Robert Wolfgang Schnell

Robert Wolfgang Schnell (March 8, 1916 – August 1, 1986) was a German writer.

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. The Nazis refused him admission as a painter in the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts Reichskulturkammer. During the "Third Reich", he worked as a laborer, then as a laboratory technician and was conscripted into the tax office in the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Activities as a stage manager at the theater in Schneidemühl and as an opera director in The Hague followed. A four-month period as a soldier ended in January 1945 by his desertion.

After the end of World War II Schnell was working as a part-time actor. 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 1959 he founded with Günter Bruno Fuchs, the painter Sigurd Kuschnerus and Günter Anlauf the in Berlin-Kreuzberg based "Zinke (Galerie)" which continued until 1962. 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 1978 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. Schnelle, a member of the PEN Centre Germany received in 1970 the "Eduard von der Heydt" Culture Prize of the city of Wuppertal.

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