Annette Mehlhorn

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Annette Mehlhorn (born March 16, 1958 in Hofheim am Taunus ) is a German theologian, university lecturer and theater pedagogue.

Life

Professional background

Annette Mehlhorn studied Protestant theology between 1978 and 1984 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . After her second theological exam, she studied play and theater education at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1988 to 1991 . Parallel to her work as a freelance theater pedagogue, she obtained a grant from the Hessian Luther Foundation with her work Vorwärts zum Ursprung? Ritual aspects of theater work as a search for clues in the absurdity of the doctorate. From 1996 she worked in Frankfurt am Main as a pastor in the parishes of Markus and St. Jakob (later merged to form the Evangelical Church of Bockenheim ), and in 2000 she switched to the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain as a director of studies . She then worked as a pastor in Rüsselsheim am Main between 2005 and 2013 , at the same time she was a lecturer at the University of Siegen from 2010 to 2013 .

Since 2013 she has led the German-speaking Christian Congregation Shanghai (DCGS) as a pastor together with a Catholic priest .

Annette Mehlhorn was a founding member and chairwoman of the interreligious and non-partisan women's initiative Sarah & Hagar e. V. , who was awarded the Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz Prize in 2009, and chairwoman of the Bendorfer Forum for Ecumenical Encounters and Interreligious Dialogue .

family

Her maternal grandfather was the business administration and university professor Friedrich Henzel (1891–1984). Her father Richard Mehlhorn (* 1929) was a member of the board of the Association of Publicly Appointed Surveying Engineers between 1974 and 1996 . His sister, the cultural anthropologist Erika Haindl (1931–2019), wife of the artist Hermann Haindl (1927–2013), was her aunt.

Publications (selection)

  • Forward to the origin? Ritual aspects of theater education as a search for traces in absurdity, examined using two acting methods , Berlin 1995. (Dissertation)
  • Crashed? Theology and Church in the Age of Electronic Information and Communication Technology , Frankfurt / Main 2002. (Ed.)
  • Mindfulness. Martin Buber as teacher and translator , Berlin 2006. (Ed. With Ansgar Koschel )
  • Feminist theology. Initiatives, churches, universities - a success story , Gütersloh 2008. (Ed. With Renate Jost , Claudia Janssen , Gisela Matthiae and Antje Röckemann)
  • Caring for one another. Religion, secularity and gender in the globalized world , Weinheim and Basel 2015. (Ed. With Brigitta Kreß )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Annette Mehlhorn ( Memento from December 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Annette Bassler meets Dr. Annette Mehlhorn, pastor of the German-speaking community in Shanghai. In: SWR1 , October 6, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 . (Manuscript)
  3. ↑ Review of Caring for One Another . In: socialnet.de , July 28, 2015, accessed on January 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Richard Mehlhorn. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Committed citizen. Erika Haindl is dead. In: Frankfurter Wochenblatt , May 8, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mehlhorn, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, university lecturer and theater pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hofheim am Taunus