Alexander Duszat was born in Berlin, but grew up and went to the school
in Hamburg. Later he became a television and radio technician for the
local television channel Hamburg 1, where he first appeared under the
nickname Elton, which was given to him due to his very similar
appearance to
Elton John. In February 2001 he became very famous as the
show intern on
TV total (1999) by a popular German entertainer
Stefan Raab. He went
on to start hosting his own show called
Elton.tv (2001) in December 2001, but
the show was canceled in March 2003.