Emma Guntz

After passing her Abitur exam in her home town of Bruchsal, Emma Guntz studied English, Latin and history at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.

Literary critic Gabriele Weingartner attests that Guntz has found "poetic words full of imagination and precise in style."

"[2] 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.

Apart from her literary and journalistic work Emma Guntz was instrumental in co-organizing the ten conferences of the literarische Biennale Mitteleuropa (a biannual meeting of central European literature) at Strasbourg-Schiltigheim (1989–2008).