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Bernd Angerer is an Austrian-American film artist and aspiring writer with an enduring passion for world-challenging non-fiction narratives and short stories.

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Bernd Angerer is an Austrian-American film artist and aspiring writer with an enduring passion for world-challenging non-fiction narratives and short stories. His writer’s mind circles around the topics of modern life. Bernd loves essays and works on a nonfiction piece about his generation’s migration. Bernd is the recipient of two writing certificates from UCLA, for Screenplay and Creative Writing, enjoys long hikes in the forests, and cooking.

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Bernd Angerer is an Austrian-American film artist and aspiring writer with an enduring passion for world-challenging non-fiction narratives and short stories. While successfully crafting and directing various monsters in the movie world, he also loves writing as a more holistic form of artistic expression. His writer’s mind circles around the topics of modern life and social fiction.

In addition to writing essays on work-related details, Bernd works on his first memoir-style non-fiction piece on the topics of his generation’s global migrations.

Bernd is the recipient of two writing certificates at UCLA, for Screenplay and Creative Writing, and loves to refine his craft through a variety of workshops in California’s vibrant literary scene.

Outside of work, Bernd enjoys long hikes in the forests and cooking. He is curious about foreign cultures but dislikes flying.

My writing grew out of growing up with books and has been a way of dealing with the more difficult questions I encounter since I can remember. The call to write for external readers came much later in my creative development, with my involvement with the world of film through my work in visual arts and effects.

Working in film opened my mind to the art of screenwriting and, inspired by it, I reconnected with my inner stories. With the help of writing workshops, I found the courage to write outwardly for others, to teach and entertain with seductive visuals and dry humour, which I also find essential outside of writing.

Now, with my fiction short stories and creative non-fiction, I want to invite others to search, dream, and contemplate essential aspects of being human. The intertwining of cultures, globalised migration, and related themes such as alienation and loneliness are essential issues in the modern world. Yet they are so difficult to express. Writing, like most art forms, allows human experience to be shared across cultural and ideological boundaries, so I am always fascinated by the voices of people in difficult situations and seek to engage in dialogue with them, sometimes in the form of response essays.

My list of key writers would contain too many names to mention, but it would have to include Stanislaw Lem and Ephraim Kishon. Their curiosity and humour inspired me to look beyond the visible, material world as a child.

I hope that one day I can give my readers such unique and inspiring memories to cherish and maybe even laugh about.

I know I’m only at the beginning of this lifelong process.

I never use AI generated text blocks.

Most of the time, I write in German, but not always. I do enjoy writing in English as well. It often depends only on how I start on that day. However, for transparency, I use DeepL translation software for first passes of translations, which I then correct and quite often rephrase. This, of course, qualifies as ‘using AI’; even the originals and finals are all written by me without the help of artificially intelligent tools. I just want to have quality translations in at least the two languages I write in. Doing so is also excellent practice for my language skills.