Peter Schneider (actor)


Peter Schneider is a German actor and musician.

Biography

Schneider was born in 1975 in Leipzig, in what was then East Germany. From 1985 until the late 1990s, he studied at a music school in Halle. After graduating from high school in 1994 and completing his military service, he studied music at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater from 1995 until 1998. He specialized in the clarinet and saxophone, while at the same time taking German studies and pedagogy at Leipzig University. In 1998, he switched to studying drama at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater, from which he graduated in 2002. From 2000 to 2002, Schneider was an acting student at Theater Chemnitz.
Apart from his acting work, Schneider also works as theater musical director, musician, and composer. He is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie and the European Film Academy.
Since 2017, Schneider has portrayed middle-aged Helge Doppler in the Netflix series Dark.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004In aller Freundschaft
2009TatortUlf Meinert1 episode
2012TatortJoseph Vegener/Robert Vegener1 episode
2013Kommissarin LucasRobert Kienle1 episode
2013TatortUlrich Kastner1 episode
2015TannbachAdolph Herrmann
2015Schuld nach Ferdinand von SchirachProsecutor1 episode
2015Polizeiruf 110Moritz Richter1 episode
2015TatortUrs Hahn1 episode
2017TatortHarald Böhlert1 episode
2017–2020DarkHelge Doppler
2020TatortRainer Hildebrandt1 episode

Awards