Ulrich Schreiber

Ulrich Schreiber ( born 1951 in Solingen ) is director of the international literature festival berlin ( ilb ).

Life

Ulrich Schreiber was born in 1951 in the city of Solingen. Writer learned the bricklayer, made in evening classes, the average maturity and gained after studying civil engineering university entrance. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1973-1981 Philosophy, Politics and Russian and graduated from the Second State Examination in Celle in 1984.

From 1979 to 1981 he was an editor of the left magazine Modern Times. In 1980 he was co-founder of the Berlin People's University and 1983 founder of Hamburg's University. In 1985 he was the head of the German - Italian cultural festival in Hamburg. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as a cultural manager and bauleitender architect in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin. In 1989 he founded the International Peter Weiss Society, which he chaired until 1998. In 1998 he organized the line of Thomas Bernhard days in Berlin.

During the Erlangen Poetry Festival 1998, the idea of ​​a literary festival in Berlin, which he founded in 2001 was created. The international literature festival is organized by the Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics eV and the Berliner Festspiele under the patronage of the German Commission for UNESCO. The main sponsors of recent years is the Capital Cultural Fund.

Furthermore writer is one of the initiators of the PEN World Voices Festival, The New York Festival of International Literature, a literary festival in Mumbai in 2007 and the global readings since 2006 Since September 2009, he also curated the authors' residence LiteraturRaum Bleibtreu Berlin, the writers a 6. - allows week stay in the capital.

Ulrich Schreiber is a member of the PEN center of Germany.

Writings

  • White Paper on Cultural Policy in Hamburg. Hamburg 1986
  • Anthologies and catalogs of the ilb 2001-2010
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