Singer of the revolt, actor, political rocker, art whore, voice of a generation, romantic, founding father of German pop music, hate preacher, schlager singer, muse, drunkard, best rock singer of the republic, "unusable for the anti-imperialist struggle" – that was all (and much more) Rio Reiser, and yet again not. One who was always true to himself but never to his role.
One who fought with his alter ego. An artist with an unconditional urge for the stage. One who lived and died there, to rise again and again. Under mountains of ideological burdens and the consumption of the pop cultural advertising machinery. Between an iron hero monument and a colorful bravado cutout: Who was this Ralph Christian Mobius from Traunreut in Upper Bavaria? On this evening, we want to search for him, and either we find him in his music or nowhere. Reiser about Reiser: “I am no guru, no politician, cannot say where to go. Nonsense! I tell fairy tales, stories,
folk songs.”
The Leipzig actor and musician Peter Schneider approaches one of his great role models in his own way and transforms the poetry of the unforgettable songwriter into a scenic night figure full of pain, heart, and love for music.
Director: Uwe Bautz
Musical direction: Peter Schneider
Set design: Hildegard Altmeyer
With: Peter Schneider, Julia Zabolitzki
Musicians: Georg Spieß, Andreas Schwaiger, Sascha Paul Stratmann, Melchior Walther
Peter Schneider, born in Leipzig in 1975, completed a music degree after graduating from high school in 1995 and from 1998-2002 a drama degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig, graduating with a diploma. Since then, he has been active mainly as an actor, but also as a musician, composer, and musical director at various theaters in Germany. Among other places, he has worked at the Volksbühne Berlin, HAU Berlin, Schauspiel Leipzig, Chemnitz, Zittau, and Rudolstadt, TdjW Leipzig, the state theaters in Schwerin, Karlsruhe, theaters in Heilbronn, Plauen-Zwickau, and the stages of the cities Halle, Gera, and Altenburg.
Since an intensive collaboration with Edgar Reitz from 2001-2002 (“Heimat 3”), Peter Schneider has worked in over 100 film and television productions. For example, he played the lead roles in Philipp Kadelbach's remake of "Naked Among Wolves" (German Television Award "Best Television Film 2015") as well as in Hans Weingartner's highly acclaimed psychological drama "The Sum of My Individual Parts". For this, Peter Schneider was nominated in 2012 for the German Film Award (LOLA) in the category "Best Acting Performance Male Lead" and in 2013 for the German Film Critics' Award. In 2013, Mareille Klein's film “Group Photo”, in which Peter Schneider plays the lead role, won the “Max Ophüls Prize 2013”. In 2017, “The Silence After” and in 2018 “Queen of the Night” (with Peter Schneider in the lead roles) were nominated for the Grimme Prize. Involving Schneider, the film “Kids Run” won the “German Acting Prize” for best ensemble in 2020 and the improvisational film “Forever Summer 90” won the Grimme Prize and the German Television Award in 2021. Since 2021, Peter Schneider has been a police commissioner in Halle alongside Peter Kurth.
In 2022, the episode “Polizeiruf 110 - On the Bright Banks of the Saale” directed by Thomas Stuber was awarded "Best Film" at the Wiesbaden Television Crime Festival. In 2023, the feature film “What You Can See From Here” with Peter Schneider in a lead role received the “Hessian Film Award” for “Best Ensemble”. In 2024, Peter Schneider, along with Sascha Nathan and Peter Kurth, received the special prize of the Televisionale for outstanding acting performance in Polizeiruf 110 “The Fat One Loves”.
Peter Schneider is a member of the German and European Film Academy, GDBA, and the Ensemble Network.
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