 He worked for several decades at the German Studies Institute of Stockholm University, where he, together with the Institute's present-day director Prof. Dr. Helmut Müssener, opened the "Stockholmer Koordinationsstelle zur Erforschung der deutschsprachigen Exil-Literatur" (Stockholm Coordinating Center for Research into Germanophone Exile Literature) in 1969.In 2001, the "Hamburger Arbeitsstelle für deutsche Exilliteratur" ("HafdE") was renamed the "Walter-A.-Berendsohn-Forschungsstelle für deutsche Exilliteratur" ("BFfdE") in his honor.Berendsohn is also well known for writing the biography and championing the work of the writer Nelly Sachs.