Title: Bernhard Schlink
Content:  He was born in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to a German father (Edmund Schlink) and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology student of his father, whom she married in 1938. (Edmund Schlink's first wife had died in 1936.) Bernhard's father had been a seminary professor and pastor in the anti-Nazi Confessing Church. In 1946, he became a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University, where he would serve until his retirement in 1971. Over the course of four decades, Edmund Schlink became one of the most famous and influential Lutheran theologians in the world and a key participant in the modern Ecumenical Movement. Bernhard Schlink was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of two. He studied law at West Berlin's Free University, graduating in 1968. Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin. He retired in January 2006.
Title: Schlink
Content: Bernhard Schlink, German jurist and writer ; Basilea Schlink, German religious leader and writer ; Edmund Schlink, German Lutheran theologian ; Frederick J. Schlink, American consumer rights activist Schlink is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: 
Title: Bernhard Schlink
Content:  Bernhard Schlink (born 6 July 1944) is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.
Title: Edmund Schlink
Content:  of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University. He would remain a member of this faculty until his retirement in 1971. Schlink was married twice. His first wife, Elisabeth Winkelmann, with whom he had two daughters, died in 1936. He married his second wife, Irmgard Oswald (1914-2006), in 1938. They had two sons, Wilhelm Schlink (d. 2018) who was an art historian, and Bernhard Schlink, who is a lawyer and novelist. Schlink's daughter, Dorothea (d. 2019), was the wife of the former bishop of the Protestant Church in Baden, Klaus Engelhardt, who was also a former chairman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Title: Edmund Schlink
Content:  Schlink was born in Darmstadt, near where his father, Wilhelm Schlink, was a professor of mechanics and aeronautics. The family of his mother, Ella, had been influenced by Herrnhut pietism. His only sibling, his sister Klara (1904-2001), who later called herself Mutter Basilea Schlink, became a popular religious writer and leader. Edmund Schlink attended public schools in Darmstadt. In 1922 he matriculated at Tübingen University, where he studied mathematics, philosophy, psychology, physics, and other natural sciences. He also attended the universities of Munich, Kiel, Vienna, and Marburg. He completed his first Ph.D. dissertation (in religious psychology) at Marburg in 1927. This dissertation explores personality changes in people 
Title: Bernhard Schlink
Content:  Schlink studied law at the University of Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin. He worked as a scientific assistant at the Universities of Darmstadt, Bielefeld and Freiburg. He had been a law professor at the University of Bonn and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main before he started in 1992 at Humboldt University of Berlin. His career as a writer began with several detective novels with the main character named Selb—a play on the German word for "self"—(the first, Self's Punishment, co-written with being available in the UK). One of these, Die gordische Schleife, won the in 1989. In 1995, he published The Reader (Der Vorleser), a novel about a teenager who has an affair with a woman in her thirties who suddenly vanishes but whom he meets again as a law student when visiting a trial about war crimes. The book became a bestseller 
Title: Bernhard Schlink
Content:  in Germany and the United States and was translated into 39 languages. It was the first German book to reach the No. 1 position in the New York Times bestseller list. In 1997, it won the Hans Fallada Prize, a German literary award, and the Prix Laure Bataillon for works translated into French. In 1999 it was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt. In 2000, Schlink published a collection of short fiction called . A January 2008 literary tour, including an appearance in San Francisco for City Arts & Lectures, was canceled due to Schlink's recovery from minor surgery. In 2008, Stephen Daldry directed a film adaptation of The Reader. In 2010, his non-fiction political history, Guilt About the Past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK). , Schlink divides his time between New York and Berlin. He is a member of PEN Centre Germany.
Title: Edmund Schlink
Content:  Edmund Schlink (3 March 1903 – 20 May 1984) was a German-Lutheran pastor and theologian. Between 1946 and his retirement in 1971 he was a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University.
Title: Basilea Schlink
Content:  Basilea Schlink was a sister of Edmund Schlink, a professor in theology. Her father Wilhelm Schlink was a professor of mechanics. After finishing high school in Braunschweig and Darmstadt, she was educated (from 1923) at the Fröbelseminar in Kassel, and from 1924 at the Inner missions girls' school in Berlin. In 1929 she became a teacher at the Mission House Malche in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) in German, psychology and church history. After matriculation in 1930 she studied psychology, art history and philosophy in Berlin and Hamburg. This study was completed by a religious-psychologic thesis about “Consciousness of Sin in adolescent girls and its significance for their battle of faith.” Schlink was president of the Women's Division of the German Student Christian Movement from 1933 to 1935, and twice interviewed by the Gestapo for her defense 
Title: Bernhard Schlink
Content: 1962 Der Andere ; 1987 Selbs Justiz (Self's Punishment; with Walter Popp) ; 1988 Die gordische Schleife (The Gordian Knot), Zurich: Diogenes ; 1992 Selbs Betrug, Zurich: Diogenes ; 1995 Der Vorleser (The Reader), Zurich: Diogenes ; 2000 Liebesfluchten (Flights of Love), Zurich: Diogenes ; 2001 Selbs Mord (Self's Murder), Zurich: Diogenes ; 2006 Die Heimkehr (Homecoming: A Novel), Zurich: Diogenes ; 2008 Das Wochenende (The Weekend: A Novel), Zurich: Diogenes ; 2010 Sommerlügen – Geschichten (~ Summer Lies: Stories), Zurich: Diogenes ; 2011 Gedanken über das Schreiben. Heidelberger Poetikvorlesungen. (Essays) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN: 978-3-257-06783-5 ; 2014 Die Frau auf der Treppe. (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN: 978-3-257-06909-9 ; 2018 Olga (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN: 978-3-257-07015-6 

Question: Who is the father of Bernhard Schlink?
Answer: Edmund Schlink.