Barbara Frenz

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Barbara Ina Frenz (born September 19, 1961 in Zurich ) is a German historian and author .

Life

Barbara Frenz studied history, philosophy and art history at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 1982 to 1989 . In 1996, she was in Frankfurt with a thesis on equality thinking in medieval German cities doctorate . From 1989 to 1999 she was a research assistant at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main and Würzburg . In 2000 she completed a copywriting course and has been working as a copywriter in the communications industry since 2001.

She is the author of poetry and historical and cultural studies. In 2015 she published a biography about the American jazz musician and poet Henry Grimes under the title Music to Silence to Music , the foreword to which was written by Sonny Rollins . In 2016 the book was nominated for the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research .

Barbara Frenz lives in Frankfurt am Main. She is a great-granddaughter of the painter Alexander Frenz .

Historical and cultural studies focus: European Middle Ages , urban life, political and social ideas, conflict resolution, standardization, use of language, social emancipation , jazz (from the 1950s)

Works (selection)

  • Equality thinking in German cities from the 12th to 15th centuries. Intellectual history, source language, social function (= urban research , series A: representations, vol. 52). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-11099-X (Also: Frankfurt (Main), University, dissertation, 1996).
  • Peace, breach of law and sanctions in German cities before 1300. With a tabular overview of sources according to offenses and crime groups. With a foreword by Gerhard Dilcher (= conflict, crime and sanction in the society of old Europe. Symposia and Syntheses, Vol. 8). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-412-04203-X .
  • When she stood in front of him in her green corduroy jacket. Poems. With drawings by Thomas Rösch. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85165-946-7 .
  • Music to Silence to Music. A Biography of Henry Grimes (translated from German by J. Bradford Robinson). Foreword by Sonny Rollins. Northway Books, London 2015, ISBN 9780992822255 .
  • Fire delusion zen. 41 poems. With drawings by Thomas Rösch. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7092-0253-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Frenz, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frenz, Barbara Ina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich