Joe Bausch was born on April 19, 1953 in Ellar, Limburg, Hesse, West Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Heldt (2013). He has been married to Kirsten since 1986. They have one child.
After studying drama, politics, German language and jurisprudence at the University of Cologne and Marburg, he finally graduated in medicine from the Ruhr University in Bochum.