Adalbert Krims

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Adalbert Krims (born April 17, 1948 in Freistadt , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian journalist .

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Adalbert Krims is the son of a grammar school teacher and, after elementary school , attended the lower school of Freistadt grammar school and then the Linz commercial academy , where he passed the Matura in 1966 . He broke off studying social science at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and then worked for two years as an organizational secretary in the Episcopal Pastoral Office of the Catholic Diocese of Linz (Diocesan Secretary of the Catholic Students' Youth - KSJ). At the same time, he studied religious education for two semesters at the diocesan religious education academy. In the 1969/70 school year he taught as a Roman Catholic religion teacher at a secondary school in Linz . From 1968 to 1970 he was an honorary "Diocesan Youth Leader" (Chairman of the Catholic Youth) in his diocese . He was also a member of the highest governing body for the preparation of the Linz diocesan synod until he was removed from all church functions in March 1970 by the then Linz diocesan bishop Franz Zauner .

When he moved to Vienna in September 1970, he became editor of the magazine “Neues FORVM” . From 1971 to 1976 he was General Secretary of the Austrian Section of the International Pauline Society , and from 1971 to 1990 he was active in the development policy information work of several NGOs , 16 years of which at the Vienna Institute for Development Issues . He also worked as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and magazines in Austria and Germany. For several years he was Vienna correspondent for the Third World news agency “Inter Press Service” (IPS). From 1991 to 1995 he was also a consultant for the State Secretariat for Development Cooperation in the Federal Chancellery .

Since October 1991 he has been editor of the German-language service of "Radio Austria International" at Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). From 2003 to the end of October 2011 he worked in the main religion department at ORF radio . There he was responsible for current articles in "Religion aktuell", "Praxis" as well as for journals and news of the current service. He was the moderator of "Religion aktuell" and editor of the ORF religion on the Internet.

In the seventies and eighties he maintained intensive contacts with (left) Christian organizations and personalities in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and southern Africa. Krims was a participant in several all-Christian peace meetings of the Christian Peace Conference in Prague . From 1991 to 1997 he was Vice President of the Austrian Journalists' Union and from 1998 to 2003 Chairman of the Works Council of Radio Austria International and a co-opted member of the ORF Central Works Council .

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Theologians and church people from Europe and the Third World have their say in the journal Critical Christianity , which he founded and edited . Since 1972 he has been the chairman of the "Aktion Kritisches Christianentum" association, which has been publishing this magazine since 1976, initially monthly and since 2002 every two months. He was a co-founder of the Chile Solidarity Front (1973) and the anti- apartheid movement in Austria (1976) and is a board member of the Association "Documentation and Cooperation Center Southern Africa" ​​(SADOCC) and the "Austrian Namibia Society". He has been a member of the board of the Austrian section of Pax Christi since September 2011 , and has been Vice President since March 2016.

Krims has been married since 1975 and is the father of a son and a daughter.

Publications

Books

  • Portugal in Africa, ed. from the Vienna Institute for Development Issues 1973
  • Sense and nonsense of religious education, Bertelsmann Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1974
  • Karol Wojtyla , Pope's Program and Policy, Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1982
  • Karol Wojtyla, Pope and politician, Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1986, revised, updated and expanded edition
  • Karol Wojtyla, Paus en Politicus, In de Knipscheer, Haarlem and Brussels 1985.
  • Wojtyla, programa y política del papa, El Día, Mexico 1984.
  • Wojtyla, programa y política del papa, Editora Pueblo y Liberación, Medellín 1985

Collaboration on edited volumes

  • "From the death of the power church to the resurrection of Christianity", in: Rolf Italiaander (ed.), "Arguments of critical Christians. Why we do not leave the church". Echter Verlag, Würzburg; Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1971
  • "Christian Faith and Social Progress", in: Franz Dotter, Walter Maklin, Josef Sampl (Eds.): "Christian Markings", Europaverlag Vienna, Munich, Zurich, 1979
  • Preface to: Vekoslav Grmič , "Christianity and Socialism", Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 1988
  • "Seen from the left", in: Franz Richard Reiter (Ed.), "Who was Leopold Ungar ?", Ephelant Verlag, Vienna 1994
  • "Third World Solidarity in Crisis. The Service of the Churches under the Conditions of the Almighty Market", in: Thomas Krobath, Michael Bünker (Ed.), "Church - capable of learning for the future? Festschrift for Johannes Dantine on the occasion of his 60th birthday ", Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 1998
  • "On the 75th birthday of Carl Ordinance ", in: Paul Gräsle (Hrsg.), "Christian witness in politically changeable times", Christian publishing house, Stuttgart 2003
  • "Church, Public, Politics", In: Michael Bünker, Evelyn Martin (Eds.) "Heaven is a piece of Vienna, Festschrift for Peter Karner ", Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2004
  • "The Austrian Way", in: Franz Richard Reiter (Ed.), "100 Suggestions for a Better Austria", Ephelant Verlag, Vienna 2006
  • "Frederick Mayer and 'Critical Christianity'", in: Alice Strigl (ed.), "Frederick Mayer - in memory. Creative expansion", Böhlau Verlag, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Editorial office dioezese-linz.at. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 20, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dioezese-linz.at
  2. ↑ Adalbert Krims. In: News ORF Religion. Retrieved November 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ SADOCC - staff ( memento from December 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://w3.khg.jku.at/pax/blog/?page_id=217
personal data
SURNAME Krims, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Freistadt , Upper Austria