Winfried Pilz

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Monsignor Pilz in Studánka near Varnsdorf (2017)

Winfried Pilz (born July 4, 1940 in Warnsdorf , Sudetenland ; † February 23, 2019 in Görlitz ) was a German Roman Catholic priest . He was president of the children's organization Die Sternsinger . He became known as a songwriter.

Life

After being expelled from Czechoslovakia , Winfried Pilz came to the Rhineland with his family in 1952 and grew up in Wermelskirchen . He studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Bonn and Munich . In 1966 he received the Cologne Cathedral , the ordination . After a time as a chaplain in the Herz Jesu in Euskirchen and in St. Joseph in Bonn , he became a city youth pastor in Bonn. As a diocesan youth pastor for the male youth in the Archdiocese of Cologne from 1972 onwards, he was also rector of the Haus Altenberg youth education center for almost eighteen years . In Altenberg in the Bergisches Land near Cologne there was a Cistercian abbey from the 12th century to 1803 ; In the 1970s and 1980s, Pilz took up the monastic tradition of Ora et labora (pray and work) for youth work and invited to Haus Altenbrg for Ora-et-labora weeks . In 1980 he also revived the tradition of Altenberg light . At the youth center in Düsseldorf he worked as a consultant for religious education. From 1990 he was pastor of the parish Sankt Martinus in Kaarst .

From 2000 to 2010, Monsignor Winfried Pilz was President of the children's mission organization Die Sternsinger in Aachen and thus headed the carol singing campaign in Germany. In 2007 Pilz was elected President of the German Catholic Mission Council. From July 2010 to 2012 he was a pastor abroad in Prague and headed the German-speaking community. In 2012 he retired and since then he has lived in Leutersdorf in Upper Lusatia , just a few kilometers from his birthplace, which is now in the Czech Republic .

Winfried Pilz wrote and composed numerous New Spiritual Songs , his best known being the German version of Laudato si . For many years he wrote spiritual impulses for the church year for the Catholic News Agency (KNA) and explained church festivals such as the Exaltation of the Cross, Epiphany, Corpus Christi and Christ the King.

Works

  • From the Deep (1981)
  • Throwing Fire to Earth (1974)
  • I believe in a God who sings (1987; music: Noël Colombier )
  • Laudato si (1974; music: from Italy)
  • Mirjam from Israel (Music: Markus Pytlik )
  • Do you hear? (1990; music: Markus Pytlik)
  • We are the children of this world (2005)
  • Morning land. Christmas radio speeches (2010)

Web links

Commons : Winfried Pilz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He wrote “Laudato si”: Prelate Winfried Pilz died. In: kathisch.de . February 25, 2019, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Winfried Pilz, Peter Jansen: Ora et labora. Young Christians discover a program. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 978-3-466-36167-0 .
  3. ↑ Markus Bauer: Return home. (No longer available online.) In: pragerzeitung.cz . June 23, 2010, archived from the original on February 25, 2019 ; accessed on February 26, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pragerzeitung.cz
  4. ↑ a b Alexander Brüggemann, Paula Konersmann: On the death of the priest and songwriter Winfried Pilz: A strong voice - for children and in music. In: Domradio Köln. February 25, 2019, accessed February 26, 2019 .
  5. ^ Felix Neumann: Laudato si! - The Pope, St. Francis and the famous New Spiritual Song. In: kathisch.de . June 8, 2015, accessed on February 26, 2019 (interview with Winfried Pilz).
personal data
SURNAME Mushroom, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic priest, president of the children's ministry "Die Sternsinger" and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Warnsdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2019
Place of death Goerlitz