BIO

Born in 1989, in Frankfurt am Main, Lukas Bernius has lived in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Barcelona. In Buenos Aires he began studying film and in 2012 created the short film Río Sentimiento in collaboration with Cooperativa Producciones. His move to the German capital led to a degree in Philosophy and Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2016 he returned to Buenos Aires, where he worked with the MARTE theater collective at the Centro Cultural Matienzo. In the subsequent years in Berlin, he made a living in various bars and restaurants while developing his personal literary style. This period was also defined by an intensive exploration of Argentine tango, in the context of which he is currently evolving as a professional dancer. In 2022, Lukas Bernius decided to move to Barcelona, where he completed a master’s degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought at the Pompeu Fabra University.

His literary and artistic inspirations include Paul Auster, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Bolaño, Charles Bukowski, Marguerite Duras, Nan Goldin, Édouard Leve, Alejandra Pizarnik and Wong Kar-Wai. Lukas Bernius writes in German and sometimes in Spanish. Plastik is his first novel. For 2025, a volume of poetry Inmitten dieses Lebens is in the works, and a continuation of the motifs from Plastik is planned in a follow-up novel.