Bernhard Stengele (born 23 April 1963) is a German director, actor, and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens, who has been serving as Second Deputy Minister-President and Minister for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation in the Thuringia state government since February 2023.

[3] Stengele completed his acting training at the Ecole Monika Pagneux et Philipp Gaullier in Paris.

After guest engagements at the Teatro itinerante del sol (Düsseldorf/Bogotá), at the Dance Theater Skoronel (Berlin), the Theaterwerkstatt Hannover and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), he became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Konstanz in 1992.

Stengele has worked on co-productions with theatres in Burkina Faso, Greece, Turkey, and Israel.

On 25 January 2020, he was elected co-leader of the Thuringian branch of the party, alongside Ann-Sophie Bohm-Eisenbrandt.