Hermann von Schneidemühl
1942
born in a small town in West Prussia as the only son of a Nazi pilot
1945
flight from there in the care of my mother, a housewife, escaping the avancing Red Army
1945 – 1961
spending my childhood and youth near the city of Weimar in Communist East Germany
1961
flight from there via Berlin to West Germany just four months before the Berlin wall was build
1961 – 1964
the Cologne years. Working as an animal warden,
a compositor, a taxi driver and as a commercial artist
1965 – 1966
studying alchemy, astrology and mythology at the
University of Khartoum, Sudan, leaving with the
title „Rajul Hakum“ (,,knowing man“)
1967 – 1970
roaming Africa and Asia in search for the stone of wisdom and other minerals.
Visiting in 1969 for the first time the USA
1971 till today
producing artworks, artcraft, artfilms and theater-like
scene settings and some commercial flying machines…
and enjoying for more than fifty years the loyalty,
devotion and gratitude of a small generations-spanning community
of international collectors
1971 till today
married, three children
2020-2022
using productively the lockdowns and restrictions
during the Covid-19 pandemic by writing a 720 pages SF novel, title: „The Artist And The SS – present memories about the past to come“