Jury
| Name | Profile |
| John E. Woods | Translator and winner of the Wolff Prize 1996 |
| Michael H. Heim | UCLA Comparative Literature |
| Joseph Parisi | Publisher/Editor of Poetry, Chicago |
| Helga Pfetsch | Translator and president of the Verband deutschsprachiger Übersetzer |
| Rainer Schulte | President, ALTA (American Literary Translators Organisation) |
