Angelika B. Hirsch

Angelika B. Hirsch (* 1955 in Anklam ) is a German religious scholar and author.

Life and education

Angelika B. Hirsch was born as the eldest of four children of a pastor and a dietician and grew up in a parsonage in the Anklam district . For political reasons, she was denied access to an extended high school . An attempt to escape across the inner-German border failed and she was imprisoned for ten months from 1974 to 1975. In Naumburg an der Saale she was able to do the church Abitur at the proseminar there. This was followed by pedagogical training and work with children and young people in the church area. She spent a few years in a Benedictine monastery , where the second first name Benedicta comes from. After the fall of the wall she studied from 1992 to 1998 Berlin at the Free University of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies and graduated with the doctorate to the Dr. phil. from.

Therapeutic training followed:

• 1995–1999 Transactional Analysis Basic Competence (Institute for Communication Therapy Dr. Gisela Kottwitz, Berlin)
• 1998–2001 Respiratory Therapy (Institute for Respiratory Teaching Erika Kemmann, Berlin) Graduated with AFA diploma

artistic education

• 1993–2001 training as a storyteller at the European Fairy Tale Society (Rheine)

From 1998 to 2009, Hirsch was employed as a consultant in a crisis and life counseling service (open door berlin eV).
Since 2012 she has been Vice President of the European Fairy Tale Society (Rheine).

Works

• Fairy tales as sources for the history of religion? A new attempt to deal with the old problems of the continuity of oral tradition and the dating of fairy tales (dissertation), Europäische Hochschulschriften Peter Lang 1998
• At the thresholds of life, Why we need rituals of transition , first edition 2004, Munich; New edition of Verbekanntenverlag 2011 ISBN 978-3-865330-02-4
• Together with Lothar Köster: Cimalmotto - About happiness in Ticino at the end of the world , Verhabenenverlag 2007
• SLOW FOOT - From Munich to Venice , Verhabenenverlag 2008
• Together with Lothar Köster: A house in Neukölln. Almost a declaration of love , Verhabenenverlag 2008
• Why the woman was wearing the hat. A small cultural history of the wedding ritual , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008 ISBN 978-3-525604-37-3
• Globus Warthestraße - people with a migration background tell their story . Funded by the district management Schillerpromenade within the framework of the Social City program, Verendetenverlag 2009
• QUER - A West-East German hiking report, with photos and short texts by Lothar Köster and with a colored route map , Veranntenverlag 2012
• Spinning straw into gold , Publisher: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren 2013 ISBN 978-3-834011-99-2
• Ugra goes . An old Siberian fairy tale retold by Angelika B. Hirsch and painted by Jorge Lopes, hospiz verlag Esslingen (2016) ISBN 978-3-941251-95-3
• Together with Ursula Thomas and Veronika Uhlich: Fairy tales for people with dementia - Use safely and competently in care , Vincentz Network, Hanover (2016) ISBN 978-3-866304-52-9

Web links

• Personal website
• Literature by and about Angelika B. Hirsch in the catalog of the German National Library