Bernd Jaeger was born in Kiel in 1948 and lived in Bremen from 1977. In 1980 he received the Senate Literature Promotion Prize. In 2006 his trilogy Master Mensch, a collection of poems, cycles and lyrical prose appeared. He worked as a freelance writer until his death in 2025.
In his forthcoming volumeSonnenwind writes the Bremen poet Bernd Jaeger with a distancing (self-)irony about his everyday thoughts and prayers, with which he succeeds in making the readers laugh as well as make them think. In creative and political language, his poetry deals with life, faith and time. The book of poems is supplemented by the photo seriesWay to the Tree, in which the author photographs the path from his home to a beech tree, the tree of life.