Ulrich Schreiber
| Ulrich Schreiber | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1951 Solingen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Director, Publisher |
Ulrich Schreiber (born 1951 in Solingen, Germany) is the director of the International Literature Festival Berlin (ILB).
Biography
Ulrich Schreiber was born 1951 in Solingen, Germany. Schreiber apprenticed as a mason and later gained his GCE by attending evening school. After completing a course in Construction Engineering, Schreiber was granted the higher education entrance qualification. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Russian at the Free University of Berlin 1973–1981 and successfully completed his teacher training in Celle in 1984.
Career
He was a co-founder of the "Berliner Volksuniversität" in 1980 and founder of the "Hamburger Volksuniversität" in 1983. In 1985 he became the director of the German-Italian cultural festival in Hamburg. During the 1980s and 90’s he worked as cultural manager and architect in charge in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin. 1989 he founded the "Internationale Peter Weiss-Gesellschaft", whose chairman he was till 1998. In 1998 he took charge of directing of the “Thomas Bernard Tage” in Berlin. In the same year, while attending the Erlanger Poet-Festival, he felt the urge to establish a literary festival in Berlin. In 2001 he founded the ILB and has continued to be its director to the present day. He is the initiator of the WorldWideReading series, which organizes world wide readings that reflect on current debates or events, since 2006. Furthermore he is one of the founders of the PEN World Voices festival: The New York Festival of International Literature and a literary festival in Mumbai in 2007. Furthermore, since September 2009 he has curated Literaturraum, a residency for writers at Bleibtreu Hotel Berlin, which gives authors the possibility of a six-week stay in the capital city.
Ulrich Schreiber is a member of the German P.E.N. centre.[1]
WorldWideReadings
- 2006: 20 March: Eliot Weinberger "What I heard about Iraq"
- 2007: 20 March: In memoriam of Anna Politkovskaya
- 2007: 9 September: For Democracy and Media Freedom in Zimbabwe
- 2008: 20 March: Lu Xun "Remember To Forget"
- 2008: 5 October: In memoriam of Mahmoud Darwish
- 2009: 16 September: For Democracy and Freedom in Iran
- 2010: 4 June: For Liao Yiwu, and in commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre
- 2011: 20 March: For Liu Xiaobo[2]
Publications
- The political theory of Antonio Gramsci, Berlin 1980, 4th edition 1994
- Publisher of the White-Book of cultural and educational policies in Hamburg(Weißbuch für Kulturpolitik in Hamburg), Hamburg 1986
- Publisher of the Berlin anthologies and ilb catalogues of 2001-2010