Heine yearbook

Heine yearbook
description	German scientific yearbook
Area of ​​Expertise	Literary studies
language	German English French)
publishing company	JB Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
First edition	1962
founder	Eberhard Galley
Editor	Sabine Brenner-Wilczek
ISSN (print)	0073-1692

The Heine-Jahrbuch (HJb) is a literary -oriented periodical in which mainly articles on the life, work, environment and reception of the writer Heinrich Heine are published.

The HJb was first published in 1962 by the Heine archive of the State and City Library in Düsseldorf under the editorship of Eberhard Galley and published by Hoffmann and Campe in Hamburg . The yearbook initially only consisted of a series of essays and evidence of the Heine literature published the previous year. Over time there have been some changes to the original concept. With the 12th year of birth (1973) the editorship changed to the newly founded Heinrich-Heine-Institut , whose first director was Galley. Book reviews were published for the first time in year 13 (1974), and at the same time the messages of the Heinrich Heine Society , which had previously been distributed independently, were integrated into the yearbook. Since the year 16 (1977) the HJb was published by Joseph A. Kruse , who succeeded Galley as director of the Heine Institute. Sabine Brenner-Wilczek has been the director of the Heinrich Heine Institute since June 2009 and the new editor since the 2010 yearbook was published.

In the course of the first few years the scope of the yearbook increased and the structure of the content was differentiated several times. The essays are usually followed by “smaller contributions”, often supplemented by “reports” or speeches (for example by the Heine Prize winners). If necessary, the Heine Institute provides information about new collections or activities; the record of Heine literature from the previous year was expanded to include a “Heine Chronicle”, which was later replaced by a compilation of press releases under the title “Heine Today”. Overall, there is a stronger involvement of Heine's reception beyond the boundaries of specialist science. The collaboration of Heine researchers and Heine friends around the world, which Galley wanted from the beginning (HJb 1962, p. 4), resulted in a list of authors that soon extended beyond the German-speaking area, although the proportion of contributions published in English or French tended to be higher overall remained marginal.

For the first 25 years (1962–1986) there has been a register volume edited by Heinfried Heitmann ( ISBN 3-455-09024-9 ) since 1987 , which lists the contributions to the HJb by, among other things, authors, reviewed authors, places, people and titles of Heine's works.

The Heine yearbook has been published by JB Metzler since the year 34 (1995) .