Jörg Schneider (7 February 1935 – 22 August 2015) was a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions. He gained great renownedness in the German-speaking area by numerous Kasperle, Pumuckl and fairytale-radio plays records and also adapted plays for the Swiss German language.
Born in Zürich, canton of Zürich, in Switzerland, Jörg Schneider lived in the municipality of Wetzikon. For three years he attended the teacher training college, before he completed a commercial apprenticeship. At the age of 20, Jörg Schneider premiered at the Hirschen (in fact a restaurant) theater in Zürich as co-founder of the Cabaret Äxgüsi, and on occasion of the Saffatheater in the cabaret comedy Lysistrata in 1958.[1] Schneider started acting in the 1960s, getting popular in comedian-related rules, later also in radio plays and as stage actor and comedian, and was one of the most prominent Swiss German actors and comedians. For his lifetime work, Jörg Schneider was awarded with the Prix Walo 2013 in May 2014.[2] Yet end of January 2015, Schneider participated in Solothurn Film Festival at the premiere of his last movie Usfahrt Oerlike, while for the shooting in May 2014 Schneider did not know that he was suffering from liver cancer.[1][3] Jörg Schneider was one of the most popular actors of the German-speaking Swiss entertainment scene in comedy and boulevard theater, where he had up to 300 performances a year. He was considered a comedian with contagious enthusiasm.[4]
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Theateredit
Jörg Schneider (on the right) with Ines Torelli (in red), ca. 1963
Already while attending the teacher college, Jörg Schneider took acting classes and voice lessons. In 1955 he was co-founder of the cabaret "Äxgüsi" in Zürich, and in 1957 Jörg Schneider premiered at the Stadttheater Zürich as comedian. In 1960 he began working with Schaggi Streuli, whose radio and TV play Polizischt Wäckerli as "Hügü Vögeli" gained national notoriety in 1963. For the Theater am Hechtplatz he gained Swiss German-versions of Grimm's fairy tales in which he also starred, and in 1973 was honored with Ehrenpreis der Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Zürich, the top prize of the ministry of education of the Canton of Zürich. Between 1969 and 1971 he was permanent staff member of the municipal stage Heidelberg in Germany. Returned to Switzerland, Jörg Schneider played mainly on farces produced by Eynar Grabowsky for the Bernhard-Theater Zürich; the plays, including Der keusche Lebemann ("The chaste bon vivant") and Swiss German adaptations of Der Pantoffelheld ("The henpecked"), Der fidele Kasimir and Fünf im Doppelzimmer ("Five in a double room") were played 200-300 times throughout Switzerland. For the role of the taxi chauffeur in Schneider's own adaption Liebe macht erfinderisch of Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife, Jörg Schneider received the Bernhard Prix in 1985. Paul Bühlmann and Ines Torelli were Schneider's most frequent partners on stage for many years.[4]
In the 1990s Schneider mostly appeared along with Erich Vock in several with Vock self-produced farces and comedies, but he always returned to the classic comedy roles and serious roles: in 1972 in Zürich Nick Bottom (Zettel) in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and in 1980 alongside Ruedi Walter in the Swiss German adaption Warte uf de Godot (Waiting For Godot). At the Festival Bad Hersfeld Schneider received for his portrayal of Sancho Panza in Dale Wasserman's musical Mann von La Mancha the Bad Hersfeld Prize in 1985. Jörg Schneider embodied in 1991 the title role in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid, and in 1992 the role of Director Gross in D'Benachrichtigung, a Swiss German adaption of Václav Havel's Alert. In 1993/94 schneider toured again as Zettel (Nick Bottom ) and as the fool in the Twelfth Night on occasion of various open-air performances in Switzerland, and in 1999 the title role in a dialect edition of Miller's Death of a Salesman on stage at the Theater des Kantons Zürich.[4]
