Helge Schneider

Helge Schneider (born 30 August 1955 in

Despite his success with comedy music, Schneider is also a recognised jazz musician. He learned to play the piano as a child and taught himself numerous instruments in his youth.^[2]

In addition to several music albums, Schneider has also published audiobooks and radio plays.

Discography

Music albums

• 1987: The Last Jazz
• 1989: Seine größten Erfolge (“His greatest hits”)
• 1990: New York, I’m Coming
• 1992: Guten Tach (“Hello there”)
• 1993: Es gibt Reis, Baby (“We’re gonna have some rice, baby”)
• 1995: Es rappelt im Karton (“Rumble in the cardboard box”)
• 1997: Da Humm!
• 1998: Helge 100% live – The Berlin Tapes (live album)
• 1999: Eiersalat in Rock (“Egg salad in rock”, released as Helge and the Firefuckers)
• 1999: Jazz (& Hardcore)
• 2000: Hefte raus – Klassenarbeit! (live album; “Workbooks out – exam time!”)
• 2003: Out of Kaktus! (Songs aus dem Kaktus) (“Songs from the cactus”)
• 2004: Füttern verboten (live album; “Please don’t feed”)
• 2007: I Brake Together (a complex German-English wordplay: The German expression for “I am collapsing” (“Ich breche zusammen”) can be literally translated as “I break (not: brake) together”)
• 2007: Akopalüze Nau (live album; parody of Apocalypse Now)
• 2013: Sommer, Sonne, Kaktus (“Summer, sun, cactus”)
• 2014: Live at the Grugahalle – 20 Jahre Katzeklo (Evolution!) (live album)
• 2017: Heart Attack No. 1 (feat. Pete York)
• 2019: Partypeople (beim Fleischer) (“Partypeople (At the Butcher)”)
• 2020: Mama
• 2021: Die Reaktion – The Last Jazz, Vol. II
• 2023: Torero
• 2023: Live in Graz (live album)

Other recordings

• 1991: Hörspiele Vol. 1 (1979–1984) (radio plays)
• 1992: Hörspiele Vol. 2 (1985–1987) (radio plays)
• 1998: Martin, sein Vater und die vertraute Stimme (radio play; “Martin, his father and the familiar voice”)
• 1999: Liest: Eiersalat – Eine Frau Geht Seinen Weg (audiobook; “Reads: Egg salad – A woman goes his way”, the wrong pronoun is intentional)
• 2004: Mendy – Das Wusical
• 2004: Aprikose Banane Erdbeer (audiobook; “Apricot banana strawberry”)
• 2005: Globus Dei – Vom Nordpol bis Patagonien (audiobook; “From the North Pole to Patagonia”)
• 2007: Die Memoiren des Rodriguez Faszanatas (audiobook; “The memoirs of Rodriguez Faszanatas”)
• 2009: Bonbon aus Wurst (“Sweet made from sausage”)
• 2011: Satan Loco

Filmography

As director and actor

• 1982: The Privatier (not published)
• 1987: Stangenfieber (Stick fever)
• 1993: Texas – Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem (Texas – Doc Snyder sets the world aghast)
• 1994: 00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter (00 Schneider – The hunt for Nihil Baxter)
• 1996: Praxis Dr. Hasenbein (Dr. Hareleg's Practice)
• 2004: Jazzclub – Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm (Jazzclub – The early bird catches the worm)
• 2013: 00 Schneider – Im Wendekreis der Eidechse (The Tropic of Gecko)

As actor

• 1986: Johnny Flash as Johnny Flash
• 1991: Manta – Der Film as himself
• 1994: Felidae as Jesaja (voice only)
• 1996: Kleines Arschloch as Alter Sack (voice only)
• 1999: Käpt’n Blaubär – Der Film (voice only)
• 2004: 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood as “The White (or Wise) Helge”
• 2004: Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 (singing)
• 2006: Das kleine Arschloch und der alte Sack – Sterben ist Scheiße as Alter Sack (voice only)
• 2006: 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough as “The White (or Wise) Helge”
• 2007:
  Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler
  as Adolf Hitler
• 2009: Die PARTEI as himself
• 2020: Die Känguru-Chroniken as fitness coach

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Helge Schneider.

• Official website
• Helge Schneider at
  IMDb
• Review vom Helge Schneider Konzert in Berlin, 4. April 2010
• Helge Schneider at laut.de (in German)