Fatoni

{{Short description|German rapper, songwriter, and actor (born 1984)}}

thumb|Southside Festival 2024 '''Anton Schneider''' (born 8 December 1984 in Munich), known professionally as '''Fatoni''', is a German rapper, songwriter and actor.

== Early life == Schneider grew up in Munich. He changed schools a number of times and started an apprenticeship as a childcare assistant after completing 10th grade. Later he studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts. He lives in Berlin.

== Music == Since coming into contact with Hip Hop at the end of the 1990s, Schneider started writing his own lyrics and became active as the rapper "Fatoni". In 2000 he founded the band Creme Fresh with rapper Keno and producer Bustla. Until its dissolution in 2011, the band published four albums and an EP. Until 2010, Fatoni and his band members were also part of the brass band Moop Mama, after which he left to start his solo career.

In 2011 Fatoni's first solo album was released, ''Solange früher alles besser war ("as long as everything used to be better")''. In 2013 he released a collaborative album ''Nocebo'' with Edgar Wasser. In the next year, his EP ''Die Zeit heilt alle Hypes ("Time heals all hypes")'' was released. In 2015 Fatoni released the EP ''C’mon!'', featuring among others Edgar Wasser, Dexter and Occupanther Beats.

Also in 2015, Fatoni released the album ''Yo, Picasso'' along with Dexter and with a guest appearance by Philipp Grütering aka Kryptik Joe of Deichkind. The record debuted at place 23 in the German album charts and reached place 2 in the Hip Hop charts.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-03 |title=Offizielle Deutsche Charts – Offizielle Deutsche Charts |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/hiphop/for-date-1447392374000}}</ref> In the following years he toured widely, opening for, among others, Fettes Brot,<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-03 |author=Stephanie |date=2015-09-25 |title=Fettes Brot – Teenager vom Mars Tour 2015 |url=https://www.aboutmusiic.com/fettes-brot-teenager-vom-mars-tour-2015/ |website=About Musïc}}</ref> die Beatsteaks,<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-03 |title=Beatsteaks – Seite 14 |url=https://beatsteaks.com/page/14/?la=de}}</ref> Alligatoah, die Antilopen Gang and Deichkind.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-03 |title=Facebook |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/Deichkind/photos/fatoni-in-m%C3%B6nchengladbachfat-like-a-jet-der-hei%C3%9Feste-altcomer-seit-dem-es-ibupro/10155545637413054/}}</ref> Later he had solo tours throughout the Germanophone area.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-03 |title=Fatoni – Yo, Fatoni Tour 2016 |url=https://www.testspiel.de/fatoni-yo-fatoni-tour-2016/311135/ |website=Testspiel.de}}</ref>

In March 2017 Fatoni's mixtape ''Im Modus ("in the mode")'' came out, featuring old companions like Edgar Wasser, Dexter und Juse Ju, as well as new collaborators Maeckes, Retrogott and the electropop band Grossstadtgeflüster.

In October 2017 Fatoni released a collaboration album ''Alle Liebe nachträglich ("all love belatedly")'' with singer Mine. The two had collaborated before on Mine's song ''Ziehst du mit ("Are you coming along?")''. The record was nominated for the 2018 Pop culture prize in the categories "Favourite album" and "Most exciting idea/campaign".

In 2019, Fatoni released his next solo album, ''Andorra'', which entered the German album charts at place 9. The record features guest appearances by Casper as well as Dirk von Lowtzow of Tocotronic.

In May 2021, ''Delirium'', Fatoni's second collab album with Edgar Wasser was released. The record entered the German album charts at place 4 and reached place 1 on the Hip Hop charts.

In February 2023, single ''Wunderbare Welt ("Wonderful world")'' was released, to announce the album of the same name. After the release of further singles, the album appeared in May 2023, and entered the German album charts at place 7.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-31 |title=Offizielle Deutsche Charts – Offizielle Deutsche Charts |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-518436}}</ref>

In May 2025, ''BAWRS'', Fatoni's third collaborative album with Edgar Wasser and Juse Ju was released. This was his first album with two other collaborators. It was pre-released along with the singles ''Nein! Doch! Ohh! ("No! Yes! Ohh!"), Beste Kombi ("Best combination"),'' and ''Crémant aus dem Senfglas ("Crémant from the mustard pot")''.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2025-05-06 |author=DIFFUS |date=2025-05-05 |title=Fatoni, Edgar Wasser & Juse Ju im Interview: "BAWRS", Boom Bap und Back to the Roots {{!}} DIFFUS |website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EY3L7-G-Io}}</ref>

Fatoni frequently collaborates with other musicians, and has appeared on pieces by Die Höchste Eisenbahn, Max Herre, Grossstadtgeflüster, Antilopen Gang, Fettes Brot, Lakmann, Dexter, Maeckes, Juse Ju and Moop Mama.

