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Bernhard Schlink
Foto: Gaby Gerster / © Diogenes Verlag

Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink, born in 1944, was a Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy and a former judge at the Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia. His first novel, Self's Justice, was published in 1987; his 1995 novel The Reader, translated into more than fifty languages and adapted by Stephen Daldry into a film starring Kate Winslet, established his worldwide renown. He has been awarded with national and international prizes like the German ›Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Merit) 1st Class‹, the French ›Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Legion d’Honneur‹ and the Italian ›Grinzane Cavour Prize‹. His latest novel is The Late Life.

Movie Adaptations
  • Das Wochenende, Nina Grosse, 2011
  • The Reader, Stephen Daldry, 2009
  • The Other Man, Richard Eyre, 2008
  • Der Tod kam als Freund, Nico Hoffmann, 1991
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Awards
  • Spanische Übersetzung von Die Enkelin mit dem ›Premio de las Librerias de Navarra‹ ausgezeichnet, 2024
  • ›Pak Kyong-ni Prize‹ der südkoreanischen Kulturstiftung Toji für sein schriftstellerisches Schaffen, 2014
  • ›Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse‹ für Der Vorleser, 2003
  • ›Preis des German-British Forum‹ für sein Gesamtwerk, 2002
  • Finnischer Literaturpreis ›Eeva Joenpelto-Preis‹ der Gemeinde Lohja, 2001
  • Ernennung zum ›Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur‹, 2001
  • ›Ehrengabe‹ der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft in Düsseldorf, 2000
  • ›Sonderkulturpreis‹ der japanischen Tageszeitung Mainichi Shinbun, der jedes Jahr an einen japanischen Buchbestseller vergeben wird, für Der Vorleser, 2000
  • ›Evangelischer Buchpreis‹ des Deutschen Verbandes Evangelischer Büchereien für Der Vorleser, 2000
  • Erstmals verliehener ›WELT-Literaturpreis‹ für sein literarisches Schaffen, 1999
  • ›Grinzane-Cavour-Preis‹ (Italien) für Der Vorleser, 1997
  • ›Prix Laure Bataillon‹ (Frankreich) für Der Vorleser (Auszeichnung für den Autor sowie für den Übersetzer Bernard Lortholary), 1997
  • ›Hans-Fallada-Preis‹ der Stadt Neumünster für Der Vorleser, 1997
  • ›Deutscher Krimi-Preis‹ des Bochumer Krimi Archivs für Selbs Betrug, 1993
  • Autorenpreis deutschsprachige Kriminalliteratur ›Der Glauser‹ für Die gordische Schleife, 1989
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»Schlink knows the depths of the human soul all too well. The writer and judge proves with each of his books that he knows how to transform German history into literature.«

ZeitPunkt, Leipzig

»Schlink has won his huge popular following by bringing to bear a penetrating intelligence about the psyche of his characters and an empathy for their dilemmas. Professor Schlink may be an expert on the letter of the law, but writer Schlink is an intrepid explorer of the much trickier terrain of the human heart.«

Andrew Nagorski / Newsweek, London

»The German novelist Bernhard Schlink is pretty much second to none when it comes to storytelling.«

Helmut Atteneder / Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Linz

»One of the most successful and versatile German writers of our time.«

Volker Hage / Der Spiegel, Hamburg

»[Schlink] writes instructive tales that adeptly raise difficult questions and propose appealing answers.«

New York Times Book Review

»The truly masterly aspect of Schlink's prose is its intelligence – an intelligence that is firmly rooted in common sense.«

Welt am Sonntag, Hamburg

»Schlink knows the depths of the human soul all too well. The writer and judge proves with each of his books that he knows how to transform German history into literature.«

ZeitPunkt, Leipzig

»Schlink has won his huge popular following by bringing to bear a penetrating intelligence about the psyche of his characters and an empathy for their dilemmas. Professor Schlink may be an expert on the letter of the law, but writer Schlink is an intrepid explorer of the much trickier terrain of the human heart.«

