Grimm Prize for Humboldtian Jadwiga Kita-Huber

The Humboldtian, Jadwiga Kita-Huber, is this year’s recipient of the DAAD’s Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize. The award comes with prize money of 10,000 euros and a one-month research visit to Germany.

Literature: a cultural bridge between Germany and Poland

Jadwiga Kita-Huber is a professor of modern German literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków where she has also been Deputy Dean of Research and Development in the Faculty of Philology since 2020. Her research focuses, amongst other things, on literary translation, poetics and aesthetics. Her doctorate, which she completed in 2003, addressed Polish translations of the lyrical works of Paul Celan. In 2016, she completed her habilitation on works of Jean Paul at her home university in Kraków. She has been a visiting researcher at many foreign universities and institutions, also sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation: from 2011 to 2013, she was a Humboldt Research Fellow at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and is currently doing research at the University of Giessen on the strength of the Humboldt Foundation’s Alumni sponsorship.

The Grimm Prizes

The 2026 Grimm Prize recognises Jadwiga Kita-Huber’s work in sustainably reinforcing cultural ties between Germany and Poland to which she has contributed significantly with a raft of literary translations from German into Polish. As the DAAD press release notes, she is, moreover, a driving force in global German studies. 

Since 1995, the DAAD has been granting the award to foreign scholars for outstanding services to international cooperation in German studies as well as German as a foreign language. The prizes are funded by the Federal Foreign Office.