Jörg Schneider (7 February 1935 â€" 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. 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. 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. 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.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 premierred 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.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.
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. 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. 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. 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.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 premierred 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.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.
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