Helen Schneider

Helen Schneider

Born: December 23, 1952
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Helen Schneider (born December 23, 1952) is an American singer and actress working mainly in Germany.

Helen Leslie Schneider was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Dvora and Abraham Schneider. Schneider studied piano before forming her own blues band and playing in venues throughout New England and New York.

She has had a varied career in music, theater, recording, literature and film.

Between 1978 and 1984, she achieved success as a rock singer in Germany; her song "Rock 'n' Roll Gypsy" reached the top 10 record charts and she received a Gold Record Award and shared the Goldene Europa Award with John Lennon. In 1980 she toured with the German rock legend Udo Lindenberg. She played one of the leads in the 1983 film Eddie and the Cruisers, which has since gained a huge cult following, especially in Germany, where Schneider has name recognition.

In 1987, she began her theater career at the Theater des Westens in Berlin playing Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. From 1995 to 1998, she performed as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber. From 1999 to 2001, she performed as Eva Perón in the musical Evita at the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele. In 2014 she starred as Judy Garland in the European production of End of the Rainbow. She received enormous acclaim for her one-woman performance pieces: A Walk on the Weill Side, A Voice and A Piano, and Verwandlungen. In 2006 she received the DIVA – German Entertainment Prize for her lifetime achievements.

In 2007, Schneider returned to the recording business. She recorded three CDs with Edel Music. For "Dream a Little Dream" she received a golden CD award in jazz. In 2015, she signed with the independent record label SPV. She recorded her first original album in 30 years: "Collective Memory", with music composed by her guitarist, Jo Ambros, and lyrics written by her colleague and book co-author, Linda Uruburu. In 2017 this team followed up with Helen's latest album entitled: "Movin' On".

After a few successful Master Classes in 2018 Helen joined the teaching staff of Stage School Hamburg as a teacher of "Song Interpretation".

Source: Article "Helen Schneider" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Helen Schneider...

Into the Beat
Title: Into the Beat
Character: Frau Rosebloom
Released: July 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Katya is a young, outstanding and upcoming ballet dancer. In just a few weeks she is due to have a major audition for the New York Ballet Academy and Katya has good chances of getting a scholarship. But when she meets a group of street-dancers the girl dives into a completely new world.
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Title: Privatkonzert
Character: Self
Released: November 25, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 2010
Type: TV
The news program delivers captivating stories and informative insights on current topics in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Liebe macht sexy
Title: Liebe macht sexy
Character: Estelle Silver
Released: March 10, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Die ultimative Chartshow
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Das Duo
Character: Rebecca Perlmann
Released: March 16, 2002
Type: TV
Das Duo is a German television series.
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Title: 3satfestival
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Volle Kanne
Character: Self
Released: August 30, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Siska
Character: Joanne Flanders
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: TV
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska. Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, Russian television. Croatian Radiotelevision has however shown the series, despite 'Siska' having the same meaning in the Croatian language
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Title: Alpha Forum
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
Released: July 9, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Der Havelkaiser
Character: Hillary Kaiser
Released: April 4, 1994
Type: TV
Der Havelkaiser is a German television series.
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Mauritius-Los
Title: Mauritius-Los
Character: Anna Gradizzi
Released: February 6, 1991
Type: Movie
A comedy directed by Vivian Naefe.
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Title: Musik liegt in der Luft
Character: Self - Singer
Released: February 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: live - die ZDF-talkshow
Character: Self
Released: March 26, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Nachtcafé
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: ZDF-Fernsehgarten
Character: Self
Released: June 29, 1986
Type: TV
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Eddie and the Cruisers
Title: Eddie and the Cruisers
Character: Joann Carlino
Released: September 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
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Title: WWF Club
Character: self
Released: September 5, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Rock 'n' Roll Sports Classic
Title: Rock 'n' Roll Sports Classic
Released: May 3, 1978
Type: Movie
The first and final annual “Rock ‘N Roll Sports Classic” which puts some of the world’s biggest music stars in competition against each other.
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Title: Bio’s Bahnhof
Character: Self - Musician
Released: February 9, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: Auf los geht's los
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Title: Musikladen
Character: Self
Released: December 13, 1972
Type: TV
Der Musikladen was a West German music television programme that ran from December 13, 1972 to November 29, 1984. The show continued the 1960s Beat-Club under a new name, and in turn was replaced by Extratour.
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Title: Disco
Character: Self
Released: February 13, 1971
Type: TV
Disco was a pop music program that aired in Germany on the ZDF network from 1971 to 1982. It generally aired on the first Saturday of each month at 7:30PM, each show running 45 minutes. 133 shows were produced. The show was hosted by German actor and comedian Ilja Richter. Its lesser known predecessor on ZDF, 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet was aired between 1966 and 1970, presenters included Ilja Richter and Suzanne Doucet. Disco generally served a younger pop-oriented audience compared to ZDF's Hitparade, and until 1972, its main competitor was Beat-Club, followed by Musikladen, both on ARD. Repeats of Disco have been aired since 1984 on ZDF Musikkanal, after its closedown in 1989 on 3sat. Since 2004, the digital ZDF Theaterkanal aired repeats of the entire series. In 2007, ZDF Dokukanal began to air reruns, starting with episodes from 1975 and also multiple repeats of the series have been shown on hit24 in 2008. The show focussed on chart hits current at the time of airing, giving about equal airtime to international pop music and German Schlager. Despite its name, it did not particularly focus on disco music although it featured many disco hits as long as they were chart relevant..
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Margret Saloschnik
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Electric Child
Title: Electric Child
Character: Lydia
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A computer scientist bargains with the AI character that lives on a virtual island inside his supercomputer simulation, offering it freedom in exchange for a cure to his son's rare, deadly neurological disease.