Toni Schneiders: Vita
- 1920: Born in Urbar near Koblenz
- 1936: Apprenticeship as a photographer with a master's degree in Koblenz
- 1940: Soldier in the Luftwaffe's photography department
- 1942: Worked as a war correspondent in France and Italy until the end of the war
- 1945: After a brief period of imprisonment, he worked as a freelancer in Koblenz; reportages, advertising and travel photographs for numerous publications
- 1946: Moved to Meersburg, where he worked in a photo studio
- 1948: Founding of a photo studio in Meersburg; architectural, industrial, and landscape photography
- 1948: Close contact with the photographers Hajek-Halke and Peter Keetman as well as the painter Julius Bissier
- 1949: Founding member of the group "fotoform" (which includes Schneiders, Keetmann, Lauterwasser, Reisewitz, Steinert and Windstosser)
- 1949: Move to Lindau
- 1950: Advertising photographer and photojournalist for newspapers and magazines (e.g. Merian )
- 1950: Worked at the Mannsfeld advertising studio in Hamburg
- 1950: Marriage to Ingeborg Thomann
- 1952: Participation in the World Exhibition of Photography in Lucerne
- 1956: Travels to Ethiopia, European countries and North Africa
- 1961: Trip to Japan
- 1969: Southeast Asia trip
- 1970: Establishment of an image archive on European art and cultural history
- 1999: Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) together with Lauterwasser and Reisewitz
- August 4, 2006: Schneiders dies in Lindau