Voice acting and children's playsedit
Beside the stage, Jörg Schneider also is very popular in the German-speaking area by his Kasperle, Pumuckl and fairytale-radio plays records.[4][5] The Chasperli (Swiss German for "Kasperle") radio plays by Jörg Schneider – once again, many of the records in co-operation with Paul Bühlmann and Ines Torelli – belong to the children's culture in the German-speaking Switzerland since more than 40 years, and the records are still sold about 50,000 times a year, and to date approximately three million copies have been sold. Jörg Schneider also wrote about 40 Kasperle stories, directed and translated serious and tabloid pieces in dialect versions and wrote children's musicals. For Heidi, in 2002 he was awarded with the "fairy-tale-Oscar" S'Goldig Chrönli.[1]
Television and filmedit
In 1960 Jörg Schneider premierred in Wenn d'Fraue wähle, a Swiss German comedy. His best known television roles are probably the chef Koni Frei in the Swiss television series Motel[4] and as Oskar Wehrli from 2004 to 2006 in Lüthi und Blanc, but he also appeared in the popular Swiss television comedy Fascht e Familie in two episodes. In their last movie, the 2015 comedy Usfahrt Oerlike about a man who decided to commit suicide, Jörg Schneider starred alongside Mathias Gnädinger who died in April 2015.[6]
Deathedit
Schneider died of his serious illness – which had forced him in September 2014 to cancel his farewell tour Happi Änd as comedian – on 22 August 2015 at the age of 80;[1] one month before he told in an interview he had stopped the chemotherapy treatment. Äxgüsi!, an audio book with passages of his autobiography will be released posthum: although the shots were very tiring for him, the recording gave him a lot of joy, Jörg Schneider also told.[7] The funeral took place within the family; a public acknowledgment was celebrated at the Fraumünster church in Zürich on 26 September 2015.[8]
Jörg Schneider: Äxgüsi! : aus meinem Leben. Autobiography on occasion of Jörg Schneider's 80th birthday. Tudor Recording, Zürich 2015, ISBN978-3-037765-18-0; also as audio, read by Jörg Schneider, EAN: 7619911083441
Referencesedit
^ abcde"Jörg Schneider ist tot" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
^ ab"Ehren-Prix Walo" (in German). Retrieved 2015-04-05.
^"Usfahrt Oerlike" (in German). 10vor10. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
^ abcdefgh"Jörg Schneider" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
^Karl Baldinger (2015-08-22). "Archiv-Perlen: Die schönsten Jörg-Schneider-Momente" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
^"Jörg Schneider: "Gnädinger gehörte zur ersten Garde"" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 2015-04-05. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
^"Jörg Schneider hat seine Chemotherapie abgebrochen" (in German). Schweizer Illustrierte. 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
^Interview with Romy Schneider, G&F, SRF 1 on 24 August 2015.
^ (in German). solothurnerfilmtage.ch. 2015-01-29. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
^Sara Hildebrand and Nadia Maccagnan (2014-05-19). "Ehren-Prix-Walo für kranken Jörg Schneider" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
^"Sparten-PRIX WALO seit 1994" (in German). prixwalo.ch. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
Jörg Schneider on the website of the Swiss television SRF (in German)
January 01, 1970
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Jorg Schneider 7 February 1935 22 August 2015 was a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions He gained great renownedness in the German speaking area by numerous Kasperle Pumuckl and fairytale radio plays records and also adapted plays for the Swiss German language Jorg SchneiderJorg Schneider starring as Hans Hilfiker in Usfahrt OerlikeBorn 1935 02 07 7 February 1935Zurich SwitzerlandDied22 August 2015 2015 08 22 aged 80 Wetzikon SwitzerlandOccupation s Stage and film actor comedian and voice actorYears activesince 1955Notable workUsfahrt Oerlike 2015 Websitewww wbr joergschneider wbr ch in German Contents 1 Life 2 Work 2 1 Theater 2 2 Voice acting and children s plays 2 3 Television and film 3 Death 4 Awards excerpt 5 Filmography selected works 6 Literature 7 References 8 External linksLife editBorn in Zurich canton of Zurich in Switzerland Jorg Schneider lived in the municipality of Wetzikon For three years he attended the teacher training college before he completed a commercial apprenticeship At the age of 20 Jorg Schneider premiered at the Hirschen in fact a restaurant theater in Zurich as co founder of the Cabaret Axgusi and on occasion of the Saffatheater in the cabaret comedy Lysistrata in 1958 1 Schneider started acting in the 1960s getting popular in comedian related rules later also in radio plays and as stage actor and comedian and was one of the most prominent Swiss German actors and comedians For his lifetime work Jorg Schneider was awarded with the Prix Walo 2013 in May 2014 2 Yet end of January 2015 Schneider participated in Solothurn Film Festival at the premiere of his last movie Usfahrt Oerlike while for the shooting in May 2014 Schneider did not know that he was suffering from liver cancer 1 3 Jorg Schneider was one of the most popular actors of the German speaking Swiss entertainment scene in comedy and boulevard theater where he had up to 300 performances a year He was considered a comedian with contagious enthusiasm 4 Work editTheater edit nbsp Jorg Schneider on the right with Ines Torelli in red ca 1963 Already while attending the teacher college Jorg Schneider took acting classes and voice lessons In 1955 he was co founder of the cabaret Axgusi in Zurich and in 1957 Jorg Schneider premiered at the Stadttheater Zurich as comedian In 1960 he began working with Schaggi Streuli whose radio and TV play Polizischt Wackerli as Hugu Vogeli gained national notoriety in 1963 For the Theater am Hechtplatz he gained Swiss German versions of Grimm s fairy tales in which he also starred and in 1973 was honored with Ehrenpreis der Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Zurich the top prize of the ministry of education of the Canton of Zurich Between 1969 and 1971 he was permanent staff member of the municipal stage Heidelberg in Germany Returned to Switzerland Jorg Schneider played mainly on farces produced by Eynar Grabowsky for the Bernhard Theater Zurich the plays including Der keusche Lebemann The chaste bon vivant and Swiss German adaptations of Der Pantoffelheld The henpecked Der fidele Kasimir and Funf im Doppelzimmer Five in a double room were played 200 300 times throughout Switzerland For the role of the taxi chauffeur in Schneider s own adaption Liebe macht erfinderisch of Ray Cooney s Run for Your Wife Jorg Schneider received the Bernhard Prix in 1985 Paul Buhlmann and Ines Torelli were Schneider s most frequent partners on stage for many years 4 In the 1990s Schneider mostly appeared along with Erich Vock in several with Vock self produced farces and comedies but he always returned to the classic comedy roles and serious roles in 1972 in Zurich Nick Bottom Zettel in Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream and in 1980 alongside Ruedi Walter in the Swiss German adaption Warte uf de Godot Waiting For Godot At the Festival Bad Hersfeld Schneider received for his portrayal of Sancho Panza in Dale Wasserman s musical Mann von La Mancha the Bad Hersfeld Prize in 1985 Jorg Schneider embodied in 1991 the title role in Moliere s The Imaginary Invalid and in 1992 the role of Director Gross in D Benachrichtigung a Swiss German adaption of Vaclav Havel s Alert In 1993 94 schneider toured again as Zettel Nick Bottom and as the fool in the Twelfth Night on occasion of various open air performances in Switzerland and in 1999 the title role in a dialect edition of Miller s Death of a Salesman on stage at the Theater des Kantons Zurich 4 Voice acting and children s plays edit Beside the stage Jorg Schneider also is very popular in the German speaking area by his Kasperle Pumuckl and fairytale radio plays records 4 5 The Chasperli