Peter Schneider discusses "Berlin Now: The City After the Wall"

Please join us for an
evening of wine and Hors d'oeuvres as we host  author and guest speaker Peter Schneider as
he discusses his book, Berlin Now: The City After the Wall.

Peter Schneider was
born in Lübeck, Germany, and has lived in Berlin on and off since the 1960s.

During the 1960s
Schneider experienced a political radicalization that led him to become one of
the spokespersons and organizers of the Berlin German student movement. In 1967
he was involved in the preparation of the so-called "Springer-Tribunal".
He was a member of a group aiming to found a proletarian political party and
rouse the working class. For this reason Schneider worked temporarily as an
unskilled worker in one of the Bosch-factories. Later he taught in a private
school and did freelance work in broadcasting. In 1972 he took his degree, but
in 1973 the education authorities in Berlin refused to appoint him as a trainee
teacher on account of his political activity. That decision was overturned by a
court in Berlin in 1976.

Having in the
meantime established himself as a writer, Schneider gave up the idea of
teaching. His novel Lenz, published in 1973, had become a cult text for the
German left, capturing the feelings of those disappointed by the failure of
their utopian revolt. Since then Peter Schneider has written novels, short
stories and film scripts that often deal with the fate of members of his
generation. Other works deal with the situation of Berlin before and after
German reunification. Schneider is also a major essayist.

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Peter Schneider has
taught at many American universities-including Stanford, Princeton, and
Harvard-and is the author of more than twenty books, including The Wall
Jumper and Eduard's Homecoming (FSG, 2000). He has also written for
newspapers and magazines, including Der Spiegel, The New York Times,
Le Monde, and La Repubblica. 

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Peter Schneider is sponsored by American Council on Germany
and co-sponsored by Minnesota International Center

GACC 
/ MIC Members: $30

NON-Members: $35