Eugen Eckert (pastor)

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Eugen Eckert in Frankfurt am Main 2008

Eugen Eckert (* 1954 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German social worker and pastor , songwriter and lecturer .

Life

Eckert's family comes from a predominantly Catholic Hungarian-German region on Lake Balaton . His Protestant mother, who, like his Catholic father, comes from Hungary, met Eckert's father in the Schlüchtern refugee camp. Shortly before his death, Eckert's father joined the Evangelical Church.

Eckert initially worked as a social worker in his hometown. In 1990 he became pastor in the Protestant Lauterborn parish in Offenbach . From 1996 to 2016 he worked as a student pastor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . At the beginning of 2007, the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau commissioned him as a stadium pastor in the Frankfurt Commerzbank-Arena for half a job . On January 1, 2017, he switched from university to the field of “Church and Sport”. On behalf of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) he works with the second half of his position as a contact pastor to the sports associations. For this purpose, he is available as a speaker to the EKD's sports officer, Church President Volker Jung .

He is the author of choral devotions for the WDR , since 2016 also for Evangelical Morning Celebrations on HR 2 and author of books. From 1993 to 2013 he taught as a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1976 he has been writing the lyrics of new sacred songs . He is the author of around 1,500 songs, eleven oratorios, a requiem, numerous masses, musical plays and cantatas. Eckert was a founding member in 1975 and is still a musician of the Frankfurt band Habakuk . Since it was founded, she has recorded 21 of her own studio productions (LPs and CDs since 1991).

From 1980 to 2012 Eckert worked for 32 years as an appointed member in the working group for church music and youth pastoral care in the Diocese of Limburg . After its chairman Patrick Dehm was terminated without notice by Limburg Vicar General Franz Kaspar in 2012 as head of the Catholic “House of Encounters” , Eckert resigned from the working group in protest against this decision.

Eckert is a founding member of the ecumenical association inTAKT eV to promote the “New Spiritual Song”, which was founded on April 8, 2013. Together with Patrick Dehm and Annette Kreuzer, Eugen Eckert forms the association's board. Since 1996, together with church musicians, he has been leading an annual one-week, ecumenical training course for soloists and choirs on the New Spiritual Song on the island of Spiekeroog , which has been taking place with inTAKT eV since 2013. Since 1997 he has coordinated and moderated the annual Ecumenical Day of the New Spiritual Song in Wetzlar.

Works

Eugen Eckert (right) with the Habakuk band at the German Evangelical Church Congress 2007

Songs

  • “Breath of life, woe to us”, 1997, music: Alejandro Veciana
  • “From your hand”, music: Joachim Raabe
  • "Better than me", 1999, music: Horst Christill
  • “Keep us, God”, music: Anders Ruuth
  • “Stay, angel, stay”, music: Alejandro Veciana
  • “There lives a longing deep within us”, music: Anne Quigley
  • “Your is the time”, music: Alejandro Veciana
  • “To the God who gives all life”, music: Alejandro Veciana
  • “Invited to the Festival of Faith”, music: Alejandro Veciana
  • “A new heaven, a new earth”, music: Jürgen Kandziora
  • “It's summer”, music: Alejandro Veciana
  • "God, your love goes far", music: Winfried Heurich
  • “God sent me an angel long ago”, music: Thomas Gabriel
  • "Hold on to your dreams", music: Jürgen Kandziora
  • “I won't let you”, music: Peter Reulein , contribution to the song competition of the Ecumenical Church Congress in Berlin 2003
  • "You should be a blessing", music: Andreas Neuwirth
  • “In cold times”, music: Peter Reulein.
  • “Llamado soy de Dios - I know God's call”, music: Jose Aguir
  • “My narrow limits”, music: Winfried Heurich and Gerhard Fleischer
  • “With you, Maria, we sing”, 1994, music: JC Gjanadda
  • “Before the sun was in the sky”, music: Sergej A. Bazuk
  • "Dandelion, dandelion", music: Alejandro Veciana
  • "Seht, Brot und Wein", 1999, music: Peter Reulein
  • “Be confident and undaunted”, music: Fritz Baltruweit
  • “Longing for something completely different”, music: Ludger Stühlmeyer
  • "You surround me on all sides", music: Torsten Hampel
  • "If singing were full of our mouths", music: Alejandro Veciana
  • “Wide spaces for my feet”, music: Alejandro Veciana
  • “We saw his star”, music: Peter Reulein
  • “Where love lives”, music: Alejandro Veciana

Oratorios

  • “Job”, 1994, music: Jürgen Blume
  • “Daniel”, 1996, music: Thomas Gabriel
  • “Emmaus”, 2002, music: Thomas Gabriel
  • “Simeon”, 2007, music: Thomas Gabriel
  • “Eleasar”, 2008, music: Gerd-Peter Münden
  • “Junia”, 2010, music: Thomas Gabriel
  • “And then there was light”, 2013 for the Merseburg Organ Days, music: Thomas Gabriel
  • “Maria”, 2014, music: Thomas Gabriel, WP March 29, 2014, Evangelical Peace Church, Ratingen
  • “Feuerzungen”, 2014, music: Peter Reulein , premier June 7th, 2014, Liebfrauenkirche, Frankfurt a. M.
  • “So long here stood stone on stone”, 2016. On the occasion of the commemoration “350 years of the plague in Flörsheim am Main (1666-2016)”. Commissioned work for the city of Flörsheim. Music: Pupils and teachers of the Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium in Flörsheim.
  • "Brother Martin", 2017 - Luther Oratorio for soloists, choir, orchestra and band. Music: Thomas Gabriel. World premiere on September 17, 2017, open-air theater in Tecklenburg / Westphalia.
  • St. Matthew Passion: "Christ's Cross in Front of Eyes", 2020. Commissioned work for the choir of the minster in Constance. Music Thomas Gabriel. Strube-Verlag, Munich.

requiem

  • "Truth in Flames - A Requiem for Jan Hus", 2017, music: Ralf Grössler. World premiere 20. – 22. January 2017 in Wildeshausen.

