Contact Admin. Robert Wolfgang Schnell was born in Barmen , Germany, into a middle-class family; his father was a bank clerk. He studied music and taught himself painting. A four-month period as a soldier ended in January by his desertion. He founded and directed the "Ruhrkammerspiele", a theater group, and was director at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the following years, he worked in various activities, among other things he was a member of the satirical magazine " Ulenspiegel ".
In the "Neuer Friedrichshagener" circle of poets he was an honorary member. From then on until his death he lived as a freelance writer, painter and actor in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Nationwide, he was known in for his guest role as a port pastor in the television series MS Franziska.
Robert Wolfgang Schnell was a writer first and foremost an author conventionally-realistic narrated novels and short stories, in which preferably "little people" and outsiders were described in their Berlin environment which to the author presented a counterpoint to the critically viewed contemporary society.
He is the father of filmmaker Reinald Schnell. His final resting place is in a specially marked grave, an "Ehrengrab" of the city of Berlin in the state-owned cemetery Ruhleben, entry XXIVnd.
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