Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken

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. In 2025, she received the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt.

Life Bohnenkamp-Renken was born in Hilden. Bohnenkamp-Renken's father was a physicist and mathematician who worked at a Max Planck Institute, and her mother was an infant nurse. 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. In 1992, she received her PhD from Göttingen with a dissertation about Goethe's Faust.

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.

Bohnenkamp-Renken was an honorary professor of Goethe University Frankfurt from 2004 to 2012,

Bohnenkamp-Renken is married and has two adult children. 2014 Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

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