Jörg Bernig

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Jörg Bernig (born January 17, 1964 in Wurzen ) is a German narrator and poet . His election as head of the cultural office of the Saxon city of Radebeul in May 2020, which was later revoked , caused a nationwide controversy.

biography

After completing his professional training as a miner with a high school diploma , Bernig did his military service . From 1985 to 1990 Bernig studied German and English at the University of Leipzig . He then went as an assistant teacher at a grammar school in Dunfermline in Scotland , then, until 1993, as a lecturer at the Department of German Studies at the University of Wales in Swansea . After his return to Germany, he was awarded a doctorate in 1996 at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the Battle of Stalingrad in the German-language novel after 1945. phil. PhD . This was followed by freelance work as an editor at the Dresden literary magazine Ostragehege and as a lecturer and employee in cultural studies research projects at the TU Dresden . He has lived in Radebeul , Saxony , since 1995 , where all of his literary works were created. He has been a freelance writer since 1999.

From 2008 Jörg Bernig invited authors who were friends to the reading event in Kötzschenbroda in the parish hall of the Peace Church in Radebeul . Reiner Kunze , Ulrich Schacht , Bernhard Schlink , Barbara von Wulffen and others read about the event, which he initially (no longer moderated in 2014) . a. In 2013, Bernig was awarded the art prize of the major district town of Radebeul .

Political classification

According to critics, Bernig represents "anti-migration and Islamophobic theses and thoughts" that are "close to the AfD and Pegida thinking". Bernig himself understands his point of view as non-partisan, while u. a. classify the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Tagesspiegel , the Spiegel or the Deutschlandfunk as representatives of the New Right . According to the Tagesspiegel, Bernig publishes in the journal Sezession , which belongs to the institute for state policy classified as a suspected right-wing extremist case by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

In December 2015 he presented his socio-political point of view in the essay Zorn in the Sächsische Zeitung everywhere . He claims there, for example, that "we are again in a situation in which the government and large parts of the media world rule against the people." He made a similar statement in his 2016 Kamenz speech, broadcast by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , where he also praised the commitment of volunteers who take care of asylum seekers.

He renewed his criticism of the federal government's immigration policy in a panel discussion held by the CDU district association in Radebeul in October 2018. His criticism has not spared the media's handling of German refugee policy since 2015 . This is also sharply criticized in the so-called Joint Declaration 2018 , of which Bernig was one of the first signatories.

Head of culture department election in Radebeul

On May 20, 2020, after an application and selection process against the candidate of the administration as a candidate of the city council, Bernig was elected head of the city of Radebeul's cultural office.

His choice led to nationwide opposition, as critics attested that he was close to the New Right . Four of the total of 24 Radebeul Art Prize winners , Helmut Raeder (2011), Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge (2003), Günter "Baby" Sommer (2002) and Herbert Graedtke (2006), announced on May 23, 2020 that they wanted to return their awards, should Bernig be introduced to office. The German PEN Center , to which Bernig has been a member since 2005, asked him on May 25, 2020 "to check to what extent he can fulfill his obligation to the PEN Charter and, if necessary, to draw the necessary conclusions".
On May 29, Uwe Tellkamp sent a letter of support for Bernig to the Mayor of Radebeul, which the actor Uwe Steimle and the member of the German PEN center Sebastian Kleinschmidt had joined.

On May 25, 2020, the Mayor of Radebeul, Bert Wendsche , appealed against the election of Bernig to the council of elders in accordance with Section 52 (2) sentence 1 of the Saxon municipal code, as the decision was disadvantageous for the municipality.

On June 11, 2020, Bernig withdrew his application. In a letter to the Mayor of Radebeul, he complained about the suppression of unpleasant thinking and uncomfortable positions. In his opinion, “the tools used” came from the “repertoire of the totalitarian”. On June 15, 2020, the city council elected the administration's candidate, Annaberg-Buchholz's head of cultural affairs, Gabriele Lorenz, a Romance scholar, Germanist and ethnologist, as the future Radebeul head of office by a “large majority” .

Works

Literary

  • Winter children. Poems. Verlag Die Scheune, Dresden 1998, ISBN 978-3-931684-16-7 .
  • Behind it the silence. Novel. DVA, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-421-05215-5 .
  • ticket to the gods. Poems. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-931883-22-5 .
  • No man's time. Novel. DVA, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-421-05588-0 .
    • Translation into Czech: Čas nikoho. Mladá Fronta, Prague / Praha 2005 - Translator: Jana Kudělková, ISBN 80-204-1244-1 .
    • Translation into Romanian: Vremea Nimănui. [in preparation], preprint in: Orizont 5/2006 - Translator: Ruxandra Buglea.
    • Translation into Polish: Ziemia niczyja, bezpański czas. Wydawnictwo Via Nova, Breslau / Wrocław 2015 - Translator: Małgorzata Słabicka.
  • Neither ebb nor flow. Novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-464-5 .
  • The first days. Stories. Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-931883-61-4 .
  • rage against the hours. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2009 (2nd edition 2009), ISBN 978-3-89812-604-5 .
  • Contribution in: I have nothing but the word - Contributions to the work of Hanns Cibulka. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2010, ISBN 978-3-94020-056-3 .
  • The Gablonzer glass button. Essays from Central Europe. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942411-47-9 .
  • flower angel ship. selected poems. [Transl. Tom Cheesman and others] Hafan Books, Swansea 2013, ISBN 978-0-9926564-0-9 .
  • Different. Novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-313-6 .
  • in submerged realms. Poetry book. Edition rugerup, 2017.
  • No man's world. Seven news from Central Europe. Thelem, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-939888-89-5 .
  • as editor together with Wojciech Browarny, Christian Prunitsch: "The beautiful remnants after the end of the world." Sudeten. Literary. In it by Bernig: "Zurüstungen", Thelem, Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3-945363-49-2 .
  • travel trip. Poems. Literary Dresden e. V., edition buchhaus loschwitz, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-9816210-9-9 .
  • At the everyday corner, essays. Edition BuchHaus Loschwitz, Dresden 2020, ISBN 9783982013176 .

Scientific

  • Encircled. The battle for Stalingrad in the German-language novel after 1945. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M., New York a. a. 1997 (Diss.), ISBN 978-0-8204-3667-8 .
  • The changing literary landscape. Discussions on literary culture in Saxony and East Germany 1990–2005. Edited by Jörg Bernig, Eckhard Richter and Walter Schmitz. Thelem, Dresden 2006, ISBN 978-3-933592-25-5 .
  • German-German literary exile. Writers from the GDR in the Federal Republic. Edited by Jörg Bernig and Walter Schmitz. Thelem, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-935712-03-3 .

Sociopolitical

  • "Have courage ..." An interference . Kamenz speeches in St. Annen, 3. With a greeting from Mayor Roland Dantz and introductory words by Michael Hametner. Workplace for Lessing reception, Kamenz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817-103-3-5 .
  • When we weren't shot. In: Cicero , September 10, 2019.

Honors

Bernig was elected to the PEN Center Germany in 2005 . Since 2005 he has been a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , since 2010 a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts , and in 2013 Bernig was admitted to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . So far, he has received the following awards and grants :

literature

  • Michaela Peroutková: Vyhnání. Jeho obraz v české a německé literatuře a ve vzpomínkách. Libri, Prague 2008.
  • Ulrich Fröschle : Bernig, Jörg. In: Jürgen Joachimsthaler, Marek Zybura (ed.): Słownik współczesnych pisarzy niemieckojêzycznych. Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw 2007.
  • Valentina Glajar: Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig. In: Laurel Cohen-Pfiste, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner (eds.): Victims and Perpetrators: 1933–1945. (Re) Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006.
  • Michaela Peroutková: literary and oral stories about displacement. A German-Czech comparison. WiKu Verlag for Science and Culture, Berlin 2006.
  • Tomáš Kafka: Laudation for Jörg Bernig. In: Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony 2005. Speeches of thanks and laudations (= series of publications by the Lessing Museum Kamenz. 25th annual issue). Lessing Museum, Kamenz 2005.
  • Nicole Birtsch: Writing about unexperienced history: The representation of flight and expulsion in contemporary German literature using the example of Jörg Bernig's novel No Man's Time. In: Orbis Linguarum. 2004.
  • Rainer Neubert: The reception of the novel No Man's Time by Jörg Bernig. In: Elke Mehnert (Ed.): Grenzpfade. Materials for the 6th German-Czech Encounter Seminar Good Neighbors - Bad Neighbors? Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Bill Niven: The globalization of memory and the rediscovery of German suffering. In: Stuart Taberner (Ed.): German literature in the age of globalization. Birmingham University Press, Birmingham 2004.
  • Thomas Kraft: Bernig, Jörg. In: Derselbe (Ed.): Lexicon of contemporary German literature since 1945. Nymphenburger Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2003.
  • Barbara von Wulffen: Jörg Bernig. In: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Yearbook. Volume 16, 2002.
  • Ulrich Fröschle: Behind the silence. The writer Jörg Bernig. Portrait. In: Literature sheet for Baden and Württemberg. Volume 9, number 2, March / April 2002.
  • Christoph Perels: Assumptions about someone who fell silent. In: Magistrate of the City of Bad Homburg (Ed.): Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Speeches at the award ceremony on June 7th. Bad Homburg 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nina Schirmer: What does OB Wendsche's contradiction mean? In: Sächsische Zeitung, Meißen edition of May 27, 2020, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Events in November 2018 current program leaflet for download on facebook | current events. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The crisis comes to Labenbrod. Meissner Tageblatt, November 20, 2014, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/streit-um-kulturamtsleiter-in-radebeul-protest-aus-der.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=477443
  5. ↑ Germany, your right-wingers: fear and morals instead of arguments. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ CDU and AfD elect new right thinkers as head of culture. In: sueddeutsche.de, May 21, 2020, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  7. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/proteste-gegen-radebeuler-amtsleiter-wahl.265.de.html?drn:news_id=1134115
  8. ↑ https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/nicht-harmlos
  9. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/umstrittene-wahl-zum-kulturamtsleiter-pen-endung-neurechten-schriftsteller-zum-umhaben-auf-a-7e69b5ef-6e66-4e7e-9254-357bd46d4bc2
  10. ^ Jörg Bernig: Anger everywhere. December 21, 2015, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/joerg-bernig-radebeul-kulturamtsleiter-debatte-1.4932021
  12. ↑ 3rd Kamenz speech by Jörg Bernig, given on September 7, 2016. Accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Jörg Bernig: Have courage. In: kamenz.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Creating PDF Files . In: Web Publishing with Acrobat / PDF . Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 978-3-540-63762-2 , pp. 35–56 (4th final version J. Bernig - 3rd Kamenzer Speeche.pdf [accessed on November 28, 2018]).
  15. ^ Controversial discussion offer of the Radebeul author Jörg Bernig. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Distraught and searching. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  17. ^ Maximilian Popp, Andreas Wassermann, Steffen Winter: Regions: A right riddle . In: Der Spiegel . tape February 8 , 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 28, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Germany, your right-wingers: fear and morals instead of arguments | Free press - Panorama . ( Freiepresse.de [accessed on November 28, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Joint declaration of March 15, 2018 | Public hearing in the Petitions Committee on October 8, 2018 at 1 p.m. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Election of the head of the cultural office. In: radebeul.de. May 22, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  21. ^ Protest in Radebeul against the controversial head of the cultural office. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de, broadcast on May 22, 2020, accessed on May 23, 2020.
  22. ↑ Radebeul's cultural scene protests against the election of the head of the cultural office. In: RTL.de, May 24, 2020, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  23. ^ Riot in Radebeul: Art award winners want to return the award. In: mdr.de from May 23, 2020, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  24. ^ Statement by the PEN Presidium on Jörg Bernig. In: pen-deutschland.de, published and accessed on May 25, 2020.
  25. ↑ Radebeul: Tellkamp, ​​Thielemann and Steimle support Jörg Bernig. May 29, 2020, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Radebeul's mayor vetoed the election of a new right-wing author as head of the cultural office. In: dnn.de, published and accessed on May 25, 2020.
  27. ↑ Matthias Meisner : Bernig withdraws application as head of the Radebeul cultural office. In: Tagesspiegel . June 11, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020 .
  28. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Bernig waived. June 11, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Radebeul gets head of the cultural office: Lorenz elected. In: freiepresse.de from June 15, 2020, accessed on June 16, 2020.
  30. ↑ Gabriele Lorenz is the new head of the cultural office in Radebeul. In: mdr.de from June 15, 2020, accessed on June 16, 2020.
  31. ↑ Jörg Bernig: When we were not shot. September 10, 2019, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Ulrich Fröschle: Laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the art prize of the large district town of Radebeul to the author Jörg Bernig (abridged version) . In: Radebeuler Monatshefte eV (Ed.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . November 2013.
  33. ↑ Jörg Bernig: "Have courage" ... an interference , City of Kamenz, accessed: October 22, 2016 (full text of the speech)
  34. ↑ Jörg Bernig: "Have courage ...". 3rd Kamenz speech in St. Annen on September 7, 2016. Moderated by Michael Hametner . (No longer available online.) Workplace for Lessing reception, archived from the original on October 22, 2016 ; accessed on October 22, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Frank Oehl: Jörg Bernig speaks courage , Sächsische Zeitung , July 22, 2016
  36. ↑ poet in residence. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bernig, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German narrator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up