Ellen Ueberschär

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Ellen Ueberschär

Ellen Ueberschär (* 1967 in Berlin-Pankow ) is a German Protestant theologian . Since 2017 she has been one of two board members of the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Life

Ueberschär grew up in East Berlin and initially wanted Medicine study, but this was her by the state denied. She initially trained as a data processing specialist and began studying theology at the Sprachenkonvikt Berlin in 1988 . She continued her studies in Heidelberg and Berlin and passed the first theological exam in 1995. At the same time, she worked on the research project "History of Protestant Youth Work in Two German States", which is supported by the Working Group of Evangelical Youth in Germany.

From November 1995 to March 1997 Ueberschär was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . Until 2001 she worked as a research assistant in the theology department at the University of Marburg . There she did her doctorate in 2002 on a topic of contemporary church history and was awarded the doctoral prize of the University of Marburg for her dissertation. During her vicariate, Ellen Ueberschär worked at the Evangelical Academy in Berlin in the field of contemporary history and politics.

From 2004 to 2006 Ellen Ueberschär was director of studies for theology, ethics and law in the Ev. Academy Loccum . From 2006 to 2017 she was General Secretary of the German Evangelical Church Congress in Fulda . On January 10, 2013, she ran as President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland to succeed Nikolaus Schneider , but Manfred Rekowski was elected . On November 25, 2016, she was elected to the board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation alongside long-term member Barbara Unmüßig , of which she has been a member since July 2017. Ellen Ueberschär is married and has one child.

Honorary positions

Ellen Uerberschär (2019)

From 1983 to 1993 Ueberschär volunteered in the city youth convention in Berlin (today the state youth assembly of the Evangelical Youth Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ) and worked from 1990 to 1992 in the “ Board of Trustees for a Democratically Constituted Federation of German States ”. From 1987 to 1993 she was appointed synod of the state synod of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church , and she has held this office again since 2001. From 2004 to 2012 she was a member of the general assembly of the Heinrich Böll Foundation , which is close to the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party. From 2003 to 2009 she was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany .

Publications

  • Young community in conflict. Protestant youth work in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR 1945–1961 , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-017898-9 (revised edition of her dissertation).
  • The long breath of church youth work? Repression of leisure time and set-up times , in: Horst Dähn and Helga Gotschlich (eds.): And don't lead us into temptation ... - Youth in the field of tension between state and church in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1989 , 1998
  • Female youth work in the GDR , in: Ute Gause, Barbara Heller and Jochen-Christoph Kaiser (eds.): Strong pious women? An interim balance of denominational women's studies today , Evangelical Academy, Hofgeismar 2000, ISBN 3-89281-229-2 .
  • Churchification and Churchification - Protestant Youth Work in the GDR in the 1950s , in: Norbert Friedrich and Traugott Jähnichen (eds.): Sociopolitical Reorientations of Protestantism in the Post-War Period , 2001
  • Way of life and the art of dying - Paul Gerhardt (with Susanne Weichenhan), 2003
  • Pilgrimage Steps - New Spirituality on Ancient Paths. Evangelical Academy Loccum, Rehburg-Loccum 2005, ISBN 3-8172-0205-9 .
  • Do not be afraid! Women make church , Kreuz, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-61123-0 .
  • Religious & restless. The future of Christianity is political. Kreuz, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-946905-02-8 .

Web links

Commons : Ellen Ueberschär  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preses election of the Rheinische Landeskirche - Manfred Rekowski succeeds Nikolaus Schneider. WDR , January 10, 2013, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Succession to the President - Two candidates and one candidate. Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , accessed on January 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ueberschär, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Pankow