Rüdiger Bernhardt (born 8 September 1940) is a German Germanist and Scandinavist.
Born in Dresden, Bernhardt was a Germanist at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg until 1993.
Among other things he dealt with works by Peter Hille, among them with the Seegesicht [de].
[1] As unofficial collaborator (IME) under the code name "Faust", he provided the Stasi with expert opinions on manuscripts by authors for many years; he thus influenced printing permission procedure [de] of the censorship in East Germany.
[5] Bernhardt is a member of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin