
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