Ulrich Schreiber


Ulrich Schreiber is the founder and director of the International Literature Festival Berlin and - together with Hans Ruprecht - founder and director of the International Literature Festival Odessa.

Biography

Schreiber apprenticed as a mason and later gained his GCE by attending evening school. After completing a course in Construction Engineering, he was granted the higher education entrance qualification. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Russian at the Free University of Berlin from 1973 to 1981 and successfully completed his teacher training in Celle in 1984.
From 1979 to 1981 he was an editor of the left-wing journal "Moderne Zeiten". He was a co-founder of the "Berliner Volksuniversität" in 1980 and founder of the "Hamburger Volksuniversität" in 1983. In 1985, he was the director of the German-Italian cultural festival in Hamburg. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked as cultural manager and architect in charge in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin. In 1989, he founded the "Internationale Peter Weiss-Gesellschaft" which he presided over until 1998. In 1998, he organised the "Thomas-Bernhard-Tage" in Berlin.
During a poetry festival in Erlangen, the idea of a literature festival in Berlin emerged which he then founded in 2001. The international literature festival berlin is an event of the "Peter-Weiss-Stiftung für Kunst und Politik e.V.". The Berliner Festspiele Theatre is the festival center since 2005.
Furthermore, Schreiber is one of the founders of the PEN World Voices festival, The New York Festival of International Literature, a literary festival in Mumbai in 2007 and the WorldWideReading series since 2006.
Schreiber is a member of the German P.E.N. centre.
Together with the Hans Ruprecht, Ulrich Schreiber founded the International Literature Festival Odessa, which took place in Ukraine for the first time in 2015. The idea for this event emerged during a discussion in October 2013 in Romania between the two founders and the Kievan author Andrey Kurkov.
Ulrich Schreiber lives in Berlin, Germany.

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In 2015, Schreiber was awarded the decoration of "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Ministry of Culture for his "contribution to the radiance of the arts and literature in France and the world".