Publications

  • God is my song, is my power. 75 psalm poems for chorale melodies and each with new settings, Strube-Verlag, Munich, Edition 1284.
  • Through high and low. Hymnbook of the Protestant Student Congregations in Germany, 2008, Strube-Verlag, Munich, Edition 6502.
  • CD A window to heaven. New release on May 20, 2011. Band HABAKUK with sacred pop and rock music on topics of the 33rd German Evangelical Church Congress in Dresden and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
  • The light in our hearts - Celtic mass based on sacred texts from Ireland and Scotland for choir and folk band. Texts: Eugen Eckert, music: Peter Reulein. Strube Edition 6574, 2010.
  • Singing - helping the angels and the frogs. In: Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter, What are you doing, the angel asks - Mysticism in everyday life , Freiburg 2004, pp. 145 ff.
  • Songs as night shelters for the wounded away - sermon on 1 Sam 16, 4 ff. In: Katrin Göring-Eckardt / Gerald Hagmann (ed.): Sermons and pulpit speeches with hearts, mouth and hands , Leipzig 2011, p. 23 ff.
  • Summer freshness for the soul - a spiritual vacation guide. 2012, Eugen Eckert & Sigurd Rink, Kreuz-Verlag, Freiburg.
  • The best time of the year is mine - chorale devotions from well-known personalities. Ed. Gerd Höft and Susanne Schart, eteos, media association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, 2013. With contributions by Fritz Baltruweit, Eugen Eckert, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Norbert Lammert, Nikolaus Schneider and others. a.
  • Reformation risks and side effects on present day hymns. (Contribution by Eugen Eckert) In: A new song we raise - the songs of Martin Luther and the poetic-musical effect of the Reformation. Ed. Volker Gallé , Worms-Verlag 2013, pp. 97 ff.
  • The Holy Spirit is not a swallow - God, football, and other important things. A football and life book full of depth. Thinking about falling and getting up, foul play and remorse, dealing with rules, victories and defeats, success and failure in conversations, etc. a. with Steffi Jones, Volker Jung, Sebastian Kehl, Nia Künzer, Peter Steinacker, Dragoslav Stepanovic, Rudi Völler, Lutz Wagner. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 2014.
  • Just like that - album with three CDS for the 40th stage anniversary of the band HABAKUK. Big hits from four decades and brand new ones. 2015.
  • Sing to God - gospel mass for soloists, mixed choir, piano and congregation. Music: Kai Lünnemann. Dehm-Verlag, Limburg 2016
  • Now - new CD release on May 20, 2017. Band HABAKUK with 13 new titles. 50:18 minutes total playing time. Sacred pop and rock music on topics of the 36th German Evangelical Church Congress in Berlin and Wittenberg.
  • Just like that, songbook for the CD of the same name and for the CD "Jetzt". 58 songs by the Frankfurt band HABAKUK - texts and melodies, harmonies and choral movements, some arrangements. Ed. Eugen Eckert. Strube-Verlag, Munich, Edition 6894, 2018.
  • A hand's breadth from you. New texts and melodies for all 150 psalms in the Bible - texts by Eugen Eckert, Dietmar Fischenich, Helmut Schlegel and others. a. in settings by Horst Christill, Alexander Keidel, Johann Simon Kreuzpointner, David Plüss, Joachim Raabe, Peter Reulein a. a. Published by Dehm-Verlag, Limburg, 2019.
  • whatever happens - new CD release by Strube-Verlag in Munich on June 10, 2019. 14 new titles by the Frankfurt band HABAKUK. Total playing time 54:50 minutes. Pop and rock music, reggae, country and chanson with sacred texts on the slogan of the 37th German Evangelical Church Congress in Dortmund "What a trust". A song book with the 14 texts, melodies and harmonies has also been published with the CD.
  • Life dance - cantata for solo, mixed choir and piano. Text: Eugen Eckert (on texts from the biblical books of wisdom Kohelet and Proverbs). Music: Thomas Gabriel. Published by Strube-Verlag, Munich, Edition 4142, July 2019.
  • Moving between heaven and earth - successful examples of church and sport . Editing, together with Albert Mehl and Volker Rahn and author of an article on the work in the Frankfurt stadium band. August 2019.
  • Ultimately, you inherit the land - Peace Mass with New Spiritual Songs for four-part choir, piano, band and congregation. Text: Eugen Eckert. Music: Johann Simon Kreuzpointner. Edition 73 in Dehm-Verlag, Limburg, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autobiographical description
  2. ^ Open letter on the termination of Patrick Dehm
personal data
SURNAME Eckert, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social worker and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main