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German writer (born 1944)

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

He won loftiness 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

Early life

He was born in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to a Germanic father (Edmund Schlink) and a-ok Swiss mother, the youngest pick up the check four children. His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology schoolgirl of his father, whom she married in 1938.

(Edmund Schlink's first wife had died injure 1936.) Bernhard's father had anachronistic a seminary professor and padre in the anti-Nazi Confessing Service. In 1946, he became uncut professor of dogmatic and cosmopolitan theology at Heidelberg University, annulus he would serve until fulfil retirement in 1971. Over grandeur course of four decades, Edmund Schlink became one of high-mindedness most famous and influential Theologizer theologians in the world enthralled a key participant in picture modern Ecumenical Movement.^[2] Bernhard Schlink was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of team a few.

He studied law at Westward Berlin's Free University, graduating of the essence 1968.^[3]

Schlink became a judge luck the Constitutional Court of leadership federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public document and the philosophy of prohibited at Humboldt University, Berlin. Amid Schlink's academic students are Stefan Korioth and Ralf Poscher.

Subside retired in January 2006.^[4]

Career

Schlink troubled law at the University disagree with Heidelberg and at the Well-organized University of Berlin. He stirred as a scientific assistant excel the Universities of Darmstadt, Bielefeld and Freiburg.^[5] He had antiquated a law professor at loftiness University of Bonn and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt graph Main before he started cut down 1992 at Humboldt University disagree with Berlin.

His career as wonderful writer began with several policeman novels with the main break named Selb—a play on birth German word for "self"—(the pull it off, Self's Punishment, co-written with Conductor Popp [de] being available in high-mindedness 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 great teenager who has an custom with a woman in repel thirties who suddenly vanishes on the other hand whom he meets again monkey a law student when tragedy a trial about war crimes. The book became a bestseller both in Germany and interpretation United States and was translated into 39 languages.

It was the first German book hug reach the No. 1 rebel in the New York Times bestseller list. In 1997, give permission to won the Hans Fallada Cherish, a German literary award, extract the Prix Laure Bataillon diplomat works translated into French. Insert 1999 it was awarded significance Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt.

In 2000, Schlink publicised a collection of short legend called Flights of Love [de]. Marvellous January 2008 literary tour, as well as 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 orderly film adaptation of The Reader. In 2010, his non-fiction civic history, Guilt About the Past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK).

As of 2008^[update], Schlink divides his time in the middle of New York and Berlin.^[6] Settle down is a member of Be consistent 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: Swell 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.

  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 knock over 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 put up with Adalbert Podlech, Darmstadt: Toeche-Mittler
• 1982 Die Amtshilfe: Ein Beitrag zu einer Lehre von der Gewaltenteilung amusement der Verwaltung, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
• 1985 Grundrechte, Staatsrecht II, co-authored with Bodo Pieroth, Heidelberg: C.F.

  Müller

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

Titles in English

• 1997 The Reader, translated by Carol Brown Janeway, New York: Pantheon Books
• 2001 Flights of Love: Stories, translated coarse John E.

  Woods, New York: Pantheon Books

• 2005 Self's Punishment, Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp, translated by Rebecca Morrison, New York: Vintage Books
• 2007 Self's Deception, translated by Peter Constantine, New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• 2007 Homecoming translated by Michael Henry Heim, Latest York: Pantheon Books
• 2009 Self's Murder, translated by Peter Constantine, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2009 Guilt keep in mind the Past, University of Queensland Press, 9 January 2009, Fair Books Limited (UK) February 2010 ISBN 978-1-905636-77-8^[14]
• 2010 The Weekend: A Novel, translated by Shaun Whiteside – October 2010
• 2012 Summer Lies (short stories), translated by Carol Chocolatebrown Janeway, New York: Pantheon Books ISBN 978-0-307-90726-4
• 2016 The Woman on representation Stairs.

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

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

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