Werner Schneyder

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Werner Schneyder with Markus Lanz (2011)

Werner Schneyder (born January 25, 1937 in Graz ; † March 2, 2019 in Vienna ) was an Austrian cabaret artist , author , actor , director , boxing referee and sports commentator .

Life

Werner Schneyder was born in Graz in 1937. His father came from Vienna, his mother from Karlsbad . He grew up in Klagenfurt "between the football field and the city theater". Schneyder studied journalism and art history in Vienna . In addition, he worked as a journalist and bar singer - as he did when he was at school. After receiving his doctorate in newspaper studies , he spent three years writing advertising texts.

By accepting a play, he was hired as a dramaturge at the Salzburg State Theater. After a year in Linz, he decided to work as a freelance writer. He wrote features and radio plays for radio , was also their director, wrote theater reviews and political daily poems for newspapers.

Werner Schneyder lived in Vienna and on Lake Millstatt in Carinthia. He was married to his wife Ilse for 43 years (1961-2004) until her death. The marriage resulted in son Achim (* 1966 in Salzburg), author and journalist. From 2011 he was married to Regine Bulling.

Schneyder died on March 2, 2019 in his apartment in Vienna. He was buried next to his wife Ilse on March 27, 2019 in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

cabaret

In 1973, an appearance with a cabaret reading in Salzburg for his friend Kurt Weinzierl became the occasion to recommend Schneyder to Dieter Hildebrandt as a partner to the star of the ensemble of the Munich laughing and shooting society , which had been dissolved the year before . An initially non-binding encounter developed after Schneyder's first volume of poems and aphorisms into the plan to found a cabaret duo. This started in April 1974 and showed five programs in eight years (Talk daily, Lametta & Co., How demolished, No more questions, end of season). In 1982 the couple separated, in order to get together again in 1985 for a significant guest performance in the GDR in terms of cabaret history (encore Leipzig) . Schneyder had already been to Leipzig twice with solo guest performances . Before the last duo program he had tried out a solo with a trio and then had, among other things, sentence by sentence, double cast, sober again, rejection and farewell evening follow.

In 1996 Schneyder stepped down from the cabaret stage. Twelve years later he returned with the I'm Conservative program . Its small theater version followed in 2011 (The Ultimate Solo). All duo and solo programs were broadcast on television after major tours through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, Schneyder tried again and again to bring literary-cabaret elements into new entertainment formats (salon, keyword, my guests and me) . On January 25, 2017, his 80th birthday, Werner Schneyder premiered his last program That was it from me in the Akademietheater of the Burgtheater Vienna.

literature

The literary path began with three paperbacks with political poetry and aphorisms. There was also a humorous novel: The Enterprises of Mr. Hans. A selection volume was created from the three paperbacks: Laughter before the end. This was followed by satires and volumes of short stories, a literary portrait of Erich Kästner - a useful author, two selected volumes of writing time and time play, the report on a theatrical work Meiningen or Liebe und das Theater, the volume of poems Reimzeit, the volume of essays Views of a Soloist, the self-portrait I, Werner Schneyder - my twelve lives, three years after the death of his first wife Ilse Krebs - a retelling. In addition to other volumes of stories, Werner Schneyder published the satire books Sometimes my opinions get on my nerves, but I have no other (2011) and Of someone who set out to become political. The story of an “opinion maker” (2014). Finally, there was a conversation between two eyes. Dialogue of a Life (2016).

Director

At the end of the 1980s Werner Schneyder was offered his first theater direction by the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz , the operetta Im Weißen Rößl . Operetta productions in Munich, Graz, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Bremen and Erfurt followed. In addition, he was always the director of the play. For example, he staged his version of The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt , at the Meiningen State Theater Das weite Land by Arthur Schnitzler with Christine Zart in the female lead, in Vienna, Villach and at the Comedy Festival Porcia authors such as Oscar Wilde, Georges Feydeau, Erich Kästner, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr, Felix Mitterer. In Bremen he brought God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza performed. He recently directed in Vienna at the Municipal Theater in Walfischgasse Betrayed by Harold Pinter and the State Theater Meiningen Le Dindon of Georges Feydeau . This was followed by Arthur Schnitzler's Porcia Anatol comedy plays .

play

As a stage actor he made his debut - again in partnership with Dieter Hildebrandt - in Neil Simons Sonny Boys ( Münchner Kammerspiele , guest performances in Berlin and Hamburg, tours and TV recording). He then wrote the satirical comedy Galanacht for himself , which was played 225 times in two productions (Berlin, Vienna). He dramatized the novel by Erika Pluhar. Excuse me, is this the end of the line? and also played their partner in guest performances at the Akademietheater and the Volkstheater in Vienna. Most recently he played Willy in Sonny Boys again at the Carinthian Komödienspiele in Porcia , this time under his own direction.

