Renate Freund (born 3 October 1939, in Neuwied) is a German author of short stories and poetry.
Life and work
Renate Freund was born in 1939 in
Neuwied
Neuwied () is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the east bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne. Th ...
as the second of five children. Being a qualified shorthand clerk, she started her career as a clerical assistant in the purchasing department of a medium-sized enterprise. After that she worked in the technical department of the hospital Marien-Klinikum in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
until she retired. Based on her interest in literature she later developed a talent for literary writing, especially short stories and poetry. Her first book of twelve short detective stories titled ''Der letzte Tanz'' (The Last Dance) was published in August 2016 by
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
. In January 2017 her poems were published in the anthology ''Abendfrieden'', 100 Gedichte (Evening Peace, 100 poems). In the same year the same publisher issued her poetry book ''Himmelreich''(Kingdom of Heaven) as part of the poetry series ''50 sonnets''. A third book of poetry, titled Sinnpuppe (Doll of Sense) was published in January 2018 as part of the series ''50 Gedichte'' (50 poems). In December 2018, another volume in the poetry series 50 sonnets was published under the title ''Glassymphonien'', and the volume 100 sonnets by the band ''Sonnenähren'' also appeared. In December 2019, three more volumes of poetry by Renate Freund were published in the MWV. The sonnet volume ''Lichthoffnung'' in the series 50 sonnets and the two volumes of poetry ''Winterruhe'' in the series 100 poems and ''Dorfidylle'' in the series 250 poems.
Renate Freund lives and works in Niederbieber, Rhineland-Palatinate.
[Biographical details of ''Renate Freund.'' In: ''Himmelreich (50 Sonette).'', ]Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, 2017, p. 65
Publications (selection)
Books
* ''Der letzte Tanz.'' Krimi-Kurzgeschichten.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2016, 150 p. .
* ''Himmelreich.'' 50 Sonette.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2017, 120 p. .
* ''Sinnpuppe.'' 50 Gedichte.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2018, 120 p. .
* ''Glassymphonien.'' 50 Sonette.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2018, 120 p. .
* ''Sonnenähren.'' 100 Sonette.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2018, 170 p. .
* ''Lichthoffnung.'' 50 Sonette.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2019, 120 p. .
* ''Winterruhe.'' 100 Gedichte.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2019, 170 p. .
* ''Dorfidylle.'' 250 Gedichte.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2019, 300 p. .
Anthologies
* ''Abendfrieden.'' 100 Gedichte. Anthologie.
Martin Werhand Verlag
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots ...
, Melsbach 2017, 150 p. .
Literature
Renate FreundIn: ''Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert Nachtragsband: F - M Volume 2'',
Verlag Walter de Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
, 2020,
Renate FreundIn:
Nicolai Riedel
Nicolai Riedel (born 17 October 1952 in Lübeck) is a German philologist, author and an editor. Riedel worked for a long time as a research fellow in the library of the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar. In addition, he is the author ...
''Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Lyrik 1945–2020'',
Metzler
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, Heidelberg, 2023, p. 619-620,
See also
External links
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Official website of Renate Freund
Portrait of Renate Freundin:
Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank
The Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank (People database of Rhineland-Palatinate, RPPD) is an internet database with short biographies of people who have lived or worked in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is being edited at four scientific libraries i ...
References
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1939 births
Living people
People from Neuwied
Writers from Rhineland-Palatinate
21st-century German women writers
21st-century German poets
German poets
German women poets
Modernist poets
Modernist women writers