Jackson, Hendrik

Hendrik Jackson grew up in Münster. He studied film studies, Slavic studies and philosophy in Berlin, where he lived for many years as a freelance author and translator. From 2019 to 2021, he taught contemporary German literature and translation at MGU Moscow, and since 2022 at the University of Szczecin. In addition to his work as a poet, essayist and translator, primarily from Russian, he is the editor of the internet portal www.lyrikkritik.de. He also organised the literary series Parlandopark with other poets, in which authors such as Marte Huke, Monika Rinck, Christian Filips, Steffen Popp and others performed, and founded and directed the “Akademie für Lyrikkritik” in cooperation with the Haus für Poesie. In 2022 he was co-founder of PEN Berlin.