Peter Schneider was born in Lübeck in 1940 and grew up in Freiburg, where he studied German language and literature, history and philosophy. He is the author of short stories, novels, screenplays, reportages, essays and talks. Rights to his novel Die Lieben meiner Mutter have been sold to France, Italy and Slovakia. Most recently, he published the novel Vivaldi und seine Töchter (2019). Since 1985, Peter Schneider has been a visiting professor at various American universities, including Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and Georgetown in Washington D.C.