Martin Schneider often just called "Maddin", is a German comedian

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

, cabarettist and actor.

Biography

Martin Schneider grew up in Burgholzhausen

Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe

Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe is a quarter of the city of Friedrichsdorf at the foothills of the Taunus mountain range, approx. north of Frankfurt am Main.- History :...

, a district of Friedrichsdorf

Friedrichsdorf

Friedrichsdorf is a town of the Hochtaunuskreis, some north of Frankfurt am Main in Hesse, Germany.-Location: Friedrichsdorf is located in the Taunus area, ranking third among the Hochtaunuskreis boroughs after Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Oberursel...

.

Today he lives in Marburg

Marburg

Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...

. At first he did an internship at the Hessischer Rundfunk

Hessischer Rundfunk

Hessischer Rundfunk is the public broadcaster for the German state of Hesse. The main offices of HR are in Frankfurt am Main. HR is a member of the ARD.- Studios :...

. That's where he tried himself in cabaret. 1990 he got his first stage job. His first programme was "Gell, Sie sind spirituell?" (You're spiritual, aren't you?). Since 1992 he appeared in Quatsch Comedy Club, which was still a theater in Hamburg at that time. Later he appeared in several TV shows like RTL Samstag Nacht

RTL Samstag Nacht

RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy show, which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on the German TV network RTL. RTL Samstag Nacht was the first major comedy show in German television, created after the example of the long-running American show Saturday Night Live and broadcast late on Saturday night...

 and had guest appearances in 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe (7 days, 7 heads) and Genial daneben (Ingeniously Off The Mark). He was cast member of Comedy Factory (1996/97) on ProSieben. Since 2004 Martin Schneider is best friends with Cordula Stratmann

Cordula Stratmann

Cordula Stratmann is a German comedian. After taking the Abitur school-leaving examination, she studied social work at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia, in Cologne. During her work at the family counselling section of the Pulheim youth welfare office she also...

 in Sat.1

Sat.1

Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....

's improvisational comedy show Schillerstraße

Schillerstraße

Schillerstraße is a German improvisational comedy show that airs weekly on Sat.1. It is recorded without a script and broadcast unedited to a large extent...

. Additionally he played the dwarf "Speedy" in the October 2004 big screen movie 7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald (7 Dwarves - Men Alone In The Woods)

7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald

7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood , is a German comedy film, created in 2004 by Otto Waalkes, which follows the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by the Brothers Grimm....

 by Otto Waalkes

Otto Waalkes

Otto Gerhard Waalkes is a Frisian comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' , elephant-like comic characters of his own design...

 alongside Otto Waalkes, Markus Majowski, Boris Aljinovic, Heinz Hoenig, Ralf Schmitz

Ralf Schmitz

Ralf Schmitz is a German actor.- Filmography :* since 2003: Genial daneben – Die Comedy Arena* 2004–2006: Schillerstraße* 2002–2005: Die Dreisten Drei Ralf Schmitz (* 3 November 1974 in Leverkusen) is a German actor.- Filmography :* since 2003: Genial daneben – Die Comedy Arena* 2004–2006:...

 and Mirco Nontschew. The sequel "7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug (7 Dwarves - The Woods Are Not Enough)" was released in October 2006.

He is best known for his Hessian dialect. "Aschebeschär" ("Aschenbecher" in Standard German, ashtray in English) has become a dictum by Schneider. His characteristics are his especially distinctive face and his big mouth.

Martin Schneider released several compact discs ("Aschebeschär" (Ashtray), Sischär Is Sischär! ("Sicher ist sicher!" = What's sure, that's sure), "Raggae Mann", "Best Of Maddin") as well as the book "Im Bett mit Maddin" (In Bed with Maddin).

Martin has got a twin sister called Martina.

His manager is Heidrun Buchmaier, companion of Bastian Pastewka

Bastian Pastewka

Bastian Pastewka is a German actor and comedian.He first became known to a wider audience in Germany around 1996 as a regular cast member of the comedy show Die Wochenshow , essentially a mock news program...

.

Filmography

• 1999 "Alles Bob" - Everything Bob
• 2000 "Flashback - Mörderische Ferien" - Flashback - Murderous Holidays
• 2001 "Ausziehn!" - Undress!
• 2003 "Sperling und der Mann im Abseits" - Sperlig And The Kept Aloof (TV)
• 2004 "Germanikus" - Germanicus
• 2004 "7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald
  7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald
  7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood , is a German comedy film, created in 2004 by Otto Waalkes, which follows the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by the Brothers Grimm....
  
  " - 7 Dwarves - Men Alone In The Woods
• 2004 "Crazy Race 2 - Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel" - Crazy Race 2 - Why The Wall Fell Really (TV)
• 2006 "7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug" - 7 Dwarves - The Forest Is Not Enough

Literature

• Martin Schneider, Heidrun Buchmaier: "Im Bett mit Maddin (In Bed with Maddin)", Kurschus & Zanolli 2003, ISBN 3865070426

External links

• Martin Schneider's official page