The idea for this collaboration was born at this year’s Löwenkinder e.V. summer festival in Frankfurt/Oder. Löwenkinder e. V. runs a competence center for children suffering from very serious and life-shortening illnesses - a project with which both Schulz and the Ernst Prost Foundation are involved. Kerstin Thiele was there to deliver a donation from the foundation. “I thought this was a really great gesture so after we met, I offered to get something going together”, says Axel Schulz. It was a welcome offer. “We didn’t have to spend much time thinking about it,” says Kerstin Thiele. The two quickly agreed that Schulz would act as an ambassador for the Ernst Prost Foundation. “Axel Schulz is a popular celebrity and an absolutely genuine personality – so that makes him the perfect ambassador,” says the foundation manager. “Generating donations is hard work. Axel Schulz’s charisma and fame will be a great help and he will be able to provide welcome support. A former star of the boxing ring, Schulz became established as a leading celebrity athlete in Germany. He hung up his boxing gloves for good a long time ago, but still enjoys a round of golf – to raise money for charity whenever possible, and he helps in other ways, too. “I’ve been very lucky in my life and I’d like others to benefit who are less fortunate than myself, especially children,” says Schulz, who is himself a father of two. He’s more than happy to support both large and small projects. “Every child in need is worth the effort.”

He is only 25 years old, but already takes a lot of responsibility on the ice and off the smooth surface. We are talking about Marcel Noebels, who is storming for the Eisbären Berlin in the DEL, Germany's highest hockey league, and who also skates for the German national team, including at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. There and in Berlin he is one of the never-ending assets.