Ulrich Schreiber
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Ulrich Schreiber is the director of the International Literature Festival Berlin
(ILB).
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.
International literature festival berlin
right|alt=alt text|logo ILB|thumb|ILB logoThe International Literature Festival Berlin also known as ILB,is an annual event based in Berlin. The festival takes place in early autumn and its purpose is to present contemporary developments in prose and poetry from all around the world...
(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 VoicesPEN World Voices
PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature was launched in 2005. PEN World Voices is a week-long literary festival in New York City. The Festival was founded by Esther Allen and Michael Roberts under then PEN President Salman Rushdie. The Festival was composed of programs,...
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.
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
Publications
- The political theory of Antonio GramsciAntonio GramsciAntonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
, 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