Rosemarie Zens is a poet, essayist and photographic artist living in Berlin. The focus of her work lies in the interface of body, image, and language. After working as an English and history teacher (1969–1974) and giving birth to two children, she went on to study German literature at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where she earned her doctorate with a thesis on illness and medicine in literary texts: Krankheit und Medizin im literarischen Text. Zum Spätwerk von Wilhelm Raabe“ (Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1990). She explored this scientific, linguistic, and socio-critical topic in further depth during part-time training in hermeneutic anthropology and existential psychoanalysis in Zurich. As a psychotherapist in her own practice, she documented her work in scientific articles, specialist books, and newspapers.
Since 1998, Rosemarie Zens has been publishing poems and essays in individual volumes, anthologies, audiobooks, and literary magazines. Her photographic works are presented internationally in galleries, museum collections, monographs, and magazines.
„The mystery of visibility, which appears in words, sounds, and voices, in cuts, collages, and tone images, like a palimpsest of inner and outer worlds, is not solved, but doubled as a game with time and a mirror of ourselves. In this way, we can once again become observers and viewers, readers and writers, as well as listeners and storytellers with our own associations and narratives.“ Rosemarie Zens
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