Emma Guntz
Emma Guntz ( born August 30, 1937 in Bruchsal as Emma Linnebach ) is a French-German poet, publicist and journalist who lives and works in Strasbourg.
Career
Emma Guntz studied after they had taken a high school in her home town of Bruchsal, at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, English, Latin and history. Quickly after graduating, she married the Strasbourg physician Antoine Guntz, with whom she has three children, and worked since the 1970s as a journalist in radio, where they brought nearer the Alsatians the German -speaking cultural tradition. From 1984 to 1996, she had a weekly poetry show at Radio France 3 Alsace, in which she introduced contemporary French, German and Alsatian seal. In 1996 she published her own first book of poetry in plain text. Other volumes of poetry followed, most recently in 2009 Late dedication.
Even as a journalist, she has worked; she writes feature posts, eg for the German language edition of Last News d'Alsace, as well as glosses and short stories. In 2000 she was awarded the Johann- Peter-Hebel - Award of Baden -Württemberg and in 2001 was the first woman writer in the Palatine tower Deidesheim. Result of the stay were the Deidesheimer poems in another volume of poetry, A year of life ( 2002). Since 1989, Emma Guntz co-organization of the "literary Biennale CENTRAL EUROPE " in Strasbourg- Schiltigheim, which took place in March 2008 for the tenth and final time. From 1986 to 2001 she was president of the Association for the rehabilitation of youth and long term unemployed.
Publications
- Literary and cultural- political essays, especially in the journal commons hg. by Hermann Bausinger, Adolf Muschg, Martin Walser, André Weckmann, Manfred Bosch
- Short stories and poems, among others in reading book Writing Women - edited by Anne Birk / Birgit Heiderich / Regine Kress Fricke, G. Braun Publisher Karlsruhe 1988
- Alsace, a literary travel companion, co-edited with André Weckmann, Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 2001, ISBN 3-458-34446-2
- The Move - A Christmas book, En chemin - Une Anthologie de Noël, texts collected by Emma Guntz, Drey -Verlag, 2011 ISBN Gutach 978-3933765-59-8
- In plain text, Le Drapier Editeur 1996
- Rabbits die silently - couleur fraise, framboise couleur, Gollenstein Blieskastel 2000 ISBN 3-933389-21-6
- A year of life - Deidesheimer poems, publishing Palatinate art, Landau 2002 ISBN 3-922580-92-0
- Late dedication, Drey -Verlag, 2009 ISBN 978-3-933765-45-1 Gutach