Poets

Kerstin Hensel was born in 1961 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now called Chemnitz again). There, she studied at the Medical School and worked for three years as a nurse in the surgery, before she took up studies in literature at the renowned Johannes R. Becher Institute in Leipzig as well as two years of apprenticeship at the Leipziger Theater. Kerstin Hensel gave a number of lectures at the “Ernst Busch”-Highschool for Actors in Berlin, at the Highschool for Films in Potsdam and at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, but in addition to that, she works as a writer since 1987. She lives in Berlin.