André Schneider

He wrote one of the first books that dealt with the Corona pandemic in Germany. It was released in May 2020.

At the 2019 Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, three of his films were shown: Bd. Voltaire (2017), Les fantômes (2018), and Frig (2018).

Voltaire (2017), Frig (2018), Les fantômes (2018) (co-starring Judith Magre and Sophie Tellier), and Sur les traces de ma mère (2016).

He had to drop out of Where Horses Go to Die (2016) due to scheduling conflicts.

Between 2015 and 2018, he established himself as a character actor in France with parts in movies like Bd.

In One Deep Breath (2014), a gloomy thriller co-starring Manuel Blanc and Stéphanie Michelini under the direction of Antony Hickling (an acclaimed genius of the art house genre), André created the part of Thomas Laroppe's concerned half-brother Adrian, and in Le cadeau (2013), a poetic short based on poetry by Pablo Neruda, he played Anton.

In addition to his movie work, his biography of B-movie actress Marisa Mell received rave reviews and became quite a success in 2013.

The movie fared surprisingly well, and so André reprised his part in what was little more than a cameo in its highly successful, multi-award winning successor, Männer zum Knutschen (2012). Still, working in droll German comedies left him dissatisfied and unhappy. "It was a dead-end career for me, I was desperate for new challenges," he later recalled.

In order to revive his movie career with fresh impulses, he began shooting his first French feature, Le deuxième commencement (2012) in late 2011.

A courageous move that proved to be a smart one: Le deuxième commencement (2012) became an immediate critical success in France, Spain, and Greece, allowing its writer-director-star to continue working in Paris.

Alex und der Löwe (2010), a gay romantic comedy with Marcel Schlutt, Sascia Haj, and Udo Lutz, was André's first film as a writer-producer-actor in almost three years. He played the title role of Alex, a 30-year-old Berlin-based man who clumsily stumbles from one relationship to the next.

He appeared in three movies with Sascia Haj: Half Past Ten (2008), Alex und der Löwe (2010), and Männer zum Knutschen (2012).

Biermann's ill-fated drama Glastage (2007) and did Der Mann im Keller (2008) with Nikolaus Firmkranz. The latter also became his directorial debut.

In 2006, André wrote, produced and starred in Half Past Ten (2008), based on a Marguerite Duras novel, directed by Sascha Bachmann and co-starring Kerstin Linnartz. Subsequently, he was cast in a string of (mostly unreleased) Spanish student films before he eventually decided to take a hiatus from the movies for almost two years, focusing on his theatre work instead.

In March 2005, he was in Madrid to co-star in a slasher movie called "Colgado de la luna" ("Hanging from the Moon") with Ariel Hernández and Greta Champreux. No evidence if the film was ever completed. Same goes for the movie "(Yo tengo un corazón que quiere hundir mi cuerpo en) los mares de ilusión", shot in summer 2005. That movie starred Santiago Nogales.

Both his first book, "Life is a Sexually Transmitted Disease", and the pop album "Lover's Space" came out in 2004, and after the release of Deed Poll (2004), which went on to become a cult favorite, André worked extensively in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Austria, and Belgium. In Germany, he worked as a writer-actor on Ingo J.

He founded his own production company, Vivàsvan Pictures, in 2003.

Unsuccessfully auditioned for parts in Die Another Day (2002), Herr Lehmann (2003), Beyond the Sea (2004), De-Lovely (2004), and Timecrimes (2007). He turned down the role in The Broken (2008) that eventually went to Damian O'Hare, and his scenes in Before You Go (2002) wound up on the cutting-room floor. He also turned down the lead in Amiga de los amores mal entendidos (2006) because he disliked the script.

One year later, he relocated to Berlin, and in 2001, he moved to London.

Between 1999 and 2002, he studied Ancient Indian Laguages (Sanskrit, Pakrit, and Hindi) and Indian Art History at the Freie Universität in Berlin.

In 1997, "Sleepless Cities", a multi-lingual one-man show with songs by Kurt Weill, Burt Bacharach, Jacques Prévert, and Tori Amos, started the career of the very ambitious André Schneider who would later enter the stage as a stand-up comedian, appear as an extra in movies by Peter Greenaway and Michael Caton-Jones, become a musician and writer and finally produce and direct his own feature films. At the age of twenty, he gave his stage debut in his hometown of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, co-starring with Michael Demuth in the enormously successful musical "Zoff".

In "Freaky Balls", he stated that the movie Without You I'm Nothing (1990) had saved his life as a teenager.

He once wrote that watching Kim Stanley's performance in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) was a life-altering experience for him and had changed his view on acting forever.