Mario Schneider

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Mario Schneider (born May 5, 1970 in Neindorf , Oschersleben ) is a German director, author, film composer and photographer who, among other things, worked as a documentary filmmaker (primarily through the films of the MansFeld trilogy and nudes ) and his extensive film musical oeuvre got known.

Life

Mario Schneider was born in Neindorf in the Magdeburg Börde , he grew up in Helbra in the Mansfeld region. From 1986 to 1989 he completed vocational training as a metallurgist for metallurgical engineering with a high school diploma in the Mansfeld Combine .

From 1992 he first studied musicology , philosophy and art history in Halle (Saale) , followed by composition and piano studies at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig from 1994 to 1997. In 1998, Mario Schneider went to Munich to study there on the one hand to study film composition at the music college, on the other hand to start working in the Red Deer Studio and working with Harold Faltermeyer . During this time, the artist was already taking on major composition commissions, for example for the series The King of St. Pauli and his work for Die Pfefferkörner, which continues to this day .

After graduating as a film composer and returning to Halle, he founded the film production company 42film GmbH and began working as a documentary filmmaker and director. With a series of documentaries, Schneider gained national and international attention. In particular, the films in the MansFeld trilogy (2005, 2008 and 2013), the fictional short film The Second Gift (2009) and Nude (2015) received widespread attention and were shown at many festivals in Germany and abroad. The film Uta about Uta Pilling (who was also involved in act ) is in production.

In 2014 Schneider's first book, the short story collection The Woman of the Beautiful Man , was published as a print and audio book by Mitteldeutscher Verlag. His image-text volume Tourist with photographs and three stories will also be presented there in spring 2020 .

Mario Schneider has a daughter and lives in Halle. He has been a member of the Academy of the Arts Saxony-Anhalt since 2019 .

Filmography as a director

  • Helbra , documentary film, 70 min, 2005.
  • The Last Guest , documentary, 65 min, 2007.
  • Heinz and Fred , documentary film, 80 min, co-produced by Arte and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , 2008.
  • The second gift , short film (fictional), 15 min, 2009.
  • MansFeld , documentary film, 98 min, co-produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 2013.
  • Act , documentary film, 100 min, coproduced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 2015.
  • Uta , documentary film, 86 min, in cooperation with Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 2020 (in production).

Film music (selection)

  • The King of St. Pauli (Germany), director: Dieter Wedel , TV series ( SAT.1 ), together with Harold Faltermeyer, 1998.
  • Die Pfefferkörner (Germany), TV series for children ( Norddeutscher Rundfunk ), since 1999 - 200 episodes so far.
  • Der Mistkerl (Germany), directed by Andrea Katzenberger , TV feature film for children ( ZDF ), 2000.
  • The Christmas Wolf (Germany), directed by Matthias Steurer ( RTL ), 2001.
  • Typisch Ed (Germany), directed by Franz Peter Wirth , children's animation film (ZDF), 2001.
  • Mask under Mask (Germany), director: Markus Goller , feature film, 2003.
  • The Hollies (Germany), directed by Matthias Steurer, TV feature film for children ( KiKA ), 2003.
  • 4 gegen Z (Germany), directed by Klaus Wirbitzky and Andrea Katzenberger, TV series for children, Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( Studio Hamburg ), 2004–2008, 41 episodes.
  • Unrequited Love (Great Britain) Director: Christopher Petit , Feature film, 2005.
  • Krimi.de TV series for children (Norddeutscher Rundfunk / KiKA), 2005–2008.
  • The Trap (Serbia / France / Hungary / Germany), director: Srđan Golubović , feature film, 2007.
  • Heinz and Fred (Germany), directed by Mario Schneider, documentary film, together with Cornelius Renz , 2008.
  • The Orange Girl (Norway / Spain / Germany), director: Eva Dahr , feature film based on a story by Jostein Gaarder , 2008.
  • Belgrad Radio Taxi (Serbia / Germany), director: Srđan Kolević , feature film, 2010.
  • MansFeld (Germany), director: Mario Schneider, documentary film, 2012.
  • Circles , (Serbia / Germany), director: Srđan Golubović, feature film, 2013.
  • The Petrov File (Belgium / France / Germany), feature film, director: Georgi Balabanov , 2015.
  • Leopard, Seebär & Co. (Germany), documentary series (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), since 2016 - so far more than 40 episodes.
  • The peppercorns and the curse of the black king (Germany), director: Christian Theede , feature film, 2017.
  • Tierärzte (Germany), documentary series ( ARD ), 2018–2019, 30 episodes (in production).
  • Father (Serbia / Germany / France), director: Srđan Golubović, feature film, 2019.
  • The Report (Slovakia / Poland / Czech Republic / Germany), director: Peter Bebjak , feature film, 2020 (in production).
  • One more day in Baghdad (France / Germany), director: Maysoon Pachachi , feature film, 2020 (in production).
  • The peppercorns and the treasure of the deep sea (Germany / Ireland), director: Christian Theede, feature film, 2020 (in production).

Book publications

  • The beautiful man's wife , short stories, Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2014.
  • The beautiful man's wife , audio book, read by Udo Schenk , Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2014.
  • Tourist , photographs, with texts by Maike Wetzel , Jule Reckow and Mario Schneider, Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2020.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uta (website for the documentary by the production company 42film GmbH). Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, author, film composer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Neindorf , Oschersleben