Dramaturgical homiletics

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The dramaturgical homiletics is a sermon doctrine that Martin Nicol founded in the course of the aesthetic change in practical theology and developed further together with Alexander Deeg . He was largely inspired by the American New Homiletic movement. Nicol understands the sermon as a publicly responsible speech that arises circularly in the interplay of linguistic form and linguistic content, of form and content and of homiletics and hermeneutics . "How I say something and what I say - both are mutually dependent", is his basic conviction. At the beginning of a sermon, the preacher discovers tensions in the words, images and stories of the Bible with the help of the dramaturgical exploration of the scriptures ( exegesis / dogmatics / liturgy / art and everyday life) and shapes them linguistically in the pulpit speech. The sermon is always to be seen as a moment in the overall dramaturgy of the divine service . Preaching in itself is considered an art among the arts: the production, performance and reception of art become the paradigm for the preaching process.

history

The origin of dramaturgical homiletics lies in Chicago in the mid-1990s. There, Martin Nicol got to know the New Homiletic movement in the USA intensively during a research stay at the McCormick Theological Seminary . The basic conviction that reform impulses only emerge in the interplay of preaching practice and the associated reflection, Nicol took with him from the USA to Erlangen, where he corrected and inspired by practical experiments developed his concept of Dramaturgical Homiletics. In 2002 he then published the program publication “Setting one another in the picture. Dramaturgische Homiletik ”, with which he wanted to inspire students and pastors to a renewed homiletics.

This basic impulse was received with interest in many areas and so Martin Nicol, together with his then colleague Alexander Deeg, further developed the dramaturgical homiletics conceptually and above all didactically. Together they gave advanced training courses in dramaturgical homiletics for students and pastors. They bundled their experiences in the practical book “Im Wechselstufe zu Kanzel” (2005).

In 2010 the two launched the Predigital database project . There, sermons in sound or images are collected and analyzed using the method of dramaturgical homiletics. The material set in this way is intended for the homiletic training, further education and further training of preachers. In this way, homiletic issues can be explained in courses and seminars using examples from practice. Conceptually responsible for Predigital are the chairs for practical theology at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Nicol) and Leipzig (A. Deeg) as well as the worship institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

Mission: Put each other in the picture

"Preaching means: putting one another in the picture." This is how Martin Nicol describes the model of the dramaturgical homiletics in his program in 2002. With the help of the ambiguity of this idiom, he opens up a field of tension in which the preaching takes place between information and imagination.

Understood in the originally figurative sense of the phrase, sermon thus aims at clarifying facts. In the dramaturgical homiletics, however, the literal transmission is emphasized: In an interplay of aesthetic reception, the preacher and the congregation immerse themselves in the words, images and stories of the Bible and discover something exciting together in the space newly opened by the sermon.

Basic concepts of dramaturgical homiletics: Moves and Structure / Title and Means

In the dramaturgical homiletics, analogous to the arts, the technical aspect of "preaching" is emphasized. So a tool has emerged from the basic terms with which both the production and reflection of sermons can be carried out. With these tools, people who work on a sermon move "in step to the pulpit," as Martin Nicol and Alexander Deeg emphasize in their practical book.

Moves & Structure: The dramaturgical aspect of the concept comes into play insofar as the sermon is always designed movement from beginning to end. The overall structure of the sermon speech (Structure) is composed of smaller sermon sequences (Moves) . A move is a small moving unit within a sermon speech. This little unit has its own relative beginning and end. As Structure the structure of the whole sermon is called, more precisely the sermon construction.

Title & Means: Each sermon sequence and the sermon as a whole are given their own title. This title is movement and intention of the sermon or the individual moves can riff expressed. The preacher designs the sermon with the help of various linguistic means. In this alternating step, the correspondence of form and content, rediscovered by the aesthetic change, is expressed.

Dramaturgical homiletics in the studio

From the very beginning, Dramaturgische Homiletik sought a connection to preaching practice and an exchange with active preachers in the church. Martin Nicol and Alexander Deeg are in contact with preachers' seminars, worship institutes and other church training institutions in order to offer those interested the opportunity to get to know their homiletic approach and to gain suggestions for their work.

When the Language Atelier was founded as a registered association in Braunschweig in 2002 , the Dramaturgische Homiletik found a place where it is firmly anchored in the training program. Basic and advanced courses take place there regularly.

literature

  • Katharina Bach-Fischer, Romina Rieder, Franziska Grießer-Birnmeyer (eds.): Put each other in the picture. Sermons from the dramaturgical-homiletic workshop. Göttingen 2018.
  • Alexander Deeg, Martin Nicol: Put each other in the picture. In: Lars Charbonnier, Konrad Merzyn and Peter Meyer (eds.): Homiletics. Current concepts and their implementation. Göttingen 2012, pp. 68–84.
  • Alexander Deeg, Martin Nicol: alternating step to the pulpit. Practice book Dramaturgische Homiletik. Göttingen 2005.
  • Alexander Deeg, Martin Nicol: Open text spaces. In: ArbStGodi 23 (2/2009), pp. 34-40.
  • Albrecht Grözinger: Homiletics. Conceptualizations "dramaturgical homiletics". Gütersloh 2008, pp. 94–297.
  • Martin Nicol: Preaching from within. Homiletic navigation lights from North America. In: PTh (86) 1997, pp. 295-309.
  • Martin Nicol: Put each other in the picture. Dramaturgical homiletics. Goettingen ²2005.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Nicol: Put each other in the picture. Dramaturgische Homiletik, Göttingen 2002, p. 65.