Jakob Hessing:

Curriculum vitae

1944: Born on March 5th in Lyssowce, Upper Silesia

1951: Primary School in West Berlin

1952: Primary School in Pörtschach, Austria

1957: West Berlin high school Erich-Hoepner-Schule

1964: Graduation from high school (Abitur)

1964: Emigration to Israel; living, and working, on kibbuz Givat Hayim

1968: Beginning of studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1969: Marriage with Batschewa Davidi; five children (1970-79)

1970-78: German editor of the Jerusalem quarterly Ariel, published by Israel's

            Foreign Ministry

1974: B.A. in English Literature and History

1980: German translation of Hebrew novel by A.B. Jehoschua, Der Liebhaber, for

            Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (numerous reprints and paperback              editions)

1981: M.A. in Comparative Literature

1982: German translation of A.B. Jehoschua's collection of stories, Angesichts der        Wälder, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (numerous reprints and paperback       editions)

1985: Else Lasker-Schüler, deutsch-jüdische Dichte­rin, Von Loeper                                     Verlag, Karlsruhe (biography) (several paperback editions: Heyne Verlag,                         Munich 1987 ff.)

1989: Der Fluch des Propheten. Drei Abhandlungen zu Sigmund Freud,  Daedalus

            Verlag, Rheda-Wiedenbrück (Italian translation: Editrice La Guintina,

            Florence 1991; paperback: Suhrkamp1993)

1990: Der Zensor ist tot, Quadriga Verlag, Weinheim (novel)

1991: Beginning of work as literary critic for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and       Merkur

1992: Ph.D. in German Literature from RWTH Aachen; Senior Lecturer at German       Department of Hebrew University, Jerusalem 

1993: Die Heimkehr einer jüdischen Emigrantin. Else Lasker-Schülers mythisierende                     Rezeption 1945-1971, Max  Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen. (revised version of      dissertation)

1993-99: Editor of Jüdischer Almanach, an annual publication of Jüdischer Verlag,

          Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main

1994: German translation of Hebrew novel by Jehoschua Kenas, Auf dem Weg zu den             Katzen, for Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

1995: Associate Professor of German Literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1996-99: Head of German Department

1997 -: Co-editor of book series Conditio Judaica published by Niemeyer Verlag

1997: German translation of Auf  dem Weg zu den Katzen is awarded the translator's   prize of  The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature

2004 - : Head of German Department

2005: Mir soll's geschehen, Berlin Verlag, Berlin (novel)

2005: Der Traum und der Tod. Heinrich Heines Poetik des Scheiterns, Wallstein                  Verlag, Göttingen