Burkhard Bilger has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000. He was a senior editor at Discover from 1999 to 2005, and a deputy editor and writer at The Sciences from 1994 to 1999, where his work helped earn two National Magazine Awards and six nominations. His book, Noodling for Flatheads (Scribner, 2000), was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. Bilger is a Branford Fellow at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1986. At MacDowell he worked on a book about his grandfather’s experiences during World War II, Fatherland, published by Random House. He also outlined and began writing a piece for The New Yorker on the human voice and the choral ensemble "Roomful of Teeth."
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Burkhard Bilger
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets (Memoir)
Studios
Garland
Burkhard Bilger worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…