Peter Schneider - Der Traum ist aus, .... Ein Rio Reiser-Abend

Admission: from 6:30 p.m.

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Singer of the revolt, actor, political rocker, art whore, voice of a generation, romantic, founding father of German pop music, hate preacher, pop singer, muse, drinker, best rock singer in the republic, "useless for the anti-imperialist struggle" - Rio Reiser was all of this (and much more) and yet not. Someone who never remained true to his role, but always true to himself. Someone who fought with his alter ego. An artist with an absolute urge to be on stage. Someone who lived and died there, only to rise again and again. Under mountains of ideological baggage and the consumption of the pop culture advertising machine. Between the iron monument to heroes and the colorful Bravo star cutout: who was this Ralph Christian Möbius from Traunreut in Upper Bavaria? This evening we want to look for him and either we will find him in his music or nowhere. Reiser about Reiser: "I am not a guru, not a politician, I can't say what to do. 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 song artist into a scenic night figure full of pain, heart and love for music.

Director: Uwe Bautz
Musical direction: Peter Schneider
Equipment: Hildegard Altmeyer
With: Peter Schneider, Julia Zabolitzki
Musicians: Georg Spieß, Andreas Schwaiger, Sascha Paul Stratmann, Melchior Walther

Peter Schneider, born in Leipzig in 1975, studied music after graduating from high school in 1995 and then studied acting from 1998 to 2002 at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig, where he graduated with a diploma.
Since then he has worked primarily as an actor, but also as a musician, composer and musical director at various theaters in Germany. Among others, he has worked at the Volksbühne Berlin, the HAU Berlin, the Schauspiel Leipzig, Chemnitz, Zittau and Rudolstadt, the TdjW Leipzig, the state theaters Schwerin and Karlsruhe, the theaters Heilbronn and Plauen-Zwickau and at the theaters in the cities of Halle, Gera and Altenburg.
Since an intensive collaboration with Edgar Reitz in 2001-2002 ("Heimat 3"), Peter Schneider has worked in over 100 film and television productions. For example, he played the leading roles in Philipp Kadelbach's remake of "Nackt unter Wölfen" (German Television Award "Best TV Film 2015") or in Hans Weingartner's highly acclaimed psychodrama "Die Summe meiner Einzel Teile". For this, Peter Schneider was nominated for the German Film Award (LOLA) in the category "Best Actor in a Leading Role" in 2012 and for the German Film Critics' Award in 2013. Also in 2013, Mareille Klein's film "Gruppenfoto", in which Peter Schneider plays the leading role, received the "Max Ophüls Prize 2013". In 2017, "Die Stille danach" and in 2018 "Königin der Nacht" (also with Peter Schneider in the leading roles) were nominated for the Grimme Prize. With the participation of Peter Schneider, the film "Kids Run" received the "German Actors' Award" for the best ensemble in 2020 and the improvisation film "Forever Summer 90" received the Grimme Prize and the German Television Award in 2021. Since 2021, Peter Schneider has been a police commissioner in Halle together with Peter Kurth. In 2022, the episode "Polizeiruf 110 - An der Saale hellem Strande" directed by Thomas Stuber was awarded "Best Film" at the Wiesbaden TV Crime Festival.

Peter Schneider is a member of the German and European Film Academy, the GDBA and the Ensemble Network.