Heinz Werner Schneider

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Heinz Werner Schneider (born August 26, 1947 in Steinheim , Höxter district , † August 26, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German scene restaurateur , filmmaker and painter .

Life

Heinz Werner Schneider grew up in Duisburg and completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic after school . At the end of 1966 he was obliged to do military service , after which he prematurely ended up moving to Berlin-Charlottenburg .

In the mid-1970s, Heinz Schneider opened the left-wing alternative, at the same time home-style, trendy pub Hundekehle in the street of the same name in Berlin-Grunewald . Heinz die Hundekehle respectfully called him insiders and regulars such as Ulrich Schamoni , Ingo Insterburg , Manfred Krug , Armin Mueller-Stahl , and under this title Schneider also sang provocative songs on record. He, his later business partner Jochen Bott and their restaurant embodied the unmistakable entertainment brand in the West Berlin celebrity spectrum between Paris Bar , Exil and Schlosshotel Gehrhus ; The dog throat was the first port of call for dissidents from the east of the city .

At the same time, but especially after the residents were forced to close the Hundekehle in the early 1980s , Schneider (fat Heinz) worked as a recording and production manager, and sometimes as an assistant director for television and cinema productions. These included TV series such as Die Drombuschs , Eurocops , Praxis Bülowbogen , Drei Damen vom Grill and feature films such as Dr. M , 1990 directed by Claude Chabrol , 1992 mother at 16 , directed by Horst Kummeth , or ADAM , 2001 by Christoph Stark . For major US projects in Berlin such as Wild Geese II , 1985, directed by Peter Hunt, Shining Through , 1992, directed by David Seltzer and Duell - Enemy at the Gates , 2001, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud , he was responsible for the motif Production management and extensive logistics for equipment and cast.

His friendship with actors and directors, especially Wolfgang Staudte , occasionally led Schneider in front of the camera. For example, he had a short appearance as Gelke in the Tatort episode Nice Weekend , slipped into a kilt for the Berlin home improvement chain Wand & Boden and advertised Scottish cost awareness in it, or he played the noisy plumber in Otto - The Love Film. After the music clip production: Achtung Baby , for U2 in the early 90s, singer Bono Heinz Schneider titled : “ You're a man, man! ”(German:“ You're a real guy! ”).

In the phases between his catering companies such as Beiz in Schlüterstrasse, Schneiders at the Opera , Flugangst am Halensee and the film projects, the autodidact drew and painted . Under the pseudonym Schackow , Heinz Werner Schneider created around 250 oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and collages as well as 32 large-format paintings and triptychs . Because of their size, they were roped down for sales and exhibitions over the balcony of the studio in Schneider's old Charlottenburg apartment.

Schneider's cardiac death on his 59th birthday left behind his wife Esther with their 13-year-old son Maximilian and a clueless circle of friends. In the obituary of the Tagesspiegel , Thomas Loy describes Heinz Werner Schneider as a person with the rousing conviction that he will never doubt that he will be able to do anything. In his film Der Tag (2008), which is narrated in twelve stanzas, Uli M Schueppel also thematizes poetically the sudden and unexpected departure of Heinz Schneider from a life that was previously overfulfilled.

Heinz Werner Schneider's grave is on Luisenfriedhof II in Berlin's Westend .

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SURNAME Schneider, Heinz Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schackow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scene restaurateur, filmmaker and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinheim , Höxter district
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2006
Place of death Berlin