Martin Schneider

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This article is about the comedian. For the footballer, see Martin Schneider (footballer). For the German theologian and songwriter, see Martin Gotthard Schneider.
Martin Schneider
Schneider in 2009
Born
Martin Schneider

(1964-05-25) 25 May 1964 (age 60)
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Occupation(s)Comedian, cabaret artist, actor
Websitehttp://www.maddin.de/

Martin Schneider (born 1964 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe), often just called "Maddin", is a German comedian, cabarettist and actor.

Biography

Martin Schneider grew up in Burgholzhausen, a district of Friedrichsdorf.

Today he lives in Marburg. At first he did an internship at the Hessischer Rundfunk. That is where he first tried doing cabaret. 1990 he was given his first stage job. His first programme was "Gell, Sie sind spirituell?" (You're spiritual, aren't you?). Since 1992 he has appeared in Quatsch Comedy Club, which was still a theater in Hamburg at that time. Later he appeared in several TV shows such as RTL Samstag Nacht and had guest appearances in 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe (7 days, 7 heads) and Genial daneben (Ingeniously Off The Mark). He was cast member of Comedy Factory (1996/97) on ProSieben. Since 2004 Martin Schneider is best friends with Cordula Stratmann in Sat.1's improvisational comedy show Schillerstraße. Additionally he played the dwarf "Speedy" in the October 2004 big screen movie 7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald (7 Dwarves - Men Alone In The Woods) by Otto Waalkes alongside Otto Waalkes, Markus Majowski, Boris Aljinovic, Heinz Hoenig, Ralf Schmitz and Mirco Nontschew. The sequel "7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug (7 Dwarves - The Woods Are Not Enough)" was released in October 2006.

He is best known for his Hessian dialect. "Aschebeschär" ("Aschenbecher" in Standard German, ashtray in English) has become a dictum by Schneider. His characteristics are his quite distinctive face and his big mouth.

Martin Schneider released several compact discs ("Aschebeschär" (Ashtray), Sischär Is Sischär! ("Sicher ist sicher!" = What's sure, that's sure), "Raggae Mann", "Best Of Maddin") as well as the book "Im Bett mit Maddin" (In Bed with Maddin).

In 2016 and 2017 he played Hamm in the Berliner Ensemble theater production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame.

Martin has a twin sister named Martina.

His manager is Heidrun Buchmaier, companion of Bastian Pastewka.

Filmography

Awards

Literature

  • Martin Schneider, Heidrun Buchmaier: "Im Bett mit Maddin (In Bed with Maddin)", Kurschus & Zanolli 2003, ISBN 3-86507-042-6

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