Astrid Eichler

Astrid Eichler (* 1958 in Ludwigslust ) is a German Protestant theologian , pastor, speaker and author. From 1988 to 2013 she was pastor of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).

Live and act

Eichler grew up in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , learned to be a nurse and studied Protestant theology at the Paulinum in Berlin from 1982 to 1986 on the second educational path . After ordination in 1988, she worked as a pastor of the Evangelical Church Congregation Buchholz in small rural communities in Prignitz until 2004 . Afterwards she was active in prison chaplaincy in Berlin with a church mandate .

In 2009, she founded the network “Es muss was different gab” (EmwAg) in Berlin - today “Solo & Co”, a work for singles that is particularly popular among women. There she works in the management team, since 2011 as a federal advisor and was active on the board of the sponsoring association until 2019.

From 2000 to 2002 she volunteered as president of the Christian-oriented Prignitzer Kuckuck Kickers . From 2011 to 2013 she completed an advanced training course in “Contemplation and Counseling” in Switzerland and in 2015 she obtained certification as a “persolog” trainer. She has been a member of the main board of the German Evangelical Alliance since 2012 . In 2013 she separated from the EKBO.

Eichler has been writing for the magazine “ Aufatmen ” of “bvMedia Christliche Medien GmbH”, a subsidiary of SCM Bundes-Verlag in Witten , since 1995 .

She comes from the Martin Luther family , through whose youngest daughter Margarethe she is connected on the mother's side and lives near Berlin.

Publications

• God wants us to live , SCM R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 978-3-417-24431-1 .
• God has won: our limits are his possibilities , SCM R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 978-3-417-24461-8 .
• There has to be something else: Perspectives on life for singles , SCM R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-417-26703-7 ; 5th adult Edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-417-26573-6 .
  • Povolání k životu bez manželství (Czech), Návrat Dom ° u, Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-7255-198-9 .
• There is something else !: Community life for singles and families (with Thomas and Irene Widmer-Huber), SCM R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2010, ISBN 978-3-417-26347-3 .
• Peace, joy - puff cake !: How the Bible helps us to cope with conflicts , SCM R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2015, ISBN 978-3-417-26660-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Astrid Eichler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Astrid Eichler  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Astrid Eichler: Kurzvita , ead.de, accessed on November 1, 2016.
2. ↑ May 2009: The association “There must be something else” is founded in Berlin , soloundco.net, accessed on December 15, 2019.
3. ↑ Eichler becomes federal advisor to the EmwAg ( memento from November 1, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ), emwag.net, notification from January 1, 2011
4. ↑ “There must be something else”: Eichler withdraws from the board
5. ↑ Astrid Eichler: Vita , soloundco.net, accessed on July 30, 2017.
6. ↑ The German Evangelical Alliance is expanding its network , ead.de, article from December 10, 2012.
7. ^ Pastor compares the Protestant regional church with the GDR system ( memento from November 1, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ), pro-medienmagazin.de, article from November 7, 2013.
8. ↑ Without Martin Luther, I wouldn't exist , idea.de, article from October 26, 2016.