The Austrian cabaret artist, presenter and author Werner Schneyder is dead. Schneyder, who had worked for the ZDF as a sports commentator, has died, according to his family at the age of 82 years.
As a satirist Werner Schneyer took decades for the conditions in politics, economy and society. More than 1000 performances on stages in Austria and Germany and working as a sports commentator, among other things, to Boxing matches, and in the “Current sports Studio” in the ZDF, made Schneyder.
Now the Austrians died at the age of 82, according to the news Agency dpa learned from circles of schney, the founder of the family. Previously, several Austrian media reported.
breakthrough with Dieter Hildebrandt
born in Graz with a doctorate in journalism was first as a Local sports reporter and advertising copywriter. A little later he worked in Salzburg as a theatre playwright and also wrote theatre criticism, before he moved to turn the pages and even as a comedian on the stage.
in Most cases, he pursued his interests in parallel, was also the author and cabaret artist, actor, and aphorist, or a Director and screenwriter. At times he wrote columns in men’s magazine “Playboy”. Around 20 books he has written. He described himself as a “universal dilettante”.
the breakthrough in The German television and cabaret audiences managed Schneyder, especially through his appearances at the Munich “Lach – und schieß society”. Together with Dieter Hildebrandt, he scolded like full of their complacency on the policy. The first joint program “Talk every day” was in 1974, a great success. “It was a political kinship,” said Schneyder over the years, with the 2013 deaths of Hildebrandt.
Schneyder fit in any drawer
Schneyder saw himself politically as a lot of color. “I am in some respects conservative to the core, in other deep green, across the Board liberal and socially very left,” he once said. With this attitude, he found a lot of material for books and stage performances.
Schneyder published up to the last article about the cultural and political conditions, especially in Austria. Also as a TV host, he was asked. In the Austrian Federal presidential election in 2016, he railed against the FPÖ candidate Norbert Hofer and stand clearly on the side of the green-middle winner Alexander Van der Bellen.
He criticized but also keen on Islam: “De jure, it is a Religion that seeks world domination,” he said. The often out of political correctness, well maintained tolerance to this Religion he thought was wrong.
Avid fan of Opera
The soft side of the satirist came to the fore when he was at his performances for the singer. Under the title “That’s me” he presented in 2017, his best cabaret numbers in an updated Version, and many songs. “In the second half, I sing love songs. This is the other Schneyder,” the artist said at the time, at the start of the program.
Schneyder gathered full of enthusiasm, pictures and was a great fan of Opera. This music genre he saw, however, threatened. Therefore, he translated the texts in the respective language of the audience. Adaptations could be much better than the Italian, French, Russian original, he believed.
cabaret artist Dieter Hildebrandt 20.11.2013 Atlas |Austria |Vienna
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