Jörg Bernig

Jörg Heinz Bernig (born 17 January 1964) is a German poet, novelist and essayist.

Biography Jörg Bernig is a descendant of Sudeten German refugees. He studied at the University of Leipzig from 1985 to 1990 (German and English) after completing his apprenticeship as a miner and in the military of the GDR. He then lived in the UK for some time, where he taught at the University of Wales, Swansea. In 1996 he received his doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on German war literature. Years of activity in research projects at the Technical University of Dresden followed. In 2020, the city council of Radebeul elected him head of the cultural department in a secret ballot. An ideological campaign forced the mayor to repeat the election, for which Jörg Bernig, who was democratically elected, did not make himself available. "What to say - Explanation by Jörg Bernig"(GERMAN). Jörg Bernig has been publishing poems, novels, short prose and essays since the late 1990s. He is a member of the Bavarian, Saxon and Sudeten German Art Academies as well as the PEN Center Germany. His literary work has received awards including the Eichendorff Literature Prize and the Andreas Gryphius Prize. Jörg Bernig lives near Dresden, in Radebeul.