Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken (born 17 November 1960) is a German academic who has served as the director of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift since 2003. She received the 2022 Hessian Cultural Prize for both her direction of the Hochstift and her personal academic work. [1]
Bohnenkamp-Renken was born in Hilden. [2] Bohnenkamp-Renken's father was a physicist and mathematician who worked at a Max Planck Institute, and her mother was an infant nurse. [3] Her grandfather was Hans Bohnenkamp , a professor who influenced Helmut Schmidt.
Bohnenkamp-Renken studied German literature, philosophy, and journalism at the universities of Göttingen and Florence between 1980 and 1987. [4] [5] In 1992, she received her PhD from Göttingen with a dissertation about Goethe's Faust. [3] Bohnenkamp-Renken habilitated in 2000, and she became the director of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift in June 2003. [4] [6]
As director, Bohnenkamp-Renken has led the Hochstift's work on a historical critical edition of Clemens Brentano. She directed the historical-critical edition of Goethe's Faust which the Hochstift created between 2009 and 2015 in conjunction with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. [7]
Bohnenkamp-Renken was an honorary professor of Goethe University Frankfurt from 2004 to 2012, [3] when she became a full professor, teaching modern German literature. [8]
Bohnenkamp-Renken is married and has two adult children. [3]
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