Song lyrics

Werner Schneyder wrote numerous chansons and translations for himself and for colleagues from the show industry (e.g. Marianne Mendt ). He also translated the lyrics of the musicals Funny Girl and Billy. His Jacques Brel adaptations, such as Amsterdam, Joe, The very last glass, sung by Michael Heltau , Hildegard Knef and others, received the greatest attention . The anger with which Lore Lorentz shone is young came from his pen.

Sports

Schneyder worked as a sports journalist while he was still at school. Long afterwards, through the cabaret, a contact was established with the ZDF , which from 1975 onwards led to the presentation of the current sports studio and in 1978 to the annual cabaret broadcast Das Ausfallene Sport-Studio , which he moderated seven times until 1990. From the Olympic Games in Los Angeles (1984), he initially commented on amateur and later professional boxing on television. As a long-time referee in amateur boxing and as a cabaret artist, he was able to use two of his skills at the same time. He demonstrated his continued interest in sport in general by occasional columns in a trade journal. During his duo years with Dieter Hildebrandt, he stood in the goal of FC Schmiere , the soccer team of the cabaret and small theater scene at that time.

Awards and honors

Werner Schneyder received the “ Johann Nestroy Ring ” of the City of Vienna (1981), the “ Mostdipf Prize ” (1983), the “ German Cabaret Prize ”, the “ Bavarian Cabaret Prize ” (honorary award, 2008), the “ Stern der Satire of the German Cabaret Archive ”(2008), the“ Salzburger Lebensstier ”(2010), the“ Great Merit Sign ”, the“ Golden Town Hall Man ”, the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (2012) and the Great Honorary Sign of the Province of Carinthia (2017).

Werner Schneyder's grave

His final resting place is in the Vienna Central Cemetery in a grave of honor (Group 33G, number 11) of the City of Vienna.

Publications

Sound carrier

LPs

  • Talk daily. With Dieter Hildebrandt . Telefunken, 1975.
  • Private songs. Mandragora, 1980.
  • Sleep well, Mr. Tucholsky ! Alpha, 1982.
  • Cross-sections from five programs (1974–1982). With Dieter Hildebrandt. Musician, 1982.
  • Contemporaries, loads of them. Werner Schneyder & Lore Lorentz sing Erich Kästner . Amaton, 1984.
  • Live. Plans, 1985.

CDs

  • Contemporaries, loads of them. Werner Schneyder reads Erich Kästner. Preiser, 1999.
  • The cabaret legend 1: Talk daily / Lametta & Co. With Dieter Hildebrandt. Preiser, 1999.
  • The cabaret legend 2: Like demolished / No more questions. With Dieter Hildebrandt. Preiser, 2000.
  • Cabaret Legend 3: End of Season. With Dieter Hildebrandt. Preiser, 2000.
  • Sonny Boys. With Dieter Hildebrandt. Preiser, 2001.
  • Rhyme time. Werner Schneyder reads Werner Schneyder. Preiser, 2001.
  • Sentimental. My songs. Preiser, 2004.
  • I am conservative. Live from the Leipzig pepper mill. Chromart Classics, 2012.
  • “Leipzig encore”. Appearance in the Leipziger Pfeffermühle on January 9, 1985. With Dieter Hildebrandt. Herbig, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Werner Schneyder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Werner Schneyder  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ abendzeitung-muenchen.de: Should I give my wife the lethal injection?
  2. ↑ Portrait of the author Achim Schneyder. In: Servus.Buch.at. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Werner Schneyder. Married for the second time. In: Bunte.de . September 27, 2011, accessed March 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Cabaret artist Werner Schneyder is dead. In: kurier.at . March 3, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ cabaret artist Werner Schneyder is dead. In: orf.at . March 3, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Werner Schneyder receives a grave of honor. In: orf.at. March 5, 2019, accessed March 9, 2019 .
  7. ^ Kurier: Funeral: touching farewell to Werner Schneyder . Article dated March 20, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019.
  8. ^ The grave of Werner Schneyder. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on August 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Willi Winkler: The cabaret artist and referee: To the death of Werner Schneyder. In: sueddeutsche.de . March 3, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 'That's it from me - Werner Schneyder'. In: burgtheater.at. January 25, 2017, archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 4, 2019 (announcement of the gala evening on the Burgtheater website).
  11. ^ Günter Kaindlstorfer: Success of Populists. “A terrible but forced reflex”. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Kulturfragen”. January 22, 2017, accessed on March 4, 2019 (report on Deutschlandfunk on Werner Schneyder's 80th birthday).
  12. ↑ a b Portrait of Werder Schneyder, Bayern 2 Radiothemen from January 17, 2017, accessed January 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schneyder, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH 2nd March 2019
Place of death Vienna