Helge Schneider is a German musician, entertainer, comedian, cabaret artist, writer, film and theater director, and actor. He rose to fame through stage performances in which he combines slapstick and parody with jazz music.

Filmography

• 2026Die Kröte - El Sapo — Director
• 2025The Fabulous World of Doctor Cadéot — Original Music Composer
• 2025The Klimperclown — Self, Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Costume Design, Original Music Composer, Producer
• 2020Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence — Self (archive footage), Music
• 2020The Kangaroo Chronicles — Fitnesstrainer
• 2016Helge Schneider: The Paket - Süper Helges phantastisches Video-Sammelsüriüm!
• 2016Udo Lindenberg: Stärker als die Zeit - Live
• 2015Lass knacken, HELGE, HELGE, der Film! HELGE Life!
• 2014Nachrichten vom Großen Krieg
• 201300 Schneider - Im Wendekreis der Eidechse — Roy Schneider, Director, Writer
• Neo Magazin Royale — Guest
• 2013Ohne Gnade — Elvis
• Krömer - Late Night Show
• 2012Mister Katzeklo – Helge Schneider wird 50
• 2011Helge - Komm hier haste ne Mark! Helge und Band live in Berlin — Himself, Director, Writer
• 2009Chaostage - We Are Punks! — Anwohner
• 2007My Führer — Adolf Hitler
• Schmidt & Pocher
• 20067 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough — Der Weiße Helge
• 2006Das kleine Arschloch und der alte Sack - Sterben ist Scheiße — Der Alte Sack (Voice), Music
• 2005Mendy - das Wusical — Original Music Composer, Director, Writer
• 20047 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald — The White Helge
• 2004Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm — Teddy Schu, Rodriguez Faszanatas, Professor Henry, Käpt’n Silver, Director, Original Music Composer, Screenplay
• 2003Don't Get Stuck — Bestatter, Compositor
• Genial daneben
• 2002Atlantic Affairs — Saxophone Player
• 1999Käpt’n Blaubär – Der Film — Prof. Dr. Feinfinger
• 1997Kleines Arschloch - Der Film — Alter Sack (voice)
• 1997Praxis Dr. Hasenbein — Dr. Angelika Hasenbein, Original Music Composer, Director
• 1997The 120 Days of Bottrop — Original Music Composer
• 1996Beyond the Image — Music
• 1996Pictures Come to Life — Music
• 1996The Ambiguous Image and Space — Music
• 1996The Magic Drum — Music
• 1995Helge Schneider - Frühe Meisterwerke — Helge Schneider, Director
• 199400 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter — 00 Schneider / Nihil Baxter / Prof. Hasenbein / Johnny Flash, Director, Author, Original Music Composer
• 1994Felidae — Jesaja (voice)
• 1993Ebbies Bluff — Plattenboss
• RTL Samstag Nacht
• 1993Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem — Doc Snyder, Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer
• 1991Manta - Der Film — DJ Johnny Flash, Original Music Composer
• Schmidteinander
• 1988Drei D — Accordeon Player
• 1988Mother's Mask — Martin von Mühlenbeck, Original Music Composer
• 1987Egomania: Island Without Hope — Original Music Composer
• 1987Stangenfieber — Director
• 1986Idiots' Battle — Music
• 1986Johnny Flash — Johnny Flash, Original Music Composer
• 1986Menu Total — Joe, Original Music Composer
• 1984Bemerkungen I — Music
• 1983Stern des Melies — Music
• 1982Uliisses — Original Music Composer

Appearances as themselves (59)

• 2026Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod — Self
• 2025Fritz Litzmann, mein Vater und ich — Self
• 2025Hallervorden - Didi gegen den Rest der Welt — Self
• 2024Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2023Loriot 100 — Self
• Bestes Kabarett! — Self
• Chez Krömer — Self
• Maischberger — Self
• 2018Happy Lamento — Self
• Late Night Berlin — Self
• 2017Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures — Self
• Ringlstetter — self, himself
• 2015Mülheim Texas – Helge Schneider hier und dort — Self
• Kunscht! — Self
• Circus Halligalli — Self
• Gottschalk Live — Self
• 2010Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse — Self
• 2009Die PARTEI — Self
• Granaten wie wir — Self
• Germany, Your Artists — Self
• Markus Lanz — Self
• 2008News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital — Self
• 2008Udo Lindenberg - Stark wie zwei — Self
• Inas Nacht — Self
• Mario Barth präsentiert: Die besten Comedians Deutschlands — Self
• Neues aus der Anstalt — Himself
• Thadeusz — self
• Leute am Donnerstag — himself
• Sarah Kuttner – Die Show — Self - Segment
• Our Best — Self
• ZIBB — Self
• Elton.tv — self
• Menschen der Woche — Self
• Beckmann — Self
• Lachen tut gut - Comedy für Unicef — Self
• TV total — Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• German Comedy Award — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Tigerenten Club — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• Prix Pantheon — himself
• ECHO-Verleihung — Self
• Riverboat — Self
• DAS! — Self
• Geld oder Liebe — Self
• Alles Nichts Oder?! — Self
• Mitternachtsspitzen — Self
• Nachtcafé — Self
• ZDF-Fernsehgarten — Self
• Musik Convoy — Self
• Menschen — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Verstehen Sie Spaß? — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• 3 nach 9 — Self
• Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis — Self
• aspekte — Self