Esther Dischereit grew up in post-war West Germany, the daughter of a mother who survived the Holocaust in hiding and a German father. After her parents’ divorce and her mother’s death she lived with her father and his new family. Her participation in the political unrest of 1968 prevented her from teaching in public schools. She apprenticed as a typesetter and worked in print shops, becoming active in the trade unions. After German reunification in 1989 she moved to Berlin with her two daughters and became a full-time writer, performer, and teacher. She is a critical observer of multi-cultural German society and serves as an intermediary especially between Germany and the United States.