Ulrich Schreiber (cultural manager)

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Ulrich Schreiber (* 1951 in Solingen ) is a German architect and cultural manager . He is the founder and director of the Berlin International Literature Festival, co-founder and co-director of the Odessa International Literature Festival.

Life

Schreiber learned the bricklaying trade, attained secondary school leaving certificate in evening courses and, after studying civil engineering, university entrance qualification. From 1973 to 1981 he studied philosophy, politics and Russian at the Free University of Berlin and passed the second state examination in Celle in 1984 .

From 1979 to 1981 he was editor of the magazine Moderne Zeiten . In 1980 he was co-founder of the Berliner and 1983 founder of the Volksuniversität in Hamburg. In 1985 he directed the German-Italian cultural festival in Hamburg. In the 1980s and 1990s he worked as a cultural manager and architect in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin. In 1989 he founded the International Peter Weiss Society , which he headed until 1998. In 1998 he organized the Thomas Bernhard Days in Berlin.

In 2001 he founded the international literature festival berlin, which is run by the Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics. V is organized.

Schreiber is one of the co-initiators of the PEN World Voices Festival, The New York Festival of International Literature and a literature festival in Mumbai 2007. He has also been organizing the worldwide readings since 2006 . Schreiber is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In 2015 he founded the Odessa International Literature Festival with Hans Ruprecht.

Ulrich Schreiber lives in Berlin.

Fonts

as an author
as editor
  • White paper for cultural policy in Hamburg. Hamburg 1986
  • Peter Weiss' world of images. Hamburg / Berlin 1995
  • Ilb anthologies and catalogs 2001–2017

Awards

  • In 2015 Schreiber was named “Chevalier” des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his “contribution to the radiance of the arts and literature in France and in the world” .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A rewarding madness . Spiegel Online , September 21, 2002
  2. ↑ Around the world with 80 authors . Berliner Zeitung , June 12, 2001
  3. ↑ Membership list of the PEN Center Germany ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pen-deutschland.de
  4. ↑ International Literature Festival Odessa (ILO), 1.-4. October 2015 , on the website of the Berlin International Literature Festival. Retrieved November 26, 2015
  5. ^ Page of the Odessa Literature Festival
personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager, director of the international literature festival
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen