Bruno Johannsson has a degree of economics from the university of Saarland.. He was involved in research and teaching. Poetry accompanied his work from the age of seventeen. In 1976 he published the first edition of poetry in German. He performed readings in Hamburg, Bergedorf, Loccum, Vienna, Darmstadt, Leipzig, Dortmund and Bad Wörishofen. In 2022 he had an online reading with an international audience. Some of his poems can be found in the annual anthology of the Library of German Poetry in the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2021. He received a very positive review from Prof. Lichtenberger of the Department for German Studies of the University of the Saarland.