Swiss German for Kasperle radio plays by Jorg Schneider once again many of the records in co operation with Paul Buhlmann and Ines Torelli belong to the children s culture in the German speaking Switzerland since more than 40 years and the records are still sold about 50 000 times a year and to date approximately three million copies have been sold Jorg Schneider also wrote about 40 Kasperle stories directed and translated serious and tabloid pieces in dialect versions and wrote children s musicals For Heidi in 2002 he was awarded with the fairy tale Oscar S Goldig Chronli 1 Television and film edit In 1960 Jorg Schneider premierred in Wenn d Fraue wahle a Swiss German comedy His best known television roles are probably the chef Koni Frei in the Swiss television series Motel 4 and as Oskar Wehrli from 2004 to 2006 in Luthi und Blanc but he also appeared in the popular Swiss television comedy Fascht e Familie in two episodes In their last movie the 2015 comedy Usfahrt Oerlike about a man who decided to commit suicide Jorg Schneider starred alongside Mathias Gnadinger who died in April 2015 6 Death editSchneider died of his serious illness which had forced him in September 2014 to cancel his farewell tour Happi And as comedian on 22 August 2015 at the age of 80 1 one month before he told in an interview he had stopped the chemotherapy treatment Axgusi an audio book with passages of his autobiography will be released posthum although the shots were very tiring for him the recording gave him a lot of joy Jorg Schneider also told 7 The funeral took place within the family a public acknowledgment was celebrated at the Fraumunster church in Zurich on 26 September 2015 8 Awards excerpt edit2015 Solothurner Filmtage Won Publikumspreis Prix du public for Usfahrt Oerlike 9 2013 Prix Walo won Ehren Prix Walo 2 10 2002 S Goldig Chronli for the children s musical Heidi 1 1995 Sparten PRIX WALO for Schauspieler 11 1985 Bernhard Prix for Liebe macht erfinderisch Schneider s adaption of a play by Ray Cooney 4 1985 Bad Hersfeld Preis Sancho Panza in the musical Der Mann von La Mancha 4 1973 Ehrenpreis der Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Zurich for the Swiss German versions plays of Grimm s fairy tales 4 Filmography selected works edit1960 Wenn d Fraue wahle 1984 Motel 1996 1998 Fascht e Familie 2 episodes 2004 2006 Luthi und Blanc 120 episodes 2008 Happy New Year 2015 Usfahrt OerlikeLiterature editJorg Schneider Axgusi aus meinem Leben Autobiography on occasion of Jorg Schneider s 80th birthday Tudor Recording Zurich 2015 ISBN 978 3 037765 18 0 also as audio read by Jorg Schneider EAN 7619911083441References edit a b c d e Jorg Schneider ist tot in German Zurcher Oberlander 2015 08 22 Retrieved 2015 08 22 a b Ehren Prix Walo in German Retrieved 2015 04 05 Usfahrt Oerlike in German 10vor10 2015 01 22 Retrieved 2015 08 24 a b c d e f g h Jorg Schneider in German theaterwissenschaft ch 2013 12 05 Retrieved 2015 08 22 Karl Baldinger 2015 08 22 Archiv Perlen Die schonsten Jorg Schneider Momente in German Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF Retrieved 2015 08 24 Jorg Schneider Gnadinger gehorte zur ersten Garde in German Zurcher Oberlander 2015 04 05 Retrieved 2015 04 05 Jorg Schneider hat seine Chemotherapie abgebrochen in German Schweizer Illustrierte 2015 07 25 Retrieved 2015 08 22 Interview with Romy Schneider G amp F SRF 1 on 24 August 2015 PRIX DU PUBLIC 2015 Usfahrt Oerlike in German solothurnerfilmtage ch 2015 01 29 Archived from the original on 2015 09 24 Retrieved 2015 04 04 Sara Hildebrand and Nadia Maccagnan 2014 05 19 Ehren Prix Walo fur kranken Jorg Schneider in German Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF Retrieved 2015 08 25 Sparten PRIX WALO seit 1994 in German prixwalo ch Retrieved 2015 08 25 External links editOfficial website in German Jorg Schneider at IMDb Jorg Schneider on the website of the Swiss television SRF in German Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jorg Schneider actor amp oldid 1216636597, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
