Background
Wolfgang Jeschke was born on November 19, 1936, in Děčín (then in Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic). After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II, he grew up in Asperg near Ludwigsburg.
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München, Germany
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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A U.S. task force travels back in time to obtain oil for present-day America and becomes stranded in an Eden suddenly polluted by the technology of modern warfare.
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1984
Wolfgang Jeschke was born on November 19, 1936, in Děčín (then in Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic). After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II, he grew up in Asperg near Ludwigsburg.
Jeschke studied German, English literature, and philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1960 to 1969.
Jeschke started his career as a toolmaker after graduation from high school. During that time he also worked in mechanical engineering. In 1959, he went back to complete the Abitur and in 1969, he was hired as an editorial assistant for Kindlers Literaturlexikon, and later became an editor.
Jeschke's own short-story collection, Der Zeiter (The Bridegroom) was first published under the imprint Lichtenberg Verlag in 1970.
In late 1972, Jeschke became science fiction consultant and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1979, Jeschke was appointed as the sole science fiction editor at Heyne, where he remained until his retirement in 2002. After that, he continued to live in Munich, where he continued to work on the Science Fiction Jahrbuch (Science Fiction Yearbook), with Sascha Mamczak.
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1984Jeschke was married to Rosemarie Hammer since January 5, 1962. The couple had no children.