 Philipp Tischendorf was born on 7 June 1988 in Berlin, Germany.In 1994, he began attending the Werner-Seelenbinder-School in Berlin, a special school for sportsmen.His mother was a gymnast, his father played volleyball in the second highest league in East Germany, his brother Robert played football for BFC Dynamo Berlin, and his sister Nadine and brother Max practiced figure skating.