Rosemarie Zens is a poet, essayist and photographic artist living in Berlin.
Her work explores the interplay between language, body, and image. Starting out as an English and history teacher (1968-1974), with breaks to raise her daughter and son, she went on to study 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 greater depth during professional training in hermeneutic anthropology and existential psychoanalysis in Zurich. While working as a psychotherapist in her own practice, she documented her work in scientific articles, textbooks and newspapers.
Since 1998, Rosemarie Zens has been publishing poems and essays in individual volumes, anthologies, audiobooks, and literary magazines. Her photographs, which have always been part of her artistic work, have been presented internationally in galleries, museum collections, monographs, and magazines since 2005.
„The mystery of visibility, which appears in words, sounds, and voices, in excerpts and collages, in sound images and figures of speech like a kind of palimpsest of inner and outer worlds, is not solved, but rather doubled: as a game with time and a mirror of ourselves. In this way, we can once again become observers and viewers, writers and readers, voice actors and listeners with our own associations and narratives.“ Rosemarie Zens
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