Everything about Jana Schneider totally explained
Janet Ann Schneider (born
October 24,
1951, in
McFarland, Wisconsin) is an
American actress and
photojournalist.
Jana had a successful career on
Broadway, and was nominated for a
1986 Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the role Helena Landless in
The Mystery of Edwin Drood and won a 1986
Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
In the late 1980s, she decided to become a photojournalist. Jana worked for several photo agencies including SIPA press. Her work was published in
Time Magazine,
Newsweek,
Stern (magazine) and many other newspapers and magazines.
She covered news stories in
Northern Ireland,
Sri Lanka,
Angola, the Soviet pullout from
Afghanistan. She was in
Baghdad during the
Gulf war, and photographed the fall of the
Berlin wall, and the break-up of the
Soviet Union.
In 1992, as she was covering the
Siege of Sarajevo, Jana was badly wounded when a tank shell fired from Serb positions exploded next to her. Her friend, a journalist from
Slovenia Ivo Standeker, was killed. Jana spent many weeks in the hospital, first with the
UN and later in
Belgrade where the doctors managed to save her leg from being amputated.
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