Rio Reiser: Der Traum ist aus aber …

In the organizer's words:

A musical text collage with Peter Schneider and band

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 of the republic, "useless for the anti-imperialist struggle" - Rio Reiser was all of this (and much more) and yet not at all. Someone who never remained true to his role, but always true to himself. Someone who fought with his alter ego. An artist with an unconditional urge to be on stage. Someone who lived and died there, only to rise again and again. Under mountains of ideological legacy and the consumption of the pop-cultural advertising machine. Between the iron hero monument and the colorful Bravostar cut: Who was this Ralph Christian Möbius from Traunreut in Upper Bavaria? On this evening we want to look for him and either we find him in his music or nowhere. Reiser on Reiser: "I'm not a guru, I'm not a politician, I can't tell you where to go. Bullshit! 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 unforgotten songwriter into a scenic nocturnal figure full of pain, heart and love of music.

Peter Schneider, born in Leipzig in 1975, studied music after graduating from high school in 1995 and from 1998-2002 studied acting at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theater in Leipzig, from which 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. He has worked at the Volksbühne Berlin, the HAU Berlin, the Schauspiel Leipzig, Chemnitz, Zittau and Rudolstadt, the TdjW Leipzig, the state theaters Schwerin, Karlsruhe, the theaters Heilbronn, Plauen-Zwickau and the theaters of the cities Halle, Gera and Altenburg.

Since his intensive collaboration with Edgar Reitz in 2001-2002 ("Heimat 3"), Peter Schneider has worked in over 80 film and television productions. For example, he played the leading roles in Philipp Kadelbach's remake of "Nackt unter Wölfen" (German Television Award "Best Television Film 2015") and in Hans Weingartner's highly acclaimed psychological drama "Die Summe meiner einzelnen Teile". Peter Schneider was nominated for the German Film Award (LOLA) in the category "Best Acting Performance by a Male Lead" 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 Preis 2013". In 2017, "Die Stille danach" and in 2018 "Königin der Nacht" (also starring Peter Schneider) were nominated for the Grimme Prize. With Peter Schneider's participation, the film "Kids Run" received the "Deutscher Schauspielerpreis" for best ensemble in 2020 and the improv film "Für immer Sommer 90" was awarded the Grimme Prize and the German Television Prize in 2021.

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

www.peter-schneider.tv

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