Bernd Brunner

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Bernd Brunner (born May 27, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German author .

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After completing a bank apprenticeship, Bernd Brunner first studied business administration at the HWR Berlin, then American studies and cultural studies at the Free University of Berlin , the Humboldt University and, as a DAAD scholarship holder, at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. After internships at ZDF, Deutsche Welle tv and Arte Strasbourg, he worked as an author and television editor (Holtzbrinck Fernsehproduktion), as a magazine editor (IHK Berlin) and as a non-fiction editor (Murmann Verlag, Hamburg).

Brunner lectured at the Goethe Institutes in San Francisco and Washington, at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, at the Botanical Garden at the University of California at Berkeley, at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts and Culture in New York City and at the University of Zurich .

His book topics move at the intersection of the history of culture, science and mentality. He also writes for newspapers and magazines, including Süddeutsche Zeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Zeit und Zeit Wissen . His contribution, The Wild Dogs of Istanbul , originally published by The Smart Set , was selected for the anthology Best American Travel Writing 2013 (edited by Elizabeth Gilbert , published by Houghton Mifflin ). Several of his books have also appeared in the USA / UK, Italy, Spain, France, Norway, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea.

In 2016 he became a Fellow and non-fiction resident of the Carey Institute for Global Good in New York. His books "Ornithomania", "When the winters were still winter" and "The invention of the north" were selected by "New Books in German" and recommended for translation into English.

Works

  • How the sea came home The invention of the aquarium. Transit, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-88747-184-9 (revised paperback edition, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-2653-5 ). ( Review: Turtle Diary now! , FAZ of October 7, 2003)
    English edition: The Ocean at Home. An Illustrated History of the Aquarium. Translated from the German by Ashley Marc Slapp. Princeton Architectural Press, New York City 2005, ISBN 1-56898-502-9 (Revised paperback Reaction Books, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-86189-816-6 ).
  • A brief history of the bears. Claassen, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-546-00395-0 .
    English language edition: Bears. A brief history. Translated from German by Lori Lantz. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007, ISBN 0-300-12299-3 .
  • To America. The history of German emigration. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59184-6 .
  • Bear and human. The story of a relationship. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23098-3 .
  • Moon. A brief history. Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2010, ISBN 0-300-15212-4 .
  • Moon. The story of a fascination. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88897-732-9 .
  • The invention of the Christmas tree. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2011 ( Insel-Bücherei 1347), ISBN 978-3-458-19347-0 .
  • Inventing the Christmas Tree. Translated from the German by Benjamin A. Smith. Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-18652-9 .
  • The art of lying down. Handbook of the horizontal life form. Verlag Galiani Berlin at Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86971-051-8 .
  • The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living. Translated from German by Lori Lantz. Melville House, New York, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-61219-309-0 .
  • Ornithomania. Story of a special passion. Verlag Galiani Berlin at Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86971-117-1 .
  • Birdmania. A Remarkable Passion for Birds . Translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst. Greystone Books, Vancouver and Berkeley 2017, ISBN 978-1-77164-277-4 .
  • When winters were still winter. Story of a season. Verlag Galiani Berlin at Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-129-4 .
  • The pomegranate book . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2018 (Insel-Bücherei 1444), ISBN 978-3-458-19444-6 .
  • Winter joy. Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season . Translated from the German by Mary Catherine Lawler. Greystone Books, Vancouver and Berkeley 2019, ISBN 978-1-77164-352-8 .
  • Moon and man. The story of a special relationship . AT Verlag, Aarau and Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03800-036-5 .
  • The invention of the north. Cultural history of a cardinal point . Verlag Galiani Berlin at Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86971-192-8 .

Translations:

  • John Bainbridge: The Super Americans. Translated from American English by Bernd Brunner. Transit, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88747-193-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the winters were still winter - Bernd Brunner - Kiepenheuer & Witsch. In: www.kiwi-verlag.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin