Jörg Schneider (actor)
Jörg Schneider | |
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Born | Zürich, Switzerland | 7 February 1935
Died | 22 August 2015 Wetzikon, Switzerland | (aged 80)
Occupation(s) | Stage and film actor, comedian and voice actor |
Years active | since 1955 |
Notable work | Usfahrt Oerlike (2015) |
Website | www |
Jörg Schneider (7 February 1935 – 22 August 2015) was a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions. He gained great renownedness in the German-speaking area by numerous
Life
Born in
Work
Theater
Already while attending the teacher college, Jörg Schneider took acting classes and voice lessons. In 1955 he was co-founder of the cabaret "Äxgüsi" in Zürich, and in 1957 Jörg Schneider premiered at the Stadttheater Zürich as comedian. In 1960 he began working with Schaggi Streuli, whose radio and TV play Polizischt Wäckerli as "Hügü Vögeli" gained national notoriety in 1963. For the Theater am Hechtplatz he gained Swiss German-versions of Grimm's fairy tales in which he also starred, and in 1973 was honored with Ehrenpreis der Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Zürich, the top prize of the ministry of education of the Canton of Zürich. Between 1969 and 1971 he was permanent staff member of the municipal stage Heidelberg in Germany. Returned to Switzerland, Jörg Schneider played mainly on farces produced by Eynar Grabowsky for the Bernhard-Theater Zürich; the plays, including Der keusche Lebemann ("The chaste bon vivant") and Swiss German adaptations of Der Pantoffelheld ("The henpecked"), Der fidele Kasimir and Fünf im Doppelzimmer ("Five in a double room") were played 200-300 times throughout Switzerland. For the role of the taxi chauffeur in Schneider's own adaption Liebe macht erfinderisch of Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife, Jörg Schneider received the Bernhard Prix in 1985. Paul Bühlmann and Ines Torelli were Schneider's most frequent partners on stage for many years.[4]
In the 1990s Schneider mostly appeared along with Erich Vock in several with Vock self-produced farces and comedies, but he always returned to the classic comedy roles and serious roles: in 1972 in Zürich
Voice acting and children's plays
Beside the stage, Jörg Schneider also is very popular in the German-speaking area by his
Television and film
In 1960 Jörg Schneider premierred in Wenn d'Fraue wähle, a Swiss German comedy. His best known television roles are probably the chef Koni Frei in the Swiss television series Motel[4] and as Oskar Wehrli from 2004 to 2006 in Lüthi und Blanc, but he also appeared in the popular Swiss television comedy Fascht e Familie in two episodes. In their last movie, the 2015 comedy Usfahrt Oerlike about a man who decided to commit suicide, Jörg Schneider starred alongside Mathias Gnädinger who died in April 2015.[6]
Death
Schneider died of his serious illness – which had forced him in September 2014 to cancel his farewell tour Happi Änd as comedian – on 22 August 2015 at the age of 80;[1] one month before he told in an interview he had stopped the chemotherapy treatment. Äxgüsi!, an audio book with passages of his autobiography will be released posthum: although the shots were very tiring for him, the recording gave him a lot of joy, Jörg Schneider also told.[7] The funeral took place within the family; a public acknowledgment was celebrated at the Fraumünster church in Zürich on 26 September 2015.[8]
Awards (excerpt)
- 2015: Solothurner Filmtage: Won Publikumspreis (Prix du public) for Usfahrt Oerlike.[9]
- 2013: Prix Walo, won Ehren-Prix Walo.[2][10]
- 2002: S'Goldig Chrönli for the children's musical Heidi.[1]
- 1995: Sparten-PRIX WALO for Schauspieler.[11]
- 1985: Bernhard Prix for Liebe macht erfinderisch, Schneider's adaption of a play by Ray Cooney.[4]
- 1985: Bad Hersfeld-Preis, Sancho Panza in the musical Der Mann von La Mancha.[4]
- 1973: Ehrenpreis der Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Zürich for the Swiss German-versions plays of Grimm's fairy tales.[4]
Filmography (selected works)
- 1960: Wenn d'Fraue wähle
- 1984: Motel
- 1996–1998: Fascht e Familie (2 episodes)
- 2004–2006: Lüthi und Blanc (120 episodes)
- 2008: Happy New Year
- 2015: Usfahrt Oerlike
Literature
- Jörg Schneider: Äxgüsi! : aus meinem Leben. Autobiography on occasion of Jörg Schneider's 80th birthday. Tudor Recording, Zürich 2015, ISBN 978-3-037765-18-0; also as audio, read by Jörg Schneider, EAN: 7619911083441
References
- ^ a b c d e "Jörg Schneider ist tot" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
- ^ a b "Ehren-Prix Walo" (in German). Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ "Usfahrt Oerlike" (in German). 10vor10. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Jörg Schneider" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
- ^ Karl Baldinger (2015-08-22). "Archiv-Perlen: Die schönsten Jörg-Schneider-Momente" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- ^ "Jörg Schneider: "Gnädinger gehörte zur ersten Garde"" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 2015-04-05. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ "Jörg Schneider hat seine Chemotherapie abgebrochen" (in German). Schweizer Illustrierte. 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
- ^ Interview with Romy Schneider, G&F, SRF 1 on 24 August 2015.
- ^ "PRIX DU PUBLIC 2015: Usfahrt Oerlike" (in German). solothurnerfilmtage.ch. 2015-01-29. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
- ^ Sara Hildebrand and Nadia Maccagnan (2014-05-19). "Ehren-Prix-Walo für kranken Jörg Schneider" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
- ^ "Sparten-PRIX WALO seit 1994" (in German). prixwalo.ch. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
External links
- Official website (in German)
- Jörg Schneider at IMDb
- Jörg Schneider on the website of the Swiss television SRF (in German)