Vera Zingsem

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Vera Zingsem (born April 30, 1954 in Mönchengladbach ) is a freelance author and lecturer .

Vera Zingsem first studied education , theology and religious studies in Neuss, Bonn, Tübingen and Jerusalem. During her studies and afterwards she lived in Israel for a long time . That is why it takes a large part of its narrative material. She is a freelance lecturer (inter alia from 1993 to 2011 at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg ) as well as the author of numerous books and essays. a. deal with female mythology, symbolic language and spirituality or deal with the Palestine conflict in literary form. She has also written and published her own fairy tales. She lives in Tübingen and is a board member of the Baden-Württemberg Association of German Writers . She is a founding member and since 2010 on the board of PolyThea e. V. - Academy for female spirituality and post-patriarchal visions .

Her first successful youth novel is The Invitation to Jerusalem (Frankfurt 2001).

In October 2003 she received the Elle Hoffmann Prize from the Stuttgart GEDOK .

Vera Zingsem is the idea generator and co-founder of the first modern goddess temple in Germany, which was founded in 2015 in Tübingen.

Other works

  • Mythical trees. Cults and legends, traditional healing knowledge, traditional craft. Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3440150023 .
  • The Cologne goddess and her carnival. About the origins of the Rhenish Carnival. Pomaska-Brand Verlag, Schalksmühle 2015, ISBN 978-3943304237 .
  • Hikers in the sky . The world of planets in astronomy and mythology (together with Thomas Römer and Caryad), Julius Springer, autumn 2014, ISBN 978-3642553424 .
  • Freya, Iduna & Thor: the charm of the Germanic gods myths. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-940086-80-8 .
  • The wisdom of the creation myths. How ancient stories shape our thinking. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7831-3227-4 .
  • Heaven is mine, earth is mine. Goddesses of great cultures through the ages. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-931402-03-7 .
  • Lilith, Adam's first wife. 3. Edition. Reclam, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-379-01708-6 .
  • As clear as the water or find your own source. Herder, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-451-05182-6 .
  • with Barbara Stamer: Snake woman and chaos dragon in fairy tales, myth and art. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7831-1987-1 .
  • The invitation to Jerusalem. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-7632-5176-6 .
  • In the shade of the olive tree. Stories about Palestine / Israel. Internationales Kulturwerk eV, Hildesheim-Achtum 1994, ISBN 3-910069-29-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vera Zingsem: About Polythea. In: polythea-tempel.de. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Hamann: Literature in Baden-Württemberg: Elle Hoffmann Prize of GEDOK. In: literaturwelt.de. September 29, 2003, accessed December 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zingsem, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach