Jakob Hessing

Jakob Hessing (also: Jaakov Hessing ; born March 5, 1944 in Lyssowce , Upper Silesia ) is an Israeli Germanist and writer .

Life

Jakob Hessing is the son of Eastern Jewish parents and was born in hiding in the subcamp of a German concentration camp . After the liberation by the Red Army , his family went to Berlin , where he grew up. He attended elementary school and high school , where he graduated from high school in 1964 . In the same year Hessing emigrated to Israel . There he worked in a kibbutz for two years . From 1968 studied it history , English literature and German literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . He completed these studies in 1974 with the degree of Bachelor in English Studies from. From 1970 to 1978 he published the German-language edition of the magazine "Ariel" on behalf of the Israeli Foreign Ministry . From 1991 he wrote reviews for the " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ". In 1992 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Aachen with a thesis on the reception of Else Lasker-Schülers in post-war Germany as a doctor of philosophy . In the same year he received a teaching position in Jerusalem, since 1995 he has been " Associate Professor " at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , and from 2004 he headed the German Department of the same university .

Jakob Hessing written next literary dissertations novels and essays in German language ; from 1993 to 1999 he edited the "Jewish Almanac". He also translates from Hebrew into German .

In the 2010 summer semester, Hessing took over the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel , which is awarded to a scientist who was exiled by the National Socialists.

Else Lasker-Schüler . Karlsruhe 1985
The Prophet's Curse . Rheda-Wiedenbrück 1989
The censor is dead . Weinheim [u. a.] 1990
The homecoming of a Jewish emigrant . Tubingen 1993
It should happen to me . Berlin 2005
The dream and death. Göttingen 2005.
Lost parables. Heine , Kafka , Celan . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Oakville, Connecticut 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-35086-7 .
Sebald's look . (with Verena Lenzen ), Wallstein, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1751-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hessing, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hessing, Jaakov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli German studies and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lyssowce , Upper Silesia