Eva Renate Schmidt

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Eva Renate Schmidt (born April 7, 1929 in Karlsruhe ) is a German Protestant feminist theologian and organizational consultant . She is one of the pioneers of the women's movement in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and of community counseling in Germany.

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Childhood, education, family

Eva Renate Schmidt's father was a pastor . In 1949 she passed her Abitur in Offenburg . From 1949 to 1953 she studied theology in Heidelberg and Basel , although her father had advised against it because he saw no chance for her as a woman in the church. In 1954 she was one of the first women to be ordained . From 1954 to 1959 Eva Renate Schmidt was active in youth work and worked with young workers and saleswomen in Mannheim . From 1959 to 1963 she headed the social department in the Burckhardthaus in Gelnhausen , from 1965 to 1971 she worked as director of the facility. In 1971 Schmidt went to England and the USA for two years . She studied economics and sociology at a college in rugby and at universities in Houston and Pittsburgh . In addition, she trained as a supervisor in clinical pastoral training and as a gestalt therapist and organizational consultant. From 1973 to 1992 she was the founder and first director of studies for community counseling and further training in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN).

Church leadership positions

Schmidt's attempt to get into a leadership position in the church initially failed. In 1986 Schmidt ran for the office of deputy church president of the EKHN, but was not elected. In contrast, in the same year she was elected Deputy President of the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Hesse and Nassau. She held this office until she retired.

Commitment to feminist theology

Eva Renate Schmidt promoted feminist theology in various functions. In this way she contributed to the establishment of the Association for the Promotion of Feminist Theology in the EKHN . Together with Mieke Korenhof and Renate Jost , she edited the volumes Read Feministically, which appeared in 1988 and 1989 . There are biblical texts in which women play a special role. During this time, more and more women started looking for their own roots in the biblical tradition. In 2006 she was an associate editor of the Bible in Righteous Language . In the further training of pastors, church leaders and other volunteers, she insisted that there should always be at least five women among the participants. On the subject of management and leadership of women in the church she offered seminars. In an article, Eva Renate Schmidt explained what the consequences would be if all women in the church refused to serve for a month. She came to this conclusion: “Women carry the Church and men lead it.” In Switzerland she conducted seminars for women in leadership positions.

Work as a consultant

At the beginning of the 1970s, Eva Renate Schmidt introduced scientific methods into the pastoral care and counseling work of the church. As the head of community counseling at EKHN, she developed the facility further, especially in terms of training and further education. Her book Advising with Contact , which she published in 1995 together with Hans Georg Berg, became the standard work . In it, she presents the counseling as a process that, with the initial contact and the counseling contract, leads through data collection, diagnosis and intervention to the conclusion of the counseling. Also together with Hans Georg Berg, she published the book Stopping and Beginning in 1983 , which deals with upheavals in parishes. The EKHN church president, Volker Jung , described Eva Renate Schmidt as a "pioneer of church counseling in Germany".

Eva Renate Schmidt retired on June 1, 1992. Today she lives on Lake Maggiore in Italy .

Awards

In 1992 Eva Renate Schmidt was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern .

Publications

  • with Ingrid Adam: dealing with time. Community counseling . Supplementary booklet. Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Gelnhausen / Offenbach / Berlin and Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1978, ISBN 3-76643058-0 .
  • with Ingrid Adam: Theology and group dynamics. In: Klaus Lubkoll (Ed.): Group dynamics and theology. Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions. Working texts No. 17. Stuttgart VIII / 1978. Online (as of May 13, 2019).
  • with Hans Georg Berg: stop and start. Vicissitudes in the everyday life of a community. Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Gelnhausen / Offenbach / Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-76649158-X .
  • with Mieke Korenhof, Renate Jost (eds.): Read feminist. 2 volumes. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-78310909-4 and 1989, ISBN 3-78310949-3 .
  • with Hans Georg Berg: Advice with contact. Handbook for community and organizational counseling. Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Gelnhausen / Offenbach / Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-83704886-5 .

literature

  • Marlies Flesch-Thebesius : First head of studies and initiator of community advice in the EKHN, Eva Renate Schmidt. In: Helga Engler-Heidle, Marlies Flesch-Thebesius (ed.): Women in the gown. A piece of Frankfurt church history. Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-92217929-0 , pp. 145–157.
  • Heidi Witzig : How smart women get old. Xanthippe-Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-90579503-5 . Including Eva Maria Schmidt.
  • Sibylle Becker: Eva Renate Schmidt: "... that has everything to do with feminist theology". Uncovering hidden knowledge and changing structures as a feminist-theological practice. In: Gerburgis Feld, Dagmar Henze, Claudia Jannsen (ed.): How we became what we are. Conversations with first-generation feminist theologians. Gütersloher Verlag, Gütersloh 1998, ISBN 3-57900548-0 , pp. 90-98.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Marlies Flesch-Thebesius: First director of studies and initiator of community counseling in the EKHN, Eva Renate Schmidt. In: Helga Engler-Heidle, Marlies Flesch-Thebesius (ed.): Women in the gown. A piece of Frankfurt church history . Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3922179290 , p. 148.
  2. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/frauenbewegung-in-der-ekhn/frauen-der-bewegung/eva-renate-schmidt.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  3. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/frauenbewegung-in-der-ekhn/frauen-der-bewegung/eva-renate-schmidt.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  4. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/frauenbewegung-in-der-ekhn/frauen-der-bewegung/eva-renate-schmidt.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  5. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/frauenbewegung-in-der-ekhn/frauen-der-bewegung/eva-renate-schmidt.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  6. ↑ Cf. Eva Renate Schmidt, Mieke Korenhof, Renate Jost (eds.): Read feminist . Vol. 1. Stuttgart (Kreuz-Verlag) 1988, ISBN 3783109094 , p. 9.
  7. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/frauenbewegung-in-der-ekhn/frauen-der-bewegung/eva-renate-schmidt.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  8. ↑ Cf. Marlies Flesch-Thebesius: First director of studies and initiator of community counseling in the EKHN, Eva Renate Schmidt. In: Helga Engler-Heidle, Marlies Flesch-Thebesius (ed.): Women in the gown. A piece of Frankfurt church history , Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3922179290 , p. 151.
  9. ↑ From the magazine Im Talks , No. 6/7 1986, printed in: Marlies Flesch-Thebesius: First study leader and initiator of the community counseling in the EKHN, Eva Renate Schmidt . In: Helga Engler-Heidle, Marlies Flesch-Thebesius (ed.): Women in the gown. A piece of Frankfurt church history . Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3922179290 , p. 153.
  10. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/aktuell/detailmagazin/news/pionierin-der-gemeindeberatung-hat-geburtstag.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  11. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/frauenbewegung-in-der-ekhn/frauen-der-bewegung/eva-renate-schmidt.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  12. ↑ See ibid.
  13. ↑ See Eva Renate Schmidt, Hans Georg Berg: Advising with contact. Handbook for community and organizational counseling . Gelnhausen-Offenbach-Berlin (Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag) 1995, ISBN 9783837048865 , pp. 3-5.
  14. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/aktuell/detailmagazin/news/pionierin-der-gemeindeberatung-hat-geburtstag.html (as of May 13, 2019).
  15. ↑ See ibid.
  16. ↑ See www.ekhn.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/frauenbewegung-in-der-ekhn/frauen-der-bewegung/eva-renate-schmidt.html (as of May 13, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Eva Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant feminist theologian and organizational consultant
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe