Overview

• Thousands of fans gather today for the open-air birthday performance in Hamburg’s Stadtpark.
• The multi-instrumentalist built a five-decade career across music, comedy, film and books, with improvisation as his hallmark and the 1993 hit Katzeklo as his breakthrough.
• The Klimperclown premiered at Filmfest München and blends documentary passages with staged elements, leaving fact and fiction deliberately blurred.
• The film draws on previously unseen family photos and footage while excluding material already available online.
• Schneider remains on the road with Ein Mann und seine Musik across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and he has publicly rejected AI in art on environmental grounds.