Barbara Beuys

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Barbara Beuys (born October 9, 1943 in Wernigerode ) is a German historian and writer .

life and work

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, Barbara Beuys studied history, philosophy and sociology in Cologne from 1963 to 1968 and received her doctorate in history. phil. She started her journalistic career at the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . In 1971 Barbara Beuys moved to Hamburg. There she worked for twelve years as an editor at Stern and then became an editor at Merian and Die Zeit . In 1979 her first book was published, a biography about the Great Elector . The second book Family Life in Germany followed a year later . It is the family story for the past 2000 years.

After a few more books, including about the resistance in the Third Reich and the history of the Jews in Europe, various biographies have been published since 1999: about Hildegard von Bingen or the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff as well as a book about the Chinese poet Li Qingzhao . In 2010 she published "the most comprehensive biography to date" by Sophie Scholl .

Barbara Beuys has been living in Cologne again since 2001 as a freelance writer of non-fiction books. In addition to history, her areas of interest include music, painting, literature and religion. She is the great niece of the sculptor Joseph Beuys .

Awards

Works

  • 1979: The great elector. The man who created Prussia
  • 1980: Family life in Germany. New pictures from the German past
  • 1981: Anna Louisa Karsch: Heart Thoughts. The life of the "German Sappho" told by herself; edited and introduced by Barbara Beuys
  • 1982: And if the world were full of devils. Luther's Faith and His Heirs
  • 1984: In the beginning there was only despair. How parents of disabled children learn to live anew
  • 1987: don't forget us. People in the Resistance 1933–1945
  • 1992: Florence: urban world-cosmopolitan city. Urban life from 1200 to 1500
  • 1993: Hamburg . Text Barbara Beuys / Alice Ohrenschall
  • 1995: Cologne . Text Barbara Beuys / Ludwig Renard
  • 1996: Home and Hell. Jewish life in Europe for two millennia
  • 1999: I don't like to embarrass myself. The life of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35158-0 .
  • 2000: Defense of the Republic: The Social Democratic Reformer Theodor Haubach (1896-1945)
  • 2001: Because I'm sick of love. The life of Hildegard von Bingen . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35167-2 .
  • 2004: The price of passion. China's great time: the dramatic life of Li Qingzhao . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35118-4 .
  • 2007: Paula Modersohn-Becker or: When art is life . Hanser , ISBN 978-3446208353 . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35119-1 .
  • 2010: Sophie Scholl. Biography . Hanser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23505-2
  • 2012: “Living with the Enemy”. Amsterdam under German occupation 1940–1945 . Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23996-8 . dtv-Taschenbuch 2016, ISBN 978-3423348904 .
  • 2014: The New Women - Revolution in the Empire 1900–1914 . Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24491-7 .
  • 2016: Helene Schjerfbeck . The painter from Finland . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-17689-3 .
  • 2016: Maria Sibylla Merian . Artist, researcher, businesswoman . Insel Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-31680-0 .
  • 2017: Hildegard von Bingen : Combative and merciful . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-36312-5 .
  • 2018: Sophie Charlotte . Prussia's first queen . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-458-17747-0 .
  • 2020: Asta Nielsen . Film genius and new woman . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-458-17841-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/6144/_jetzt_werde_ich_etwas_tun.html
  2. ↑ Barbara Beuys in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on April 16, 2011 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ Jury recognizes biographies: Luise Büchner Prize for Barbara Beuys , wiesbadener-tagblatt.de
personal data
SURNAME Beuys, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, editor, historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode