Rosemarie Zens is a poet, essayist and photographic artist living in Berlin. After studying History and English, she became a teacher in Düsseldorf and Munich. Following the birth of her two children, she began studying Modern German Literary Studies in Munich. Completing her doctorate with a thesis on linguistic, social, and scientific criticism led her to pursue further training in hermeneutic anthropology and psychoanalysis in Zurich while working as a psychotherapist in her own practice. It has always been important to her to document her work in writing, with academic contributions in specialist books and newspapers and with publications of literary works in individual volumes, anthologies, audiobooks, and literary magazines. Her photographic works are presented in galleries and museum collections, as well as in monographs and magazines.
“Between biography and history, records and stories as well as and visual images provide insight into stages of life, formative events, and personal and political developments. If bearing witness and reflection are tasks of perception and thought, then linguistic and visual images have the ability to make things visible, to give them presence, which leads to the understanding that we cannot help but live and think in images.
I always enjoy being surprised and moved when images and words prove to be coherent in themselves, when they stimulate my senses and provide insight until they transform back into a mystery, which is what has always constituted art and life beyond the spirit of the times.”
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