Peter Schneider

Peter Schneider was born in 1940 in Lübeck, spent his childhood in Königsberg, in Saxony and near Garmisch, then grew up in Freiburg. He studied German studies, history and philosophy in Freiburg, Munich and Berlin, wrote speeches for the Social Democratic campaign in 1965, then became one of the spokesmen of the Berlin student movement. Barred from teaching in 1973 because of his activism, a decision overturned in 1976, he lived by his pen, taught several times at American universities and died in Berlin in 2026.

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• NarrativeThe Wall JumperDer MauerspringerPeter Schneider · 1982Literature