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German writer (born 1944)

Bernhard Schlink (German:[ˈbɛʁn.haʁtʃlɪŋk]^ⓘ; born 6 July 1944)^[1] is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist.

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Bernhard schlink biography

Schlink began his writing career with a series of crime novels and still draws on his other life, as a professor of law and practising judge.

Bernhard Schlink is a German Author, Professor, and Judge, born in in Bielefeld, Germany.

He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

Early life

He was born in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to a German father (Edmund Schlink) and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children.

His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology student of his father, whom she married in 1938.

Bernhard Schlink is a respected judge and professor of constitutional law in his native Germany, but it is as a writer of mystery novels that he became known.

(Edmund Schlink's first wife had died in 1936.) Bernhard's father had been a seminary professor and pastor in the anti-Nazi Confessing Church. In 1946, he became a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University, where he would serve until his retirement in 1971.

Over the course of four decades, Edmund Schlink became one of the most famous and influential Lutheran theologians in the world and a key