Rüdiger Bernhardt (born 8 September 1940) is a German Germanist and Scandinavist.
Born in Dresden, Bernhardt was a Germanist at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg until 1993. Among other things he dealt with works by Peter Hille, among them with the Seegesicht.[1]
As unofficial collaborator (IME) under the code name "Faust", he provided the Stasi with expert opinions on manuscripts by authors for many years; he thus influenced printing permission procedure of the censorship in East Germany. As a result of an evaluation of a text by Detlef Opitz by the Stasi secret expert, the Opitz text was not printed and led to State reprisals.[2][3][4] Bernhardt worked as a Stasi-IM from 1976 to 1989. The files contain 13 typewritten reports, 41 tape copies, 49 oral reports and 60 meeting reports of the agent handling by him. In addition to his expert reports, he reported on the German Studies/Art Studies Section at the University of Halle and on more than 30 persons.[5]
Bernhardt is a member of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
Further reading
edit- Joachim Walther: Sicherungsbereich Literatur. Schriftsteller und Staatssicherheit in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Ullstein Verlag Nr. 26553). Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-26553-7, p. 325.
References
edit- ^ Rüdiger Bernhardt, Das Geheimnis des "Seegesichts" von Peter Hille, in Peter-Hille-Blätter 1994, p. 43–71. The text is available for download as pdf on the page of the Peter-Hille-Gesellschaft. The poem was printed on p. 47.
- ^ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: Jahrestag der Bücherverbrennung "Er ist ein Mann vom Fach", 7 May 2003
- ^ Norbert Mecklenburg: Der Prophet der Deutschen: Martin Luther im Spiegel der Literatur, p. 223
- ^ Der Prophet der Deutschen: Martin Luther im Spiegel der Literatur
- ^ Joachim Walther: Security Area Literature. Writer and State Security in the Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Ullstein Verlag. Nr. 26553), Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-26553-7, p. 590.
External links
edit- Literature by and about Rüdiger Bernhardt in the German National Library catalogue
- Jahrestag der Bücherverbrennung "Er ist ein Mann vom Fach", 7 May 2003