Dr. Bernhard Kegel
Bernhard Kegel was the first FMS Writer in Residence at the HWK in 2013, when he began
his research for both a novel and a work of non-fiction at the Leibniz Center for
Tropical Marine Ecology, an FMS partner. He holds a doctorate in biology and is the
author of three popular science books and five novels, most recently Tier in der
Stadt, about Berlin’s wild animals, and the mystery novel, Ein tiefer Fall,
a story of deep sea microbiology and scientific misconduct. The recipient of numerous
awards for his writing, including the Brandenburgischer Literaturpreis Umwelt, and
the Inge und Werner Grüter-Preis für Wissenschaftspublizistik, Dr. Kegel is a founding
member of the FMS Novelists Network.