Gundula Schiffer

Gundula Schiffer (born 1980 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a poet and literary translator. She studied comparative literature, art history and philosophy, as well as Hebrew language and literature, in Munich and Jerusalem, and received her doctorate in 2010 for a study of the poetry of the Psalms in Moses Mendelssohn’s translation. Schiffer translated from Hebrew, French and English and wrote poetry in German and Hebrew. After briefly working as a secondary-school teacher, she completed a course of study in literary translation. In 2014, she received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW for her work on Lea Goldberg’s novel Verluste – Antonia gewidmet. Her publications include the poetry collection Jerusalem-Köln. Süden über meinem Buch (2017) and a biography of the poet Tirza Atar (2019). In 2021, she received a Dieter-Wellershoff scholarship; a long poem of hers was shortlisted for the Munich Poetry Prize.