Werner Bernreuther (6 December 1941 – 17 September 2024[1]) was a German actor, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, translator and painter.

Bernreuther trained as an electrician, studied 1965–1969 at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Leipzig and was then committed to the stages Freiberg and Gera.

[3] Bernreuther sings partly in his native Itzgründisch dialect and mixed "folk song-like structure with intellectual thinking.

"[4] In the 1980s, he made radio and television productions, inter alia in Rund, Liedercircus '86, Pfundgrube und Liederkarussell.

His pupils include Hubertus Schmidt, Stephan Krawczyk, the group Liedehrlich, Dieter Kalka, Joachim Schäfer, Maike Nowak, Andrea Thelemann and Norbert Bischof.