Barbara Jungfer was born on February 9, 1968, in Berlin, and is a German jazz guitarist based in Munich. She began playing guitar at age eleven, influenced by the Beatles and blues musicians. She participated in jam sessions in Berlin jazz clubs, took lessons from Walter Norris, and performed with John Tchicai in 1991. She studied jazz guitar and music pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1992 to 1998, later continuing her education in workshops with Enrico Rava and in Banff, Canada. After returning to Berlin in 1998, she founded an organ-guitar trio and led her own bands. She also performed with Helmut Brandt, the NDR Pops Orchestra, the Berlin Big Band, and Klaus Doldinger's Passport, and toured internationally including Italy, India, and Australia. Her recordings included the albums Vitamin B3 (2001), Berlin Spirits (2005), Going Places (2008), and Folksongs & Originals (2023). In 2004, she won the Studiopreis of the Berliner Kultursenat alongside tubist Pauline Boeykens, as well as the Berlin Blues Award as a guitarist in Waldi Weiz's band. In 2006, she received a stipend from the Berlin Senate for a residency in New York City.
