Peter Schneider (writer)

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Peter Schneider (2008)

Peter Schneider (born 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 Saxony , from 1945 to 1950 the family lived in Grainau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen and from 1950 in Freiburg im Breisgau . After graduating from high school in 1959, he studied German , history and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg and Munich . In 1962 he moved to the Free University of Berlin . Before the Bundestag election in 1965, he worked with a number of well-known writers in the “election campaign office” of the SPD and worked as a speechwriter in Willy Brandt's campaign team .

In the course of the 1960s Schneider went through 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 "project group for the electrical industry", which pursued the goal of building a proletarian left party and aimed to mobilize the workers . Schneider therefore worked temporarily as an unskilled worker in the Bosch factories. He later taught at a private school and worked as a freelance radio worker . In 1972 he passed his 1st  state examination; Because of Schneider's political activities, the Berlin School Senator refused to accept him as a trainee lawyer in 1973 . This measure was only repealed in 1976 by a decision of the Berlin Administrative Court.

Since he had built up a career as a freelance writer, Schneider decided not to do his legal clerkship. His story Lenz had become a cult book of the disappointed left from 1973 , as it described their attitude towards life after the failure of their utopia and revolt. Since then , Peter Schneider has written novels , short stories and screenplays that often deal with the fate of members of his generation; in addition, works were created on the situation in Berlin before and after reunification . Schneider is also an eminent essayist . Schneider has been a visiting professor at Stanford University , Georgetown University and Princeton University in the United States on several occasions ; In 2008 he gave the Göttingen poetics lectures. He lives in Berlin.

Peter Schneider is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He received u. a. In 1979 a Villa Massimo scholarship and in 1983 the advancement award for literature of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry . In 2009 he was awarded the Schubart Literature Prize.

With the novel about Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi and his daughters (2019), the author draws a link back to a musical hero of his childhood. He freely describes the by no means idyllic everyday world of Vivaldi, whose continuous activity as a music teacher with the orphan girl orchestra he runs in baroque Venice is one of the less well-known facts of his life.

Works

Monographs

  • Speeches. Berlin 1970.
  • Cultural revolution. 's Gravenhage 1973 (together with Walter Kreipe).
  • You are already an enemy of the constitution. Berlin 1975.
  • Respite. Reinbek near Hamburg 1977.
  • Knife in the head. Berlin 1979. (as film 1978: Knife in the head )
  • The Horse's Head Message and other essays from a peaceful decade. Darmstadt et al. 1981.
  • Wrong for peace and order. Zurich 1982.
  • Rat - dead. Darmstadt et al. 1985 (together with Peter-Jürgen Boock ).
  • Totoloque. Darmstadt et al. 1985.
  • The end of bias? Paderborn 1987.
  • German fears. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1988
    • Book edition of the libretto: Berlin 1992.
  • Extreme middle position. Reinbek near Hamburg 1990.
  • How the Spree flows into the Bosporus. Berlin 1991 (together with Aras Ören).
  • 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 only win an hour ..." - How a Jewish musician survived the Nazi years . Rowohlt, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-87134-431-2 .
  • The festival of misunderstandings. Reinbek near Hamburg 2003.
  • Scylla . Berlin 2005.
  • Rebellion and delusion. My 68. An autobiographical story. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03976-4 ; as Kiwi paperback: 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04250-4 .
  • My mother's loved ones. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04514-7 .
  • It can't be because of the beauty: Berlin - portrait of an unfinished city. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04744-8 .

Fiction

Articles and essays (selection)

literature

  • Alois Prinz: The poetic person in the shadow of utopia. Wuerzburg 1990.
  • Colin Riordan (Ed.): Peter Schneider. Cardiff 1995.
  • Markus Meik: Peter Schneider's story “Lenz”. Siegen, Carl Böschen Verlag 1997. ISBN 3-932212-09-6 .
  • Elizabeth Snyder Hook: Family secrets and the contemporary German novel, Rochester. NY 2001.
  • Gundula M. Sharman: Twentieth century reworkings of German literature. Rochester, NY 2002.
  • Stefanie Rübbert: Can the stranger still be saved? Does their monotonization mean trivializing the homecoming? in: Helge Baumann, Maria Rossdal, Michael Weise, Stephanie Zehnle (eds.): Have you already flown tired? Travel and homecoming as cultural anthropological phenomena. Marburg 2010, pp. 175-187. ISBN 978-3-8288-2184-2 .
  • Paul Michael Lützeler (ed.): Fantasy and criticism: Peter Schneider for his 65th birthday. A commemorative publication. Rowohlt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-87134-948-5 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bookpedia.de
  2. ↑ Deutschlandfunk “Reading Time” of January 29, 2020
  3. ↑ Review by Andreas Kilb : Die Tragödie einer Glückseucherin faz.net, May 31, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck