Rüdiger Bernhardt

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Rüdiger Bernhardt (born September 8, 1940 in Dresden ) is a German Germanist and Scandinavian scholar .

Rüdiger Bernhardt was a Germanist at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg until 1993 . Among other things, he dealt with the works of Peter Hilles , including the face of the lake .

As an unofficial employee (IME) with the code name “Faust”, he provided the Stasi with expert opinions on manuscripts by authors for years ; In doing so, he influenced the GDR censors' printing approval procedures . As a result of an evaluation of a text by Detlef Opitz by the Stasi secret expert, the Opitz text was not printed and he was subjected to state reprisals . Bernhardt worked as a Stasi IM from 1976 to 1989. In the files there are 13 typed reports, 41 tape copies, 49 oral reports and 60 meeting reports from the command officers . In addition to his reports, he reported on the German Studies / Art Studies section at the University of Halle and on more than 30 people.

Bernhardt is a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin . In 1985 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .

literature

  • Joachim Walther : Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic (= Ullstein. No. 26553). Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-26553-7 , p. 325.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Bernhardt, The Secret of the "Seegesichts" by Peter Hille , in: Peter-Hille-Blätter 1994, pp. 43–71. The text is available for download as a PDF on the Peter Hille Society website . The poem was reprinted on page 47.
  2. ^ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung : Anniversary of the book burning "He is a man from the field" , May 7, 2003
  3. ^ Norbert Mecklenburg : "The Prophet of the Germans: Martin Luther in the Mirror of Literature", p. 223
  4. Joachim Walther : Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic (= Ullstein. No. 26553). Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-26553-7 , p. 590.