Emma Guntz

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Emma Guntz (born Linnebach; born August 30, 1937 in Bruchsal ) is a German - French poet , publicist and journalist who lives and works in Strasbourg .

Career

After graduating from high school in her hometown of Bruchsal, she studied English, Latin and history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Soon after completing her studies, she married the Strasbourg doctor Antoine Guntz, with whom she has three children, and has worked as a radio journalist since the 1970s, introducing the Alsatians to the German-speaking cultural tradition. From 1984 to 1996 she had a weekly poetry show on France 3 Alsace , in which she presented contemporary French, German and Alsatian poetry. In 1996 she published her first own volume of poetry In Klarschrift. Further volumes of poetry followed, most recently in 2009 late dedication.
Her most recent volume of prose , MAdamEva , with co-author Wendelinus Wurth and with drawings by Claudia Klein and Franz Handschuh, is a somewhat different "creation story of a special kind. Creation story is not the right expression for what Guntz is so imaginatively poetic and stylistically precisely put into words. "
Emma Guntz also works as a journalist; she writes feature articles, e.g. B. for the German-language edition of Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace , as well as glosses and short stories.

In 2000 she received the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg and in 2001 was the first woman to be tower clerk in Deidesheim in the Palatinate . The result of the stay was the Deidesheimer poems in another volume of poetry, Ein Jahr Leben (2002).

Emma Guntz has been co-organizer of the CENTRAL EUROPE literary biennial in Strasbourg-Schiltigheim since 1989 , which took place for the tenth and last time in March 2008. From 1986 to 2001 she was President of the Association for the Rehabilitation of Young People and the Long-Term Unemployed.

Publications

Own volumes of poetry
  • In plain text. Le Drapier Editeur, 1996
  • Bunnies die silently - couleur fraise, couleur framboise. Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2000, ISBN 3-933389-21-6
  • One year of life. Poems. Verlag Pfälzer Kunst Blinn, Landau 2002, ISBN 3-922580-92-0
  • Late dedication. Drey-Verlag, Gutach 2009, ISBN 978-3-933765-45-1

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Emma Guntz, conducted by Gabriele Weingartner in the Rheinpfalz on August 4, 2009, can also be found online here ; Review by Gabriele Weingartner in the Rheinpfalz of September 5, 2009, also available online here .
  2. ↑ Review by Gabriele Weingartner in Literaturblatt für Baden-Württemberg Heft 2, 2016, also available online here .
  3. ↑ More about the tower scribes from Deidesheim here
personal data
SURNAME Guntz, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linnebach, Emma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German poet, publicist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal