F. W. Bernstein (born Fritz Weigle; 4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018) was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic.

He began work as a teacher in 1966 in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule [de], followed by a post in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe from 1968.

He taught at the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium [de] in Bad Vilbel from 1970 to 1972,[4] and moved then to the School of education (Pädagogische Hochschule) in Göttingen.

[5] He was appointed professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1984, the only such chair,[6] and held the post until he retired in 1999.

He founded together with Gernhardt and F. K. Waechter its appendix Welt im Spiegel [de] (World in the mirror), published until 1976.