== Acting == During his studies at the Otto-Falckenberg-School between 2009 and 2013, Schneider appeared in various plays in Munich, for example at the Munich Kammerspiele. After a guest engagement at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, he was in the ensemble of the Staatstheater Augsburg from 2013 to 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anton Schneider › Stadttheater Klagenfurt |url=http://www.stadttheater-klagenfurt.at/de/personen/anton-schneider/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222003808/http://www.stadttheater-klagenfurt.at/de/personen/anton-schneider/ |archive-date=2015-02-22 |access-date=2025-07-30 |website=www.stadttheater-klagenfurt.at |language=de-DE}}</ref>

He has also appeared in film and television, for example in ''Tatort'' (2021), series like ''Normaloland'' (2022), ''Fett und Fett ("Fat and fat")'' (2022) or the theater release ''Home Sweet Home - Wo das Böse wohnt ("Home sweet home – where evil lives")'' (2023). He has also acted as a voice artist on audiobooks and audio plays, such as ''Die letzten Männer des Westens ("The last men of the west")'' by Tobias Ginsburg in 2021, ''Goldstein'' by Volker Kutscher in 2022, or "Drifter" for the Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-11-20 |title=Das Buch zur Woche: Tobias Ginsburg – "Die letzten Männer des Westens" |url=https://diffusmag.de/p/podcasts/das-buch-zur-woche-tobias-ginsburg-die-letzten-maenner-des-westens/ |website=Diffus}}</ref>

From 2015 to 2023 he presented ''Die Fatoni Show'' on Radio Puls.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 March 2015 |title=Die Fatoni Show |url=http://www.br.de/puls/programm/puls-radio/fatoni-show-brutalstmoegliches-entertainment-und-hiphop-100.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320051659/http://www.br.de/puls/programm/puls-radio/fatoni-show-brutalstmoegliches-entertainment-und-hiphop-100.html |archive-date=20 March 2015 |access-date=30 July 2025 |website=Puls }}</ref>

== Film- and Theater music == In 2021, Fatoni wrote various songs for the TV series ''Almost Fly'' (a Wiedemann & Berg production) along with Roger Rekless.

In 2022 he wrote songs for Anne Lenk's production of Minna von Barnhelm at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. The songs were produced by musician and actor Camill Jammal.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-31 |author=Deutsches Theater Berlin |language=de |title=Deutsches Theater Berlin – Minna von Barnhelm, von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |url=http://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/a-z/minna-von-barnhelm/}}</ref>

== Discography ==

=== As solo artist ===

==== Albums ==== {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Title !DE !AT !CH !Comment |- |2007 |Prosecco Piff | | | |With Juse Ju and Popbiz Enemy |- |2011 |Solang früher alles besser war | | | | |- |2013 |Nocebo | | | |With Edgar Wasser |- |2014 |Die Zeit heilt alle Hypes | | | | |- |2015 |Yo, Picasso |23 (2 wk) | | |With Dexter |- |2017 |Im Modus |21 (2 wk) | | | |- |2017 |Alle Liebe nachträglich |47 (1 wk) | | |With Mine |- |2019 |Andorra |9 (3 wk) |67 (1 wk) |80 (1 wk) | |- |2021 |Delirium |4 (2 wk) |27 (1 wk) |80 (1 wk) |With Edgar Wasser |- |2023 |Wunderbare Welt |7 (1 wk) | | | |- |2025 |BAWRS |6 (1 wk) | | |With Edgar Wasser and Juse Ju |} '''EPs'''

* 2015: ''C’MON! EP'' (Download-EP, fatoni.de)

