His father, Josef (1921–1995), was a well-known concert guitarist and guitar teacher, and his mother, Miloslava (1929–2007), worked as a florist.

A project of the same name, commemorating Schelinger's musical oeuvre, was put together in 1993 by Miloš "Dodo" Doležal, Aleš Brichta, Vlasta Henych, and Štěpán Smetáček.

[6] In 1981, after drinking all night with local musicians and artists after a concert, Schelinger accepted a bet to jump from Red Army Bridge (now Starý most) in Bratislava into the Danube river, and never resurfaced.

On the sixtieth anniversary of Schelinger's birth (and nearly 30 years after his death), in March 2011, at the house in Prague where he lived during his early childhood, a bust with a memorial plaque was unveiled to commemorate the beloved musician.

Schelinger's cause of death was never solved, and it fueled various speculations, including that he was murdered by State Security, that he attempted to emigrate illegally, wished to disappear from public life, or that he had committed suicide.