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Helge Schneider
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German entertainer
OverviewAI-generated
Helge Schneider is a German actor, film director, pianist, and jazz musician born in Mülheim an der Ruhr on August 30, 1955. He works in the fields of music, acting, cabaret, and film direction, and is represented by the copyright organization GEMA. Schneider speaks German and performs on the piano, guitar, trumpet, and saxophone.
His musical output spans the genres of jazz, comedy, and kabarett. He is also an author with ten listed works, including titles such as *Aprikose, Banane, Erdbeer, Globus Dei*, *Die Memoiren des Rodriguez Faszanatas*, and *Das scharlachrote Kampfhuhn*. Additional works include *Kommissar Schneiders letzter Fall* and *Der Mörder mit der Strumpfhose. Kommissar Schneider wird zum Elch*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30. August 1955
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Aprikose, Banane, Erdbeer
- Globus Dei
- Die Memoiren des Rodriguez Faszanatas
- Das scharlachrote Kampfhuhn. Kommissar Schneiders letzter Fall
- Der Mörder mit der Strumpfhose. Kommissar Schneider wird zum Elch
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Helge Schneider is a German musician, entertainer, comedian, cabaret artist, writer, film and theater director, and actor. He rose to fame through stage performances in which he combines slapstick and parody with jazz music.
Known for
- Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod — Self2026
- The Klimperclown — Self2025
- Hallervorden - Didi gegen den Rest der Welt — Self2025
- Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf — Self - Narrator (voice)2024
- Loriot 100 — Self2023
- Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence — Self (archive footage)2020
- The Kangaroo Chronicles — Fitnesstrainer2020
- Maischberger — Self2019
- Chez Krömer — Self2019
- Bestes Kabarett! — Self2019
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1955
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 134,794
- Total plays
- 3,261,692
Tags
Helge Schneider (born August 30, 1955 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German comedian, jazz musician, author, film and theatre director, and actor. After dropping out of high school, he started an apprenticeship as a construction draftsman. He soon changed plans and was admitted to the Duisburg conservatoire to study piano, after passing an entrance exam for particularly gifted applicants (it later turned out that his diploma was invalid since he dropped out of high school too early). <a href="htt
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Helge
- Family name
- Schneider
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- singing
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- double bass
- Official website
- helge-schneider.de
- Image
- Helge Schneider (22-03-2026) (cropped).png
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Helge Schneider
- date of birth
- 1955-08-30
- Commons gallery
- Helge Schneider
- name in native language
- Helge Schneider
- copyright representative
- GEMA
- official shop URL
- shop.helge-schneider.de
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Helge Schneider, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