==== Singles and Videos ====

* 2011: ''Lauf der Dinge'' * 2011: ''Vorurteile'' (with Juse Ju) * 2012: ''Solange früher alles besser war'' * 2012: ''Geh jetzt weg'' * 2012: ''Mutterficker'' (with Audio88 &amp; Yassin) * 2013: ''Dicke Hipster'' * 2013: ''Nicht jetzt'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2013: ''Check uns aus'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2013: ''Fans'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2013: ''Deutscher Rap'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2014: ''Lustig'' * 2013: ''An der Uhr'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2014: ''Tränen oder Pisse'' * 2014: ''Vorurteile pt. II'' (with the Antilopen Gang and Juse Ju) * 2015: ''Kreis'' * 2015: ''C’mon das geht auch klüger'' * 2015: ''Schlafentzug'' * 2015: ''Benjamin Button'' (with Dexter) * 2015: ''Kein Tag'' (with Dexter) * 2015: ''Kann nicht reden ich esse'' (with Dexter and Kryptik Joe) * 2015: ''32 Grad'' * 2016: ''Ziehst du mit'' (with Mine) * 2016: ''Keiner Fickt Mich (Grossstadtgeflüster with Fatoni)'' * 2016: ''Gravitationswellen'' (with Juse Ju) * 2016: ''Im Modus'' (with Juse Ju) * 2017: ''Narkolepsie'' * 2017: ''Das ist alles Kunst'' (with Dexter) * 2017: ''DA.YO.NE'' (with Edgar Wasser and Juse Ju) * 2017: ''Alle Liebe nachträglich'' (with Mine) * 2017: ''Romcom'' (with Mine) * 2019: ''Die Anderen'' * 2019: ''Clint Eastwood'' * 2019: ''Alles zieht vorbei'' (with Dirk von Lowtzow) * 2020: ''Inside Job'' (with Edgar Wasser and Juse Ju) * 2020: ''Zuhause'' (with Juse Ju, Mauli and Panik Panzer) * 2020: ''Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein'' * 2020: ''Realität'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2021: ''Der Beste'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2021: ''Alle 11 Minuten'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2021: ''Künstlerische Differenzen'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2021: ''Das Leben ist dumm'' (with Edgar Wasser) * 2021: ''Feeling'' (with Dexter) * 2021: ''Sí claro'' (with Antilopen Gang) * 2022: ''Der Teufel steckt im Detail'' (with Betterov) * 2023: ''Wunderbare Welt'' * 2023: ''Danke dass du mich verlassen hast'' (with Danger Dan) * 2023: ''Fröhlich'' * 2023: ''Alle ziehen'' * 2023: ''Du wartest'' (with Tristan Brush) * 2023: ''Links Rechts'' * 2024: ''Rette sich wer kann'' (with Christin Nichols) * 2024: ''War dabei'' (with Ami Warning) * 2024: ''LEKKER'' (with grim104) * 2025: ''Nein! Doch! Ohh!'' (with Edgar Wasser und Juse Ju) * 2025: ''Beste Kombi'' (with Edgar Wasser und Juse Ju) * 2025: ''Crémant aus dem Senfglas'' (with Edgar Wasser und Juse Ju)

== Theater ==

* 2011: ''Nestbeschmutzung ("Nest soiling")'' by Tobias Ginsburg * 2013: ''The Virgin Suicides'' by Jeffrey Eugenides * 2013: ''Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig’ Leben'' nach Franz von Kobell by Kurt Wilhelm * 2014: ''Einer und Eine'' by Martin Heckmanns * 2014: ''Verrücktes Blut'' by Nurkan Erpulat und Jens Hillje * 2014: ''Die Banditen von Gerolstein'' by Jacques Offenbach * 2015: ''Goldland'' by Tobias Ginsburg * 2015: ''Kleiner Mann – was nun?'' by Hans Fallada

== Filmography ==

* 2014: Twinfruit the Winfruit * 2013: Elly Beinhorn – Alleinflug * 2015: SOKO München * 2016: Die Rosenheim-Cops * 2020: Stichtag * 2020: WAPO Bodensee<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-01-07 |publisher=ARD {{!}} Das Erste |title=Blackout – WaPo Bodensee |url=https://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/serie/wapo-bodensee/sendung/blackout-folge-39-100.html}}</ref> * 2020: SOKO Wismar * 2021: Schlafschafe * 2021: SOKO Potsdam * 2021: Normaloland * 2021: Fett und Fett * 2021: Blutige Anfänger<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-10-21 |title=Blutige Anfänger Staffel 2, Folge 5: Durchbohrt |url=https://www.fernsehserien.de/blutige-anfaenger/folgen/2x05-durchbohrt-1508784 |website=fernsehserien}}</ref> * 2021: Tatort: Luna frisst oder stirbt * 2023: Trauzeugen<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2023-06-02 |title=Anton Fatoni Schneider |url=https://www.schauspielervideos.de/fullprofile/schauspieler-anton-schneider.html |website=schauspielervideos.de}}</ref> * 2024: Home Sweet Home: Wo das Böse wohnt * 2024: Szene Report * 2026: Kacken an der Havel (Netflix Serie)

== External links ==

* [http://fatoni.de/ Official website] * {{Discogs artist|Fatoni|Fatoni}} * {{Discogs artist|Creme Fresh (2)|Creme Fresh}} * Anton "Fatoni" Schneider at crew United [https://www.crew-united.com/de/Anton-Fatoni-Schneider_286251.html] * [https://www.castupload.com/actors/anton-fatoni-schneider Anton "Fatoni" Schneider] at castupload.com * [https://birnbaum-frame.de/management/actors/anton-schneider-aka-fatoni/ Profile at Biernbaum & Frame agency]

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