Daniel Ernst was born in Germany in 1992. He has a younger brother, Mike, who works as a Cinematoprapher, too. As a young child Daniel attended drawing classes, which helped him to sharpen his visual abilities. Later he took his fathers camcorder to shoot first short films with friends. Daniel attended film school in Dortmund, Germany in 2015. It was there that he met the actor @Marcel Becker-Neu with whom he later worked in the web-series "Wishlist".