He has taught in Freiburg, Bonn, and Frankfurt and is aregular visitor at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. From 1988 to 2006, he sat on theConstitutional Law Court for the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen,Munster. Sven Birkerts, editor of AGNI, the literary journal published at Boston University, introduced Schlink.īernhard Schlink, a professor of public law at the Humboldt Universityof Berlin, was born in Germany in 1944.
Mark Feeney, an arts writer and photography reviewer for the Boston Globe, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, moderated the discussion. Schlink’s talk was sponsored by BU’s Institute for Human Scienceswith the support of the Humanities Foundation. The narrator then appears to shifts gears, proclaiming that being sick as a child is such an enchanted. The previous week, he had tried not to think of her, but as he is still unable to attend school because of his hepatitis, he found himself with little else to do. “I think it islearned mostly by living, and daily experience,” he says. The next week, Michael returns to Frau Schmitz ’s apartment.
Andwhile he agrees that moral courage is a good lesson to learn, he doubtshow much of it can be taught in this didactic way. Edmund Schlink (father) Bernhard Schlink ( German: bn.hat lk ( listen) born 6 July 1944) 1 is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. The Reader, or Der Vorleser in German, is the kind of book that can keep you hooked until the last page, until the last word. A 15-year-old boy called Michael Berg meets and starts an affair with a 36-year-old woman Hanna Schmitz. “We accused older generations of alack of moral courage and individual moral failings,” he says. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - book review, analysis and short summary. “The Holocaust has becomesmall change that is easily handed out,” he says.Īnother aspect of Holocaust remembrance that Schlink discusses ishis generation’s tendency to draw a moral lesson, rather than aninstitutional one, from the past. Overly repeated “lessons”about it in school and countless analogies to it in discussions ofmodern atrocities and current tragedies, he believes, have led to adeadened response among younger Germans. For Germans in everyfacet of society, from business to law to medicine to the arts, “thepast at one time or another was or still is our topic,” he says.īut confronting this kind of a horrific period in the history ofone’s nation is no simple task, Schlink says. Click here to watch Bernhard Schlink on BUniverse.īernhard Schlink, a lawyer by training, who took up fiction writing and is known primarily for his best-selling novel The Reader(currently a film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes) discusseshis generation of Germans - those born at the tail end of World War IIor in the immediate postwar years - and how they approached the memoryand lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust.
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