Emma Guntz
French writer
Emma Guntz (née Emma Linnebach) (born 30 August 1937 in Bruchsal) is a German-French poet, journalist and editor living and working in Strasbourg, France.
Life
After passing her Abitur exam in her home town of Bruchsal, Emma Guntz studied English, Latin and history at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.
Soon after graduation she married Antoine Guntz, a Strasbourg physician; they have three children. In the 1970s she worked as a radio journalist, communicating German culture and tradition to Alsatians. From 1984 to 1996 she hosted a weekly broadcast on poetry at Radio France 3 Alsace, in which she presented contemporary poetry in French, German and the Alsatian dialect.
The first collection of her own poetry, In Klarschrift (In Plain Writing), was published in 1996, followed by others, the last one (in 2009) being Späte Widmung (Late Dedication).
Her recent work "MAdamEva" (2015) is in prose and presents a special version of Genesis, mainly from Eve’s point of view. Literary critic Gabriele Weingartner attests that Guntz has found "poetic words full of imagination and precise in style." ."
As a writing journalist she contributed feuilleton articles, e.g. for the German-language edition of
Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, as well as apostils and short stories.
In 2000 she was awarded the Johann Peter Hebel Award, of Baden-Württemberg, and in 2001 she was the first woman to be honored by Deidesheim in Rhineland-Palatinate as Turmschreiberin (tower scribe), which meant sporadic sojourns in the medieval castle tower and resulted in the publication of another collection of poems Ein Jahr Leben (One year of Life), partly dedicated to Deidesheim.
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