Bernhard Kegel

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Bernhard Kegel at the presentation of his book “Der Rote” on January 30, 2008 in the Berlin Natural History Museum

Bernhard Alexander Kegel (born December 23, 1953 in Berlin ) is a German writer .

Life

Bernhard Kegel studied chemistry and biology at the Free University of Berlin . After completing his studies, he was a research assistant at the university. In 1991 he received his doctorate with the thesis field and laboratory studies on the effects of herbicides on epigeous arthropods , especially ground beetles (Col .: Carabidae) . He has been a full-time writer since 1996. As a jazz guitarist he played guitar and sitar with the jazz bands Riff , Acoustic Guitar Orchestra Berlin , Die Elefanten , uTe kA Band and Animato . He also played a jazz composer with the Querbeet combo .

Writing

The specialty of Bernhard Kegel's literary production is that he firstly publishes professionally competent non-fiction books and secondly, novels with a scientific background. His first novel, Wenzels Pilz , published in 1993, uses an environmental catastrophe in Norway to demonstrate the uncontrollability of genetic engineering in the field. In the novel Das Ölschieferskelett (1996) he explains evolutionary knowledge as well as fauna, flora and geology in the Eocene 50 million years ago with the help of the Messel pit and a journey through time . His third novel Sexy Sons (2001) is about cloning . His 2007 novel The Red describes a natural disaster off Kaikoura , New Zealand, and brings the reader closer to squids . The novel was also published as El rojo by Planeta in a Spanish translation. His 2012 novel, A Deep Fall , is about counterfeiting in science.

In his non-fiction book Epigenetics (2009), Kegel took up a current topic from epigenetic research , in his non-fiction book The Rulers of the World (2015) current research on the understanding of all living beings as holobionts .

For his books, Kegel repeatedly draws on the expertise of ecologist colleagues and is in close contact with the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen . In 2013 the ZMT described him as a kind of " embedded writer " .

For the non-fiction book Käfer (2019), Kegel goes back to an important topic of his early years, because as a collector and cataloger of beetles his path to biology began.

Awards

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Kegel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography on his website
  2. ↑ with the group Animato 1996 CD "Cosmopolitan", until 1997 contributed to 5 CDs
  3. ↑ CD Animato October 1994, Label: Biber Records
  4. ↑ Discogs
  5. ↑ ZMT-Newsletter 1/2013, page 3 ( Memento of November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF , English; 562 kB)
  6. ↑ Bernhard Kegel on his “Käfer” book: “Gregor Samsa is not an insect!” , Deutschlandfunkkultur.de from November 4, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019
  7. ↑ Brandenburg Environment Literature Prize 1997
  8. ↑ Speech on the occasion of the award of the Werner and Inge Grüter Prize for Science Communication on September 16, 2001 in Berlin at the Medical History Museum
personal data
SURNAME Kegel, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kegel, Bernhard Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin