Christa Blanke

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Christa Blanke-Weckbach (born September 18, 1948 in Gießen ) is a German theologian and animal rights activist . She is the founder of the European animal welfare organization Animals' Angels . From 1978 to 2000 she was a Protestant pastor of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . In 2000 she resigned from the Evangelical Church, losing her clerical status and all pension entitlements. From 1995 to 1998 she was chairwoman of the animal welfare advisory board of the Hessian state government .

Life

Christa Blanke was born in Gießen in 1948 as the daughter of Heinz and Ilse Weckbach. She spent her youth in Frankfurt , attended the Herder-Gymnasium and was involved, among other things, in the Evangelical Youth Organization . From 1966 to 1972 she studied Protestant theology at the universities of Hamburg , Heidelberg and Frankfurt . In 1971/72 in Hamburg, together with other theologians, she organized the pilot project " Faith Information" , initiated by Helmut Thielicke , today Other Times . After the vicariate in the German congregation in Edinburgh , she came to a parish vicarage in Offenbach am Main in 1972 . From 1978 to 1999 Christa Blanke lived with her family in Glauburg . There she worked as a naturopath for psychotherapy in her own practice, as well as on a voluntary basis in the parish of Glauberg . During this time, the Hanau telephone counseling engaged her to train and supervise the volunteer workers.

In addition to her pastoral work, Christa Blanke emerged as an animal rights activist from the mid-1980s. To draw attention to the suffering of the laboratory animals of the Frankfurt chemical company Hoechst , she celebrated a service in front of the factory gates in 1986 under the motto “Hoechst, have mercy!” . In 1987 she celebrated a service with animals on the Römerberg in Frankfurt as part of the 22nd German Evangelical Church Congress . In the same year she collected 13,000 signatures on a petition to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau not to use eggs from battery cells in church facilities. In 1988 she and her husband Pastor Michael Blanke celebrated the first animal service at the rectory in Glauberg, which was broadcast live by ZDF . In 1988 Christa Blanke formulated the Glauberg confession of guilt together with her husband Michael Blanke , and together they founded AKUT e. V. (Action Church and Animals), which campaigns for the rights of animals in church and society. In 1995 Christa Blanke became aware of the Europe-wide animal transports through media reports and in 1998 founded the animal welfare association Animals' Angels , which under her leadership became internationally known as the only specialist organization for animal welfare on transports .

In 1987, Christa Blanke and her husband Michael Blanke wrote the text for the musical Jesus - one of us by the sacro-pop composer Peter Janssens , which u. a. was also performed in the Alte Oper Frankfurt .

In 1995 Christa Blanke, together with her husband Michael Blanke, initiated the installation of the plastic Arche creation by the Worms sculptor Gustav Nonnenmacher in the Protestant church in Glauberg .

In 2008 Christa Blanke founded the first Kuhaltersheim in Germany. In 2011, Christa Blanke collected 1.2 million signatures for the Europe-wide 8hours campaign to limit the transport of slaughtered animals within the EU to eight hours.

In 2015 Christa Blanke set up the Animal Memorial website under the umbrella of Animals' Angels eV. The site commemorates numerous so-called farm animals, which the Animals' Angels teams encountered during their research and which were transported and killed in the course of meat production, including names and pictures. In 2018 she can be seen in the animal rights film Citizen Animal - A Small Family's Quest for Animal Rights . At the end of 2018 she produced the film With the Eyes of Love on behalf of Animals' Angels , which tells about the ethics and the formation of the animal welfare association.

Honors

  • 1999: Prize of the Hans Rönn Foundation
  • October 1999: Franziskuspreis for Christa and Michael Blanke for their services to the subject of animals and the church
  • November 1999: Hessian animal welfare award for their commitment to the protection of livestock and slaughter animals
  • February 2001: Lord Houghton Award as the first foreigner, for her contribution to improving the transport of slaughtered animals within Europe
  • 2003: Marchig Trust Animal Welfare Award
  • October 2004: Karl Adolf Laubscher Prize for environmental and animal protection
  • 2008: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2010: EUROGROUP Award
  • 2010: Fairness Award from Cavallo in the category "Horse lover"
  • 2019: St. Francis Award from Catholic Concern for Animals

Publications

  • Small horses - great happiness. Love letters about ponies. Mueller Rueschlikon Verlag, 1968.
  • Then the rooster crowed - church for animals? A polemic. Verlag am Eschbach, Eschbach / Markgräflerland 1995; ISBN 3-88671-159-5 .
  • With the eyes of love - We are with the animals. A diary of hope. Animals' Angels Press, 2011; ISBN 978-3-9814946-0-0 :
    • Italian edition: Con gli occhi dell'amore - Siamo con gli animali. Un diario della speranza. Animals' Angels Press, 2013; ISBN 978-3-9814946-5-5 ;
    • engl. Edition: With the Eyes of Love - We are there with the animals. Dispatches from the front line. Animals' Angels Press, 2012; ISBN 978-3-9814946-4-8 ;
    • Spanish edition: Con los ojos del Amor - Diario desde las trincheras Estamos ahí con los animales. Animals' Angels Press, 2014.
  • 8 hours is more than enough! Europe calls for an end to long-distance transports of live animals. Animals' Angels Press, 2012; ISBN 978-3-9814946-6-2 .
  • Let my People go - Claiming the Bible for the Animals. Animals' Angels Press, 2013; ISBN 978-3-9814946-6-2 .
  • Animal protection in Germany. A collection of reports. Animals' Angels Press, 2014; ISBN 978-3-9816696-0-2 .
  • The power of the individual - 14 biographies. Animals' Angels Press, 2016; ISBN 978-3-9816696-5-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Last step taken - Pastor Christa Blanke-Weckbach has left the church. In: Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, No. 02, 2001, p. 19.
  2. ↑ a b c "Christa Blanke" - biography (PDF), website of Animals' Angels e. V. Accessed February 9, 2015.
  3. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Christa Blanke-Weckbach - Commitment to animals. Osthessen News, December 15, 2008, accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Herbert Becker: Animal Rights - Why? Animal Rights TV, accessed February 9, 2015 .
  5. ^ Press release by the Evangelical Press Service Hessen / Nassau , December 3, 1987
  6. ↑ 25 years ago: Fuss about animal worship on TV. Wetterauer Zeitung, July 11, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  7. ^ Glauberger confession of guilt. (No longer available online.) AKUT e. V., archived from the original on February 9, 2015 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aktion-kirche-und-tiere.ch
  8. ^ Egon Spiegel : "Praedicate Evangelium omni creaturae" (Mk 16.15), the challenge of the Glauberg confession of guilt. In: God's People, Bible and Liturgy in the Life of the Congregation, reading year B. Hubert Ritt , accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  9. ^ History of AKUT. (No longer available online.) AKUT e. V., archived from the original on February 9, 2015 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aktion-kirche-und-tiere.ch
  10. ↑ Christa Blanke - Introduction. Albert Schweitzer Foundation, June 26, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Nina Boehme: Just eat grass. In: A Heart for Animals, No. 03, 2008, pp. 12-13.
  12. ↑ www.animalmemorial.org . Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  13. ↑ citizenanimal.de: Speakers. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Through the Eyes of Love on YouTube , accessed February 12, 2019.
  15. ^ Hessian animal welfare award. Young Freedom, accessed February 9, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Commitment to animals honored with the Cross of Merit. Giessener Allgemeine, December 15, 2008, accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  17. ↑ All Welcome to the CCA Awards Ceremony 2019. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Blanke, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanke-Weckbach, Christa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and animal rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH to water