A January 2008 literary tour, including an appearance in San Francisco for City Arts & Lectures, was canceled due to Schlink's recovery from minor surgery. In 2000, Schlink published a collection of short fiction called Flights of Love. In 1999 it was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt. In 1997, it won the Hans Fallada Prize, a German literary award, and the Prix Laure Bataillon for works translated into French. 1 position in the New York Times bestseller list. It was the first German book to reach the No. The book became a bestseller both in Germany and the United States and was translated into 39 languages. In 1995, he published The Reader ( Der Vorleser), a novel about a teenager who has an affair with a woman in her thirties who suddenly vanishes but whom he meets again as a law student when visiting a trial about war crimes. One of these, Die gordische Schleife, won the Glauser Prize in 1989. His career as a writer began with several detective novels with the main character named Selb-a play on the German word for "self"-(the first, Self's Punishment, co-written with Walter Popp being available in the UK).
He had been a law professor at the University of Bonn and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main before he started in 1992 at Humboldt University of Berlin. He worked as a scientific assistant at the Universities of Darmstadt, Bielefeld and Freiburg. Schlink studied law at the University of Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin.
Among Schlink's academic students are Stefan Korioth and Ralf Poscher. Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin. He studied law at West Berlin's Free University, graduating in 1968.
Bernhard Schlink was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of two. Over the course of four decades, Edmund Schlink became one of the most famous and influential Lutheran theologians in the world and a key participant in the modern Ecumenical Movement. In 1946, he became a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University, where he would serve until his retirement in 1971. (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. His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology student of his father, whom she married in 1938. He was born in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to a German father ( Edmund Schlink) and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. Bernhard Schlink ( German: ( listen) born 6 July 1944) is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist.
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