Alfred Schreiber was born in Düsseldorf (Germany) in 1946, studied mathematics and philosophy, and received his doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1974. He held post-doc positions at the Pädagogische Hochschule Rheinland and, after habilitation in 1981, as ``Privatdozent'' at the RWTH Aachen. After a two-year interlude as a software developer in the private sector, he received a full professorship at the University of Flensburg in 1986, where he taught and researched for more than two decades. His interests include epistemological topics in mathematics education, media informatics, enumerative combinatorics, and a wide range of interdisciplinary aspects of mathematics. He is also active as a literary author and translator. Two anthologies of mathematical poems edited by him have been published in 2010/12 by Springer Verlag.