Jörg Bernig

'''Jörg Heinz Bernig 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 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".
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.

Reception

The German writer and physician Uwe Tellkamp on Bernig's new novel "Eschenhaus": " The artist Jörg Bernig has referred to the political issue and all the informers to where they belong. That is not only exemplary in human terms. Such a book from all the attacks that Attitude snooping, deriving from the base is an achievement in itself in the actual, the artistic achievement. The book is a masterpiece.I lived with the characters, their cautious, doubtful truth, which may be ignored or dismissed, but remain - the prophecy convinces with enough reality. "Eschenhaus" is a novel whose format and aesthetic qualities one should be able to appreciate even if his worldview contradicts his own. Bernig has succeeded in a coup, a book that will last."

Awards

2000 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize from the city of Bad Homburg v.d.H.
2001 Else-Heiliger-Fellowship
2002 Writer in Residence, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
2003 Arras Prize for Arts and Culture
2005 sponsorship award for the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
2005 Sudeten German Culture Prize for literature
2007 scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2008 grant from the German Literature Fund
2011 Eichendorff Literature Prize
2013 Art Prize of the district town of Radebeul
2013 Writer-in-Residence, University of Wales, Swansea
2014 scholarship holder of the Prague House of Literature for German-language authors
2016 3rd Kamenzer Speech in St. Annen
2018 Poet in Residence, Dresden
2022 Andreas Gryphius Prize

Poetry of Bernig in music

2017 "Bömischer Friedhof" from "in untergegangenen reichen", composed by Daniel Hensel as Op.30 "Bohemian Cemetery", for soprano and orchestra after Jörg Bernig
2021-2022 "wüten gegen die stunden" composed by Daniel Hensel in the 1st symphony "A song in the higher choir. From the deep I call LORD to you"; electro-acoustic, dedicated to the memory of my father; Speaker Jörg Bernig and Anna-Maximiliane Geraldine Hensel; funded by NEUSTART KULTUR "Stipendienprogramm 2021" of the GERMAN German federal ministry for culture and GEMA; Original broadcast on September 22, 2022, at 10:05 p.m. on BR Klassik, composed 2021–2022, based on a eulogy by Anna-Maximiliane Geraldine Hensel and poems from "wüten gegen die stunden" by Jörg Bernig