Went to school for far too long, back when the Thuringian Forest was still green. Studies with ambition and master's degrees: diploma, doctorate, habilitation. Research and teaching at the universities of Münster, Frankfurt, Würzburg; lectureships at the University of Applied Sciences, Munich. Three-month travel grants from the German Research Foundation to the USA. Board member, then president, of the International Society of Comparative Psychology. In addition to publications on the development of concept formation ("We play post"), memory, and action planning ("We build a city"), increasingly literary works: Poetry, short prose, novels. Brothers Grimm Prize for Literature for the novel The Hour of the Specialists, translated into several languages. Works on a novel about women artists of the thirties and forties. Married. Lives in Berlin and on the Mediterranean.

Barbara Zoeke represented Chair II from 1983-1991. Other representatives of the Chair were: Josef Schenk 1982-1983, Jürgen Otto 1991-1993 and finally Wolfgang Kallus 1993-1995.