Andrew Nagorski / Newsweek, London

»The German novelist Bernhard Schlink is pretty much second to none when it comes to storytelling.«

Helmut Atteneder / Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Linz

»One of the most successful and versatile German writers of our time.«

Volker Hage / Der Spiegel, Hamburg

»[Schlink] writes instructive tales that adeptly raise difficult questions and propose appealing answers.«

New York Times Book Review

»The truly masterly aspect of Schlink's prose is its intelligence – an intelligence that is firmly rooted in common sense.«

Welt am Sonntag, Hamburg
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Gerechtigkeit
Bernhard Schlink
Justice
Nonfiction / 208 pages
2026
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Das späte Leben
Bernhard Schlink
The Late Life
Contemporary Literature / 240 pages
2024
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Die Enkelin
Bernhard Schlink
The Granddaughter
Contemporary Literature / 368 pages
2021
Im Warenkorb
20. Juli
Bernhard Schlink
The 20th of July
Contemporary Literature / 96 pages
2021
Im Warenkorb
Abschiedsfarben
Bernhard Schlink
Colours of Farewell
Contemporary Literature / 240 pages
2020
Im Warenkorb
Olga
Bernhard Schlink
Olga
Contemporary Literature / 320 pages
2018
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Erkundungen
Bernhard Schlink
Explorations
Contemporary Literature / 288 pages
2015
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Die Frau auf der Treppe
Bernhard Schlink
The Woman on the Stairs
Contemporary Literature / 256 pages
2014
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Gedanken über das Schreiben
Bernhard Schlink
Thoughts on Writing
Contemporary Literature / 96 pages
2011
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Sommerlügen
Bernhard Schlink
Summer Lies
Contemporary Literature / 288 pages
2010
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Das Wochenende
Bernhard Schlink
The Weekend
Contemporary Literature / 240 pages
2008
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Vergangenheitsschuld
Bernhard Schlink
Guilt of the Past
Contemporary Literature / 192 pages
2007
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Die Heimkehr
Bernhard Schlink
The Homecoming
Contemporary Literature / 384 pages
2006
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Vergewisserungen
Bernhard Schlink
Verifications
History, Current Affairs / 368 pages
2005
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Selbs Mord
Bernhard Schlink
Self's Murder
Crime Fiction / 272 pages
2001
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Liebesfluchten
Bernhard Schlink
Flights of Love
Contemporary Literature / 320 pages
2000
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Der Vorleser
Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
Contemporary Literature / 208 pages
1995
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Selbs Betrug
Bernhard Schlink
Self's Deception
Crime Fiction / 304 pages
1992
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Die gordische Schleife
Bernhard Schlink
The Gordian Knot
Crime Fiction / 272 pages
1988
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Selbs Justiz
Bernhard Schlink & Walter Popp
Self's Punishment
Crime Fiction / 352 pages
1987
Im Warenkorb
Justice
The Late Life
The Granddaughter
The 20th of July
Colours of Farewell
Olga
Explorations
The Woman on the Stairs
Thoughts on Writing
Summer Lies
The Weekend
Guilt of the Past
The Homecoming
Verifications
Self's Murder
Flights of Love
The Reader
Self's Deception
The Gordian Knot
Self's Punishment
Abschiedsfarben
Selbs Betrug
Gedanken über das Schreiben
Der Vorleser
Das späte Leben
Der Vorleser
Selbs Justiz
Liebesfluchten
Abschiedsfarben
Liebesfluchten
Sommerlügen
Sommerlügen
Das Wochenende
Das späte Leben
Die Heimkehr
Das Wochenende
Die Frau auf der Treppe
Der Seitensprung
Die Heimkehr
Olga
Erkundungen
Selbs Mord
Die Enkelin
Die Enkelin
20. Juli
Olga
Die Enkelin
Selbs Justiz
Die Frau auf der Treppe