Prof. Bernd Feininger is a German Roman Catholic theologian and literary scholar, who until 2013 taught as a professor at the University of Education in Freiburg-

He studied Catholic theology, Judaism, German and religious history in Freiburg and Paris. Since 1990 he has been a professor at the Institute for Protestant and Catholic Theology and Religious Education at the University of Education in Freiburg. His areas of expertise are the Old Testament and religious studies, especially Islam and Judaism. He worked among other things in teacher training for the state of Baden-Württemberg.