Herbert Schachtschneider

Born in Allenstein, East Prussia (Olsztyn, Poland), Schachtschneider grew up in Berlin and began his private singing studies in 1936, one year before graduating from high school.

[2][3][4] On return to Germany he appeared in revues and musicals, in television productions at NDR and at the Eutiner Festspiele [de].

He participated in the world premiere of Nicolas Nabokov's Der Tod des Grigori Rasputin in 1959, staged by Schuh and conducted by Joseph Rosenstock.

He worked with conductors such as Siegfried Köhler, Hans Swarowsky, Rafael Kubelík, Joseph Keilberth, Nello Santi and Wolfgang Sawallisch.

He sang in Wieland Wagner's staging of his grandfather's The Ring of the Nibelung in Cologne, with George London as Wotan.