Helen Schneider

Helen Schneider

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, 1952-12-23

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	Rock 'n' Roll Sports Classic		0
2	1983	Eddie and the Cruisers	Joann Carlino	66
3	1991	Mauritius-Los	Anna Gradizzi	0
4	2009	Liebe macht sexy	Estelle Silver	70
5	2020	Into the Beat	Frau Rosebloom	64
6	2025	Electric Child	Lydia	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Scene of the Crime	Margret Saloschnik	61
2	1970	Scene of the Crime	Forensic Pathologist	61
3	1970	Scene of the Crime	Edda Bingley	61
4	1971	Disco	Self	0
5	1972	Musikladen	Self	0
6	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
7	1977	Auf los geht's los	Self	0
8	1978	Bio’s Bahnhof	Self - Musician	0
9	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
10	1980	WWF Club	self	60
11	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
12	1982	Vorsicht, Musik	Self	0
13	1986	ZDF-Fernsehgarten	Self	15
14	1987	Nachtcafé	Self	47
15	1987	live - die ZDF-talkshow	Self	0
16	1991	DAS!	Self	42
17	1991	Musik liegt in der Luft	Self - Singer	0
18	1994	Der Havelkaiser	Hillary Kaiser	85
19	1994	alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio	Self	50
20	1996	Zimmer frei!	Self	63
21	1998	Alpha Forum	Self	0
22	1998	Siska	Joanne Flanders	75
23	1999	Volle Kanne	Self	44
24	2000	3satfestival	Self	63
25	2002	Das Duo	Rebecca Perlmann	60
26	2003	Die ultimative Chartshow	Self	50
27	2003	ZIBB	Self	0
28	2010	Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz	Self	0
29	2017	Privatkonzert	Self	0

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