Elisabeth Dörler

Elisabeth Dörler (born May 19, 1959 in Bregenz ; † December 18, 2013 ) was an Austrian theologian and member of a secular institute of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Elisabeth Dörler, daughter of the community doctor of Lauterach, studied Catholic theology at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck . After graduation to Magistra for independent religious education on July 10, 1982, she held various municipalities in Vorarlberg as a pastoral assistant working and religion teacher.

In 1986 she joined the work of the Good News Batschuns and worked from 1987 to 1995 as a pedagogical employee in the Batschuns Education Center . During this time, in 1990, she made her first promises and began holding events on Christian-Islamic dialogue. From 1991 to 2001 Dörler was a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Austrian Bishops' Conference .

From 1995 to 2003, Elisabeth Dörler worked as a foreign pastor and religion teacher at the St. Georgs College in Istanbul and on September 19, 1997, she obtained the Turkish language diploma at the University of Ankara . In the 1997/1998 winter semester and 1998 summer semester she was a guest student at the Theological Faculty of Marmara University in Istanbul. Dörler made the eternal promise in 1999.

On 17 February 2003, she was at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Tübingen for a doctor of theology doctorate. Since autumn 2003 she has been the head of the Christian-Muslim Forum.

From December 1, 2003 to October 27, 2013, Dörler was Islam representative of the Diocese of Feldkirch , and from 2007 lecturer on Islam at the University of Innsbruck. In 2012, she fell ill and stopped teaching.

Shortly before her death on December 18, 2013, she was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg on October 26 by the Vorarlberg Governor Markus Wallner . She was buried on December 23, 2013 in the Dornbirn-Rohrbach cemetery.

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

• The development of the Catholic university community Innsbruck since 1945 (= contributions to Austrian student history, Volume 8), Austrian Association for Student History, Vienna 1983, (also Innsbruck 1982, university thesis, diploma thesis University of Innsbruck, in: in: ÖB, 1982, issue 21, number 35).
• Live and learn understanding. Using the example of Turkish Muslims and Vorarlberg Christians. The challenge of the Turkish Muslims to Catholic adult education in Vorarlberg , Die Quelle, Feldkirch 2003, ISBN 3-85241-006-1 .

Articles in collective works

• Religious values ​​and basic attitudes in Islam and Christianity II, in: Academy for Social Work Vorarlberg (Bregenz) (publisher), Christian Hörl (editor), actively shaping living together! - Integration of migrants in Vorarlberg - a symposium. Conference proceedings. Documentation of the Symposium Integration of Migrants in Vorarlberg 15./16. September 2000 Bregenz, (= Writings of the Academy for Social Work Vorarlberg, Volume 7) Bregenz 2001, Bregenz, 2001, pp. 114–118.
• Islam in Austria , in: Peter Hünseler (Ed.), In the service of reconciliation. For an authentic dialogue between Christians and Muslims , Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2128-6 , pp. 207–222.
• Requirements and stumbling blocks for interreligious dialogue. A practical observation from a Christian perspective in Austria, in: Wolfgang Palaver (Hrsg.), Roman Siebenrock (Hrsg.), Dietmar Regensburger (Hrsg.), Western Modernism, Christianity and Islam. Violence as a request to monotheistic religions (= Series Edition Weltordnung, Religion, Violence, Volume 2, The Innsbruck University Press in series), Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-902571-59-5 , pp. 253-256.
• together with Matthias Scharer , Gallegos Sánchez, İsmayil Tokmak, "We built the minaret lower" - on the ambivalent power of religious symbols in the secular public , in: Daniela Kästle (ed.), Martina Kraml (ed.), Hamideh Mohagheghi ( Ed.), Heilig - Tabu. Christians and Muslims dare to meet (= Communicative Theology, Volume 13), Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7867-2784-2 , pp. 201–220.
• From Bosniak to Austrian Islam. Pluralism and Islam in Austria , in: Peter Hünseler and Salvatore Di Noia (eds.), Church and Islam in Dialogue , Regensburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7917-2216-0 , pp. 262–282.
• From the everyday life of living together in Vorarlberg , in: Wolfram Karl (Ed.), Religious freedom under the sign of globalization and multiculturalism . Symposium at the Austrian Institute for Human Rights in Salzburg on July 6, 2012 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute (= publications of the Austrian Institute for Human Rights, Volume 11, Fundamental and Human Rights), Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7097-0003 -7 , pp. 171-175.

Lectures

• On the situation of the Christian minorities in Turkey Lecture in the Evangelical Academy Berlin on the occasion of the symposium Religious Freedom in the Context of Christianity and Islam in cooperation with the Islamic-Christian Working Group (ICA) from September 5th to 7th, 2004

Remarks

1. ↑ Dissertation Live and Learn Understanding. The challenge of the Turkish Muslims to the Catholic adult education in Vorarlberg , published by the publishing house “die quelle”, Feldkirch 2003
2. ↑ An initiative of the Austrian Sankt Georgs-Kolleg Istanbul and the “Work of the Good News Batschun”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Dörler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Always man and never the stranger" - On the death of Dr. Elisabeth Dörler , press release of the Diocese of Feldkirch , accessed on December 20, 2013.
2. ↑ Portrait of Dörler on the website of the Austrian St. Georgs Congregation Istanbul on the occasion of the termination of her activity ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on December 26, 2013
3. ↑ Reader service for the "Vorarlberger Nachrichten" (PDF, 142 kB)
4. ↑ Elisabeth Dörler in portrait on ORF Vorarlberg .
5. ^ Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg for Elisabeth Dörler on October 26, 2013 ( Memento of December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . Broadcast of the Good News on October 26, 2013.
6. ^ Obituary from the "Vorarlberger Nachrichten", accessed on December 26, 2013

predecessor	Office	successor
Karoline Artner	General Manager of the Good Messenger 2007-2013	Brigitte Knünz