Barbro Garenfeld is distinguished by the continuity of her contacts to a number of publishing houses.
She has had her own business since 1999 and has worked with the following publishers:
• since 2018 Cornelsen
• since 2016 TASCHEN
• 2015–2017 Herder
• 2013–2014 arbor
• 2008 DE AGOSTINI
• 2007–2010 h.f.ullmann
• 2005 BROCKHAUS
• 2004–2007 LANGENSCHEIDT
• 2003 FEIERABEND
• since 2002 OEKOTOPIA
• 2002–2012 COPPENRATH
• 2002 GABAL
• 2001 WAXMANN
• 1999–2001 KOENEMANN
• 1999 birkenbihl-media
During her degree course in philology, Barbro Garenfeld had a traineeship at DIOGENES (Switzerland). After graduation she began her career in the encyclopaedia department of HARENBERG (Dortmund). From 1992 on she has been responsible for the editing of books on art and architecture at TASCHEN (Cologne).
• 1992–1994 editor at TASCHEN (Cologne)
• 1987–1992 editorial assistant, then duty editor at HARENBERG (Dortmund)
• 1987 M. A. in American Studies, German Studies and Spanish
• 1985 Traineeship at DIOGENES (Zurich, Switzerland)
• 1981/82 Teaching assistant for German as a foreign language at the State University of New York at Oneonta, USA
• 1976/77 Teenage-Diplomat in Rochester, N. Y., USA