Overview

• Schneider marked his 70th birthday on August 30 with an open‑air performance in Hamburg's Stadtpark in place of a private party.
• His new self‑portrait, The Klimperclown, co‑directed with longtime collaborator Sandro Giampietro, premiered at Filmfest München and is now in cinemas and the ARD Mediathek.
• The film draws on personal archives to present previously unseen material and was shaped to replace earlier portraits he found unsatisfying.
• A jazz‑driven improviser who plays roughly a dozen instruments, Schneider first broke through with the 1993 hit Katzeklo and a widely seen 1994 appearance on Wetten, dass..?.
• He is touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland with Ein Mann und seine Musik and has stated he rejects the use of artificial intelligence in his creative work.