Peter Schneider

Marike Janzen (University of Kansas)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 21 Apr 1940
Activity 1973-ongoing

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Novelist

Resources

Schneider's Works

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Peter Schneider, one of today’s foremost German novelists of international recognition, is a chronicler of his own West German generation that came of age during the 1960s, and later had to come to terms with the radical transformations of German unification. Schneider’s works are directly informed by his involvement in the student movement in the 1960s, and close observations of his adopted home of Berlin. Like many of his generation who sought to confront their parents’ complicity with Nazism, Schneider’s key preoccupation is with individual motivation, and his

oeuvre

reflects shifting understandings of what impels human action. While his early work examines individual challenges to authoritarian structures, he later explores the personal effects on his generation of Germany’s…

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Citation: Janzen, Marike. "Peter Schneider". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 October 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11833, accessed 23 November 2024.]