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Irene Franken, Chair of the Cologne Women's History Association, 2020 by Nicola

Irene Franken (born 1952 Düsseldorf ) is a German historian and publicist . She is a co-founder of the Cologne Women's History Association .

In 1997, she received the Rheinlandtaler from the Rhineland Regional Association in recognition of "outstanding services to the preservation of cultural landscapes . "  In 2004, she received the Inge von Bönninghausen Prize .[1]  In 2015, she and the Cologne Women's History Association were awarded her the Anneke Prize . [2] She was awarded Alternative Honorary Citizenship of Cologne in 2017.

Life

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She studied German and history at the University of Cologne . From 1979 to 1981, she worked as a Realschule teacher. From 1978, she organized readings, exhibitions, and public relations work at the women's bookshop Rhiannon . In 1984, she founded the women's history project, Dr. Faust meets Agrippina with Gwen Edith Kiesewalter. [3]

In 1986, she co-founded the Cologne Women's History Association, and has been its managing director since 1989.[4][5] Since then, she has designed museum tours and city excursions specifically for women,[6] as well as numerous exhibitions, including in cooperation with the Anne Frank House Amsterdam , the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne , the Social Service of Catholic Women , and the Rhineland Regional Association .

In 1986, she was involved in the founding of the association of German, Swiss, and Austrian city guides, Miss Marple's Sisters . Irene Franken has been involved in various research projects on the history of women in Cologne, including those of the Cologne Archives and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . From 1992, she was involved in the establishment and organization of the Feminist Archive and Documentation Center in the Women's Media Tower in Cologne . From 1999 to 2005, she worked for the Rhineland Regional Association, initially in the Equal Opportunities Office, and from 2002 as Deputy General Manager for Press and Marketing.

In 2015, she was appointed as a regional juror for the Federal President 's History Competition for Young People.[2]

In Cologne, she campaigned in 1986 for the Seidenmachergäßchen and Unter Riemenschneidern to be renamed Seidenmacherinnengäßchen and Unter Seidmacherinnen , respectively, after she was able to prove through historical research that only women worked in this profession.[7]  In 1987, she intervened, with Petra May, so that 18 women from Cologne's city history were included, instead of the originally planned 5 statues, in the statue program at the Cologne City Hall Tower . [8]

Works

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  • Franken, Irene; Hoerner, Ina (1987). Hexen (in German). Köln: Kölner Volksblatt-Verl. ISBN 3-923243-32-4.
  • Franken, Irene; Kling-Mathey, Christiane (1992). Köln der Frauen (in German). Köln: Volksblatt-Verl. ISBN 3-923243-94-4.
  • Franken, Irene (1995). Köln (in German). Köln: Kiepenheuer und Witsch. ISBN 3-462-02415-9.
  • Franken, Irene; Jazaeri, Shirin; Staudenmeyer, Renate (2001). Was erreicht? (in German). Köln: Schmidt von Schwind. ISBN 3-932050-19-3.

References

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  1. ^ Maser, Brigitte (2004-09-03). "Kölnerin demontiert männerorientierte Historie". taz.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  2. ^ a b e.V., i.d.a. Dachverband. "Der Anneke-Preis 2015 ging an den Kölner Frauengeschichtsverein". www.ida-dachverband.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  3. ^ "Emons". Emons (in German). 2004-02-27. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  4. ^ "Irene Franken: So schrieben und schreiben Frauen in Köln Geschichte". Rundschau Online (in German). 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  5. ^ "Wie eine Kölner Heilige die Welt eroberte". domradio.de (in German). 2018-10-21. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  6. ^ "Weibliche Spuren sichtbar machen: Kölner Frauengeschichtsverein bietet volles Programm". Rheinische Anzeigenblätter (in German). 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  7. ^ WDR (2023-06-15). "Kölner Stadtrat entscheidet: Straßen sollen künftig nach Frauen benannt werden". www1.wdr.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  8. ^ Kier, Hiltrud; Ernsting, Bernd; Krings, Ulrich; Bachmann, Vera; Heiermann, Dorothea; Körber-Leupold, Celia, eds. (1996). Köln, der Ratsturm: seine Geschichte und sein Figurenprogramm. Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln (1. Aufl ed.). Köln: J.P. Bachem. p. 268. ISBN 978-3-7616-1156-2.
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