Bernhard Schlink

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Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, legal scholar, and novelist best known internationally for his novel "The Reader," which explores memory, guilt, and the legacy of the Holocaust.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
lawyer
legal scholar
novelist
awardReceived Hans Fallada Prize
Prix Laure Bataillon
WELT-Literaturpreis
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1944-07-06
educatedAt Free University of Berlin
familyName Schlink
fieldOfWork law
legal philosophy
literature
genre crime fiction
novel
philosophical fiction
givenName Bernhard
languageOfWorkOrName German
movement postwar German literature
name Bernhard Schlink self-link
nationality German
notableEvent international success of The Reader in the 1990s
notableWork The Reader
surface form: Der Vorleser

Flights of Love
Homecoming
Self’s Deception
Self’s Murder
Self’s Punishment
The Reader
The Weekend
The Woman on the Stairs
occupation judge
jurist
novelist
professor
writer
placeOfBirth Bielefeld
Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
positionHeld judge at the Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia
professor of public law
sexOrGender male
theme Holocaust legacy
guilt
memory
workLocation Berlin
Bonn
New York City

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Bernhard hasNotableBearer Bernhard Schlink
The Reader authorOfSourceWork Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink name Bernhard Schlink self-link
Hanna Schmitz in The Reader createdBy Bernhard Schlink
subject surface form: Hanna Schmitz
Michael Berg creator Bernhard Schlink
Hanna Schmitz createdBy Bernhard Schlink