My own writing

Literature

This section is devoted exclusively to my own literary work: novels as well as biographical and historical writing. I am particularly interested in transitions between present and past, documented history and fiction, memory and identity.

Novel · German

Galois Schweigen

A literary novel between the present and history, mathematics and memory. Évariste Galois becomes both a historical figure and an unsettling presence in a contemporary story.

German original →

Novel · German

Etrusker AG

A management seminar in Tuscany, competing groups, corporate rituals and an Etruscan connection that turns out to be much closer to the present than it first appears.

Introduction and complete German edition →

Biography · History

The Tragic Failure of a Genius: Évariste Galois

A biographical approach to the short and extraordinary life of the French mathematician and revolutionary Évariste Galois, between mathematics, politics, prison and a fatal duel.

About the biography →

Some earlier literary publications appeared under the pseudonym Bernard Bychan.

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Written by Bernd Klein; Last modified: August 27, 2026