Hildegard Baumgart has been a marriage and relationships counselor at the Ecumenical Counseling Center in Munich-Neuperlach, West Germany, since 1973. She also has a doctorate in Romance languages and literatures. In addition to Jealousy, published in German in 1985, she is the author of several articles on marriage and relationships and the editor of a collection of letters from East Germany, Briefe aus einem anderen Land (1971).