Dr. Thomas Schneider is director of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center situated in the Peace City of Osnabrück, Germany. Referring to the international reputation of the world famous pacifist German author Erich Maria Remarque, Thomas Schneider offers a perspective on the relevance of peace museums and their networking on a local as well as global level.
Being an expert on the representation of war and peace in the media of the 20th and 21st centuries, Thomas Schneider and the Remarque Peace Center are members of the International Network of Museums for Peace, founding members the European Network of Peace Historians and the network Places of the History of Democracy. Since 1989 he is editor of the international Yearbook of War and Literature and author of numerous studies on war and the media; he is teaching literature and cultural studies at Osnabrück University and the University of the Bundeswehr, Munich.