Rosemarie Zens is a writer and photographer living in Berlin.
Studies in Biology, History and English led her to various teaching positions. Trained as a Montessori teacher. Doctorate in Modern German Literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on criticism of speech, social issues and the sciences. Studies of hermeneutic anthropology and psychoanalysis in Zurich. Psychotherapist in her own practice. Articles in academic textbooks and newspapers. Publications of poetry and essays in individual volumes, anthologies, audio books and literary journals. Presentation of her photographic works in galleries and museum collections, in monographs and magazines.
Literary writing and photography have always been a part of Rosemarie Zens‘ life. She defines her poetic work as a political act. Her focus lies on the ‘conditio humana’, the human existence that manifests in dreams, images and language engaging in and reacting to our contemporary times. Associations with myths open up to inward contemplation and contribute to social discourses as well as collective memories. The innate dynamic of our imagination draws on the paradoxical nature of imagery and points to the contradictory truths about the way in which nature and history are intertwined. To participate in an infinity that determines life through measure and deviation, rhythm and variation is the aim and the formal framework within which Rosemarie Zens’ poems, prose and photographs evolve. ‘In search of a deeper beauty’, she writes, ‘that comes from an assumed congenial order of the individual parts and infuses our relationship to a complex world with a certain sense for compelling compositions.’ (Hidden Patterns, 2011)
Biobibliography and Artist Statement
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