Werner Schneyder

He described himself as a Universaldilettant (all-round amateur).

The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Vienna. Employment is recorded with ZDF. Distinctions recorded are Decoration of Merit in Gold of the State of Vienna, Salzburg Bull Award and Bavarian Stand-up Comedian Award.

• Name — Werner Schneyder • Born — 25 January 1937 • Birthplace — Graz, Austria • Died — 2 March 2019 • Place of death — Vienna, Austria • Occupation — * Kabarett performer • Journalist • Writer • Actor • Theatre director • Television presenter • Sports reporter • Awards — * Johann Nestroy Ring • Bayerischer Kabarettpreis • Walk of Fame of Cabaret • Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

Schneyder was born in Graz. His father came from Vienna, and his mother from Karlsbad. He grew up in Klagenfurt. Schneyder studied publicism (Publizistikwissenschaft) and art history in Vienna from 1954, and worked at the same time as a freelance journalist for sports and local news, and as a singer in bars. After earning a PhD, he wrote for advertising agencies and was a dramaturge at the Salzburger Landestheater from 1962, then for the Landestheater Linz. He was a freelance writer from 1965, writing and directing radio features and working for newspapers. Schneyder lived in Vienna and at the Millstätter See. He was married to his wife Ilse from 1961 to 2005, when she died of cancer. Their son Achim (born in Salzburg in 1964) became a writer and journalist. Schneyder married Regine Bulling in Spittal an der Drau in 2011. Schneyder was found dead in his home in Vienna on 2 March 2019. He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, his ashes are buried in Vienna Central Cemetery.

In 1973, Kurt Weinzierl saw Schneyder, and recommended him as a partner for Dieter Hildebrandt, whose political kabarett Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft had been dissolved the previous year. They formed a duo in April 1974 and presented five programs in eight years: Talk täglich, Lametta & Co., Wie abgerissen, Keine Fragen mehr, Ende der Spielzeit. They performed together until 1982. They appeared once more in 1985, presenting in an already unstable GDR the program Zugabe Leipzig (Leipzig encore). • Illustration — Schneyder's star in the Mainz Walk of Fame of Cabaret, No. 60 Schneyder appeared a final time on 25 January 2017, his 80th birthday, playing Das war's von mir at the Akademietheater of the Vienna Burgtheater.

• Illustration — Schneyder in 2011, in a TV talk show with Markus Lanz Schneyder was a sports journalist from the time he was a student. When he worked in kabarett, he had contacts to the television station ZDF, resulting in a position as moderator of das aktuelle sportstudio from 1975. Beginning with the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he commentated on boxing at the Olympics on ZDF, also from the 1988 games in Seoul and the 1992 games in Barcelona. From 1992 to 1999, he commented on boxing for RTL. During his years with Hildebrandt, he was goalkeeper for the FC Schmiere, a football team of the kabarett, and small theatre scene of that time.

Recordings by Schneyder are held by the German National Library, including: • Talk täglich, with Dieter Hildebrandt. Telefunken 1975. • Private Lieder, Mandragora 1980. • Schlafen Sie gut, Herr Tucholsky! Alpha 1982. • Querschnitte aus fünf Programmen (1974–1982), with Hildebrandt. Musikant 1982. • Zeitgenossen, haufenweise. Werner Schneyder & Lore Lorentz singen Erich Kästner. Amaton 1984. • Live. Pläne 1985.

• Zeitgenossen, haufenweise. Werner Schneyder liest Erich Kästner. Preiser 1999. • Die Kabarettlegende 1: Talk täglich/Lametta & Co, with Hildebrandt. Preiser 1999. • Die Kabarettlegende 2: Wie abgerissen/Keine Fragen mehr, with Hildebrandt. Preiser 2000. • Die Kabarettlegende 3: Ende der Spielzeit, with Hildebrandt. Preiser 2000. • Reimzeit. Werner Schneyder liest Werner Schneyder. Preiser 2001. • Ich bin konservativ. Live aus der Leipziger Pfeffermühle. Chromart Classics 2012. • "Zugabe Leipzig". Auftritt in der Leipziger Pfeffermühle am 9. Januar 1985, with Hildebrandt. Herbig 2013.