Bernard von Brentano (15 October 1901, in Offenbach am Main – 29 December 1964, in Wiesbaden) was a German writer, poet, playwright, storyteller, novelist, essayist and journalist.
His mother, Lilla Beata née Schwerdt maternally stems from the Frankfurt line of the Brentano family.
From 1925 to 1930, he worked in the Berlin office of the Frankfurter Zeitung, where he became the successor of Joseph Roth.
He was also involved in the Association of proletarian revolutionary writers and worked for the Communist literary magazine Die Linkskurve.
Together with Berthold Brecht and Herbert Ihering he planned to edit the magazine "Krisis und Kritik", which, however, never appeared.