Berthold Wulf

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Berthold Wulf (born July 2, 1926 in Hanover ; † June 11, 2012 in Müllheim TG , Switzerland ) was a German pastor of the Christian Community , writer and freelance course instructor and speaker in the context of anthroposophy .

Live and act

Berthold Wulf was the third son of Bertha, b. Lübke, and Karl Wulf, a musician and conductor, born in Hanover. He spent his childhood with his brother, who was almost three years older, who became a pianist, and his twin brother, who later also became an artist as a sculptor and carver of wooden Madonnas, in Bad Salzdethfurt near Hildesheim near Hanover. During this time he wrote his first poems, but little attention was paid to them. This time ended abruptly with military service, which he had to take up at the age of 17. He survived the Normandy invasion on the front line. Towards the end of the war he was on the Eastern Front . He was then taken prisoner of war five times, each time followed by an adventurous escape. After a three-month journey home, he found his home intact and then began a four-year apprenticeship as a goldsmith.

At the age of 21 he became a member of the Anthroposophical Society . He actually wanted to become a Dominican , but was referred to the Christian Community by a friend , whereupon he attended the Christian Community's seminary in Stuttgart . There he was ordained a priest in 1953. He then attended some lectures in theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen . In Stuttgart he also met Ingeborg Köhler, whom he married in 1954. In the marriage three sons were born. In 1953 he began to work as a priest in Berlin , later in Heidelberg and Zurich , where he practiced his profession until his retirement.

Berthold Wulf gave around 8,000 lectures in German-speaking countries, mainly in Switzerland and southern Germany. Most of his oeuvre is poetry, often in terzines , on numerous subjects from nature, literature or religion. The main themes of his prose works are poetry and philosophy of the Goethe era and his understanding of Christianity, which was shaped by anthroposophy.

Works (selection)

His literary work is combined in a self-published complete edition; this comprises 23 volumes.

Below is a selection of the individual issues:

  • Idea and love. A consideration of Goethe's "Faust" 2nd part . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1959
  • He has the well of consolation in his hand. Poems . Tower (Tower Library 10), Bietigheim 1962
  • Behind our hills. Poems . Tower, Bietigheim 1963
  • Melissa. Poems . Tower, Bietigheim 1963
  • Thought and present. 3 chapters on philosophy . Roter Reiter, Langnau am Albis 1964
  • Idea and thinking. Contributions to the understanding of the philosophy of German idealism with special consideration of Kant, Fichte and Hegel . Free Spiritual Life (Studies and Experiments 9), Stuttgart 1964
  • Doctor Angelicus . Are, Ahrweiler 1964
    • New edition as: Thomas Aquinas. Doctor Angelicus . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1982
  • Athens and Ephesus. From the birth of Christianity and the soul of Greece . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1965
  • In heaven and on earth. A seal . Tower, Bietigheim 1965
  • Canticum mundi. A seal . Tower, Bietigheim 1967
  • Eternal gospel. 14 elegies. New poems . Tower, Bietigheim 1968
  • The holy meal, bread and wine . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1969
  • Nature and spirit. The spiritual in nature and its revelation in the historical appearance of Christianity . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1971
  • From the origin of the earth. Mythology, knowledge of nature, spiritual knowledge. In memory of Novalis' "Magical Idealism" . Phil.-Anthr. Verlag, Dornach 1972
  • Maxims of Christianity. Goethe's religious world experience . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1975
  • Sils Maria, Fextal. Poems . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1977
  • Mysterious earth. Your dying and developing processes and the human capacity for knowledge . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980
  • Death, afterlife, reincarnation and the mysteries of Christ. On the Christology of Consciousness . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1981
  • Job the wanderer. Drama in 5 acts . Bläschke, Sankt Michael 1983
  • Calendar of Eternity . Bläschke, Sankt Michael 1983
  • Days in India. Poetry diary of a trip through Dhahran - Dubai - Bombay - Bangalore - Puttaparthi . Ogham (Ogham-Bücherei 10), Stuttgart 1983
  • The earthly life of Christ and the stages of life on earth. The gospel and evolution . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1983

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SURNAME Wulf, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, writer and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2012
Place of death Muellheim TG