Peter Schneider, born in 1975 in Leipzig, started after high school in 1995 to study music and from 1998-2002 acting at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig, where he graduated with a master. Since then he has worked as an actor on theaters in Germany. Since an intensive collaboration with Edgar Reitz 2001-2002 ("Heimat 3) Peter Schneider works well with many film and television productions. He played as the lead role in Hans Weingartner's acclaimed psychological drama "Hut in the Woods". For this Peter Schneider was nominated 2012 for the German Film Award (LOLA) in the category "best dramatic performance male lead" and 2013 for the prize of the German Film Critics Association Awards. Also in 2013 the director Mareille Klein received the "Max Ophüls Prize 2013" for her film "Gruppenfilm" in which Peter Schneider played the leading role.