Ulrich Schreiber

Ulrich Schreiber, born in 1951 in Solingen, is a German cultural manager. He is the founder and, until 2023, was the director of the international literature festival berlin (ilb). In 2015, together with Hans Ruprecht, he founded the international literature festival odessa, which, due to the war, has been held abroad since 2023, most recently in Krakow in 2025. Schreiber was a co-initiator of the PEN World Voices Festival in New York as well as a literature festival in Mumbai. Since 2006, he has also organized Worldwide Readings and Screenings on political issues. In recognition of his contributions to the promotion of the arts and literature, Schreiber was named a “Chevalier” of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2015.