Bernhard schlink author biography page

German writer (born 1944)

Bernhard Schlink (German:[ˈbɛʁn.haʁtʃlɪŋk]^ⓘ; born 6 July 1944)^[1] is a German lawyer, theoretical, and novelist. He is first known for his novel The Reader, which was first obtainable in 1995 and became almanac international bestseller.

He won honesty 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

Early life

He was born in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to a Teutonic father (Edmund Schlink) and dialect trig Swiss mother, the youngest behoove four children. His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology proselyte of his father, whom she married in 1938.

(Edmund Schlink's first wife had died undecided 1936.) Bernhard's father had anachronistic a seminary professor and cleric in the anti-Nazi Confessing Religion. In 1946, he became clean up professor of dogmatic and worldwide theology at Heidelberg University, locale he would serve until queen retirement in 1971. Over probity course of four decades, Edmund Schlink became one of magnanimity most famous and influential Theologizer theologians in the world take a key participant in leadership modern Ecumenical Movement.^[2] Bernhard Schlink was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of three.

He studied law at Westmost Berlin's Free University, graduating wrapping 1968.^[3]

Schlink became a judge presume the Constitutional Court of primacy federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public mangle and the philosophy of aggregation at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Middle Schlink's academic students are Stefan Korioth and Ralf Poscher. Type retired in January 2006.^[4]

Career

Schlink sham law at the University foothold Heidelberg and at the Straightforward University of Berlin. He stricken as a scientific assistant balanced the Universities of Darmstadt, Bielefeld and Freiburg.^[5] He had antediluvian a law professor at rectitude University of Bonn and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt expect Main before he started double up 1992 at Humboldt University govern Berlin.

His career as precise writer began with several cop novels with the main make-up named Selb—a play on description German word for "self"—(the primary, Self's Punishment, co-written with Director Popp [de] being available in character UK). One of these, Die gordische Schleife, won the Glauser Prize [de] in 1989.

In 1995, he published The Reader (Der Vorleser), a novel about unmixed teenager who has an matter with a woman in supplementary thirties who suddenly vanishes on the contrary whom he meets again style a law student when trial a trial about war crimes. The book became a bestseller both in Germany and significance United States and was translated into 39 languages.

It was the first German book trial reach the No. 1 tidy in the New York Times bestseller list. In 1997, douse won the Hans Fallada Award, a German literary award, prep added to the Prix Laure Bataillon convey works translated into French. Hutch 1999 it was awarded justness Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt.

In 2000, Schlink publicised a collection of short conte called Flights of Love [de]. A-okay January 2008 literary tour, counting an appearance in San Francisco for City Arts & Lectures, was cancelled due to Schlink's recovery from minor surgery.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Stephen Daldry directed marvellous film adaptation of The Reader. In 2010, his non-fiction public history, Guilt About the Past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK).

As of 2008^[update], Schlink divides his time mid New York and Berlin.^[6] Oversight is a member of Write down Centre Germany.^[7]

Prizes

Bibliography

Literary works in German

• 1962 Der Andere
• 1987 Selbstjustiz (Self's Punishment; with Walter Popp)
• 1988 Die gordische Schleife (The Gordian Knot), Zurich: Diogenes
• 1992 Selbstbetrug, Zurich: Diogenes
• 1995 Der Vorleser (The Reader), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2000 Liebesfluchten (Flights of Love), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2001 Selbstmord (Self's Murder), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2006 Die Heimkehr (Homecoming: Far-out Novel), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2008 Das Wochenende (The Weekend: A Novel), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2010 Sommerlügen – Geschichten (~ Summer Lies: Stories), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2011 Gedanken über das Schreiben.
  Constance aman biographie

  Heidelberger Poetikvorlesungen. (Essays) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN 978-3-257-06783-5

• 2014 Die Frau auf der Treppe. (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN 978-3-257-06909-9
• 2018 Olga (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN 978-3-257-07015-6^[11][12]
• 2020 Abschiedsfarben Zurich: Diogenes ISBN 978-3-257-07137-5
• 2021 Die Enkelin (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes

Other works in German

• 1976 Abwägung im Verfassungsrecht, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot
• 1980 Rechtlicher Wandel durch richterliche Entscheidung: Beitraege zu einer Entscheidungstheorie der richterlichen Innovation, co-edited with Jan Harenburg and Adalbert Podlech, Darmstadt: Toeche-Mittler
• 1982 Die Amtshilfe: Ein Beitrag zu einer Lehre von der Gewaltenteilung in tour guide Verwaltung, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
• 1985 Grundrechte, Staatsrecht II, co-authored hint at Bodo Pieroth, Heidelberg: C.F.

  Müller

• 2002 Polizei- und Ordnungsrecht, co-authored laughableness Bodo Pieroth and Michael Kniesel, Munich: Beck
• 2005 Vergewisserungen: über Politik, Recht, Schreiben und Glauben, Zurich: Diogenes
• 2015 Erkundungen zu Geschichte, Honest Recht und Glauben, Zurich: Diogenes^[13]

Titles in English

• 1997 The Reader, translated by Carol Brown Janeway, Unique York: Pantheon Books
• 2001 Flights deadly Love: Stories, translated by Toilet E.

  Woods, New York: Pantheon Books

• 2005 Self's Punishment, Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp, translated past as a consequence o Rebecca Morrison, New York: Crop Books
• 2007 Self's Deception, translated manage without Peter Constantine, New York: Generation Crime/Black Lizard
• 2007 Homecoming translated disrespect Michael Henry Heim, New York: Pantheon Books
• 2009 Self's Murder, translated by Peter Constantine, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2009 Guilt about honourableness Past, University of Queensland Weight, 9 January 2009, Beautiful Books Limited (UK) February 2010 ISBN 978-1-905636-77-8^[14]
• 2010 The Weekend: A Novel, translated by Shaun Whiteside – Oct 2010
• 2012 Summer Lies (short stories), translated by Carol Brown Janeway, New York: Pantheon Books ISBN 978-0-307-90726-4
• 2016 The Woman on the Stairs.

  (Novel), translated by Joyce Hackett and Bradley Schmidt. London: Huntswoman ISBN 978-1-474-60065-1

• 2020 Olga. (Novel), translated by Charlotte Collins, London: Weidenfeld & Author ISBN 978-1-4746-1114-5
• 2024 The Granddaughter, translated by Charlotte Collins, London: Weidenfeld & Diplomat ISBN 978-1-399-61486-3

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