Anatol Feid

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Anatol Feid OP (* July 17, 1942 in Wormditt ; † December 24, 2002 in Frankfurt am Main , also Anatol Feid-Flohr , Anatol Phaint , Anatols Feids ) was a priest of the Dominican Order and a multiple award-winning writer. He was involved in the peace movement throughout his life and worked in the Frankfurt drug scene .

Life

After fleeing East Prussia and moving from Leipzig to Sulingen (Lower Saxony), Anatol Feid passed his Abitur in 1963 and entered the Dominican order. After studying philosophy and theology, he was ordained a priest in 1969 and worked as a religion teacher for two years. After that, he was a speaker at the Walberberg Youth Academy for four years . In 1976, the collaboration with the human rights organization of the Archdiocese of Santiago began , from which, among other things, the youth books Dein Vater ist ein Verräter (1981) ( Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize ) and No Fear, Maria (1985) (Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize, Catholic Children's and Young People's Book Prize ).

From 1975 to 2000 he worked in the children's and youth village "Marienhöhe" of the Dominican Sisters of Bethanien in Eltville-Erbach and was also a father, contact person for drug addicts in Frankfurt's train station district and author. From these encounters his youth books with the topic drugs resulted .

In his posthumously published novel Die Kranken des Prälaten Neuffer (2003), Feid describes autobiographically the psychogram of a priest (subtitle) who, because of his political radicalism, has to resolve conflicts with his church, “but lives the message of his faith with the same radicalism”. ( Franz-Josef Payrhuber ) With the figure of the prelate Neuffer he took one of the adult protagonists from his novel Night of a Priest. Protocol of a double life in which he had portrayed an alcohol-addicted Catholic priest in 1996, who for several decades sought sexual contact with underage boys as a suitor on the " station line " and finally repeatedly abused a 12-year-old boy entrusted to him .

Anatol Feid lived in the Bethan Children's and Youth Village until the last year of his life, until he died in hospital as a coma patient after a third stroke .

Selection of works

Films with and about Anatol Feid

literature

  • Franz-Josef Payrhuber: Solidarity with the weak and the outcast. On the death of the Dominican father and author Anatol Feid . In: Volkacher Bote . Bulletin of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature in Volkach am Main. No. 78 , June 2003, p. 16 f . ( Obituary for Feid ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 343 kB ; accessed on June 13, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Feid, Anatol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feid-Flohr, Anatol; Phaint, anatole; Feids, Anatols
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest of the Dominican order and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wormditt
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2002
Place of death Frankfurt am Main