Jörg Schneider (actor)

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Jörg Schneider (approx. 1963)

Jörg Schneider (born February 7, 1935 in Zurich ; † August 22, 2015 in Wetzikon ) was a Swiss actor .

biography

Before starting his acting career, Schneider completed a teacher training course and initially worked as a commercial clerk. He then went to an acting school to train.

Since 1958 he has been a full-time actor. His career began when he appeared in a TV version of Pünktchen and Anton . From 1963 Schneider was seen together with Vico Torriani in hit parades. From 1974 to 1979 he played a detective in live crime thrillers on SF DRS . He then concentrated on the stage work at the theater, where he was still 70 years old and presented himself to the audience in Dure bi rot (2005). He also played the main role Koni Frei in the television series Motel from 1984 . After 2004, after a break of more than ten years, Schneider was seen again on a program on Swiss television. In the soap Lüthi und Blanc he played the accountant Oskar Wehrli. In 2007 he starred in the film Ameisenweg . In 2008 he played in the film Happy New Year by Christoph Schaub Herbert, who embarks on a nightly odyssey on New Year's Eve.

Jörg Schneider (right) with Olga Gebhard, Peter W. Staub and Ines Torelli (seated), around 1963

Together with Ines Torelli and Paul Bühlmann , for example, he played in Bibi Balù and wrote 41 radio play versions of Kasperli's adventures between 1967 and 1976 , creating a classic of the Swiss children's fairy tale set to music. These fairy tales, spoken in Swiss German, have sold around three million times. With Paul Bühlmann he also set stories by Meister Eder and his Pumuckl in dialect to music. He wrote fairy tale games for the Zurich Fairy Tale Theater and wrote and staged children's musicals for the Zurich Opera House with the composers Hans Moeckel and Emil Moser .

In 1981 Schneider played alongside Ruedi Walter in the role of Vladimir in Urs Widmer's dialect version, Warte uf de Godot . In 2004/05 he played Pseudolus in the musical Toll, the old Romans did it by Stephen Sondheim . In 2015 the film Usfahrt Oerlike , in which Jörg Schneider plays a leading role, received the audience award at the Solothurn Film Festival .

In September 2014 it became known that Jörg Schneider was seriously ill and will not return to the stage. The second part of his farewell tour Häppiänder has been canceled. He died of a liver tumor on August 22, 2015.

Jörg Schneider had been married since 1963 and lived in Wetzikon in the Zurich Oberland . His son died in 2010 at the age of 46.

Filmography (selection)

Honors

On the occasion of the 40th Prix ​​Walo , Jörg Schneider was presented with the Honorary Prix ​​Walo on May 18, 2014.

In order to keep an honorable memory of its famous city dweller, the city council of Wetzikon ZH renamed the Tödipark to Jörg Schneider Park on October 23, 2016.

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The popular folk actor Jörg Schneider is dead . On: SRF.ch, accessed August 22, 2015
  2. ↑ Geri Krebs: 50th Solothurn Film Festival: The night belonged to the boys . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 29, 2015. Accessed January 31, 2015.
  3. ^ Jörg Schneider is terminally ill with Swiss television
  4. ↑ Peter Hossli, Fibo Deutsch: “Yes, that's how it is now”. Interview in: SonntagsBlick from October 5, 2014
  5. ↑ Jörg Schneider has lost his son. In: Swiss television , broadcast glanz & gloria on June 27, 2010 (video)
  6. ↑ Prix ​​Walo for Bligg, Bastian Baker and Beatrice Egli Tages-Anzeiger online, article from May 18, 2014
  7. ↑ Zürcher Oberländer , article from September 24, 2016. Accessed September 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2015
Place of death Wetzikon