Peter Schneider (writer)

Peter Schneider ( * April 21, 1940 in Lübeck ) is a German writer.

Life

Peter Schneider is the son of a conductor and composer. He spent his early childhood in Königsberg and in Saxony; 1945 to 1950 he lived in Grainau in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, and from 1950 in Freiburg im Breisgau. After his graduation in 1959, he studied at the universities of Freiburg and Munich, German, history and philosophy. In 1962, he joined the Free University of Berlin. Before the general election in 1965, he worked together with a number of well-known writers with the " campaign office " of the SPD and worked as a speechwriter in the campaign team of Willy Brandt.

During the sixties Schneider made ​​by a political radicalization that made him one of the leaders and organizers of the Berlin student movement. In 1967 he was involved in the preparation of the " Springer Tribunal ". He was a member of a " group project electrical industry ," pursued the goal of building a proletarian Left Party and aimed at the mobilization of the working class. Schneider therefore temporarily worked as a laborer in the Bosch plants. Later he taught at a private school and worked as a freelance radio employees. In 1972 he passed his first state examination; because of Schneider's political activities denied him in 1973 the Berlin school Senator employment as a trainee. This measure was repealed only in 1976 by ​​a decision of the Berlin Administrative Court.

Since he had been able to build a life as a freelance writer, Schneider gave up the clerkship. His story Lenz was from 1973 become the cult book of the disappointed left, because it described her life after the failure of their utopia and revolt. Peter Schneider since written novels, stories and screenplays that have frequent and fates of members of his generation on the subject; next created works about the situation of Berlin before and after reunification. Schneider is also a major essayist. Schneider stayed several times as a guest lecturer at Stanford University and Princeton University in the United States; In 2008 he held the Göttingen lectures on poetics. He lives in Berlin.

Peter Schneider is a member of the PEN center of Germany. He was, inter alia, 1979 Villa Massimo scholarship and 1983 the Award for Literature by the Cultural Committee of the Federation of German Industry. In 2009 he was awarded the Schubart Prize for Literature.

Works

  • Speeches. Berlin 1970
  • Cultural Revolution. ' s Gravenhage, 1973 ( with Walter Kreipe )
  • Lenz. Berlin 1973
  • Already you're an enemy of the constitution. Berlin 1975
  • Respite. Reinbek 1977
  • The bet. Berlin 1978
  • Knife in the Head. Berlin 1979
  • The message of the horse head and other essays from a peaceful decade. Darmstadt et al 1981
  • The Wall Jumper. Darmstadt et al 1982
  • Injustice for peace and order. Zurich 1982
  • Rat - dead Darmstadt Regional 1985 ( together with Peter -Jürgen Boock )
  • Totoloque. Darmstadt et al 1985
  • The end of partiality? . Paderborn 1987
  • Dad. Darmstadt et al 1987
  • German fears. Darmstadt 1988
  • Leyla and Medjnun. Tales of Music (Opera; together with Aras Oren ). Music: Detlev Glanert. UA 1988 Munich. Edition of the libretto: Berlin 1992
  • Extreme center position. Reinbek 1990
  • As the Spree flows into the Bosphorus. Berlin 1991 ( with Aras Oren )
  • Pairings. Berlin 1992
  • From the end of certainty. Berlin 1994
  • The promise or the years of the Wall. Berlin 1995 (together with Margarethe von Trotta )
  • Edward's homecoming. Berlin 1999
  • The dictatorship of speed. Berlin 2000
  • " And if we win just one hour ... " - How a Jewish musician survived the Nazi years. Berlin 2001
  • The Feast of misunderstandings. Reinbek 2003
  • Scylla. Berlin 2005
  • Rebellion and madness. My '68. Cologne 2008
  • The love of my mother. Cologne 2013
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