Bernd Hendricks

Bernd Hendricks is a Berlin-based language teacher and the author of “Ach ich fühl's – German for Opera Singers in Three Acts: Studying, Speaking, Singing,” the first book he has written in English.

Born in the German working class town Duisburg, he likes to call himself a self-made man. He began his career as a telephone worker and was formed by life, letters and languages. He had his first and everlasting opera experience as a child in the lap of his grandmother watching Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel” in the city opera of Duisburg. From the early 1980s he worked as a reporter for German newspapers and radio stations until he discovered New York. For 15 years, until 2010, he lived and worked in New York as correspondent for German magazines. Here, he met many people who were interested in the German language, mostly opera singers, stage hands, music teachers, and stage directors. When Bernd Hendricks returned to Germany in 2010, he began working on “Ach ich fühl's – German for Opera Singers” and teaching singers who aspire to perform and live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Readers of the German language may be interested in Bernd Hendricks' novels “Menschen mit Flagge” and “Illegal;” the latter is available at amazon.de.