Dieter Trautwein

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Dieter Trautwein (born July 30, 1928 in Holzhausen am Hünstein (today part of Dautphetal ), Biedenkopf district ; † November 9, 2002 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Protestant theologian , provost of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and numerous lyricist and composer New spiritual songs .

Life

Trautwein studied theology in Marburg , Mainz and Heidelberg . After vicariates in Königstein , Limburg and Bad Nauheim , he was the first owner of the newly created position of youth pastor in Frankfurt am Main from 1963 to 1970 . In 1969 the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau appointed him provost for Frankfurt. He held this office until 1988. In 1971 he received his doctorate in theology at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on the learning process of worship .

After the end of his tenure as provost, Trautwein became chairman and managing director of the Frankfurt Bible Society . The Bible Museum on the Museumsufer , which he sponsored , was only opened after his death in 2003.

He was a long-time member of the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress and chairman of the Worship Committee of the 6th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver in 1983. During his tenure as provost, two church days took place in Frankfurt in 1975 and 1987, which he played a key role in. Since the mid-1960s, he and his wife Ursula Trautwein publicly opposed apartheid in South Africa .

As a young man in the 1960s, Dieter Trautwein was one of the first people to stand up for the recognition of Oskar Schindler and his life's work (the rescue of 1200 Jews during the Nazi era).

Dieter Trautwein also appeared in public as a lyricist and composer of numerous new sacred songs. As the editor of song collections, he particularly promoted the ecumenical idea and the international networking of the churches.

Trautwein received numerous honors, including the plaque of honor of the city of Frankfurt am Main in 1988 and, as the first Protestant, the Bartholomäus Medal of the Catholic Church in Frankfurt, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1989 and the Hedwig Burgheim Medal of the City of Gießen in 1990 for special services to understanding and understanding between people. He was a member of the ecumenical lyricists and composers group of the Werkgemeinschaft Musik eV and the AG Musik in der Ev. Jugend eV, today the lyricists and composers group TAKT .

He is the father of the general superintendent of Berlin , Ulrike Trautwein .

Works

Trautwein created 220 hymns, half of them compositions based on his own texts, the other half as transcriptions from ecumenism. The Evangelical Hymnbook , published in 1996, contains seven songs by Trautwein in the main part. The Catholic prayer and hymn book Gotteslob from 2013 also contains compositions and transcriptions by Trautwein. Also in the hymnal of the Methodist Church from 2002 Trautwein is represented.

Hymns

  • Because God appeared in the dead of night , 1963, EG 56
  • You beautiful tree of life of paradise 1974, EG 96
  • Come, Lord, bless us that we will not part , 1978, EG 170, GL 451
  • Many rays break out of one light , 1976, EG 268 (text by Anders Frostenson from the Swedish)
  • How the deer thirsts for fresh water , 1983, EG 278 (text only, after Psalm 42 and 43)
  • I want to go to my father , 1976, EG 315 (only melody, text based on Luke 15 by Lotte Denkhaus)
  • Let the root of our actions be love , EG 417 1986 (only text of the second stanza, first stanza by Paul Kaestner 1921, music by Volker Ochs 1971)

Other works

  • Come Lord bless us. Life memories . Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-87476-437-0
  • Oskar Schindler - always new stories . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7973-0734-9

Co-editing

  • Basler Mission, Evangelisches Missionswerk in Germany (ed.): Thuma Mina. International Ecumenical Songbook . Developed by Dieter Trautwein, Beatrice Aebi, Johanna Linz and Dietrich Werner. Strube, Munich and Basileia, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-921946-17-4 (Strube) / ISBN 3-85555-045-X (Basileia)
  • World Council of Churches (Ed.): Cantate Domino. An ecumenical hymn book . Kassel, Bärenreiter 1983, ISBN 3-7618-4994-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on August 21, 1989 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1989 No. 36 , p. 1846 , point 817 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.3 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Trautwein, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, lyricist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzhausen am Hünstein
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2002
Place of death Frankfurt am Main