Protestant Academy Baden

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The Evangelical Academy Baden with its conference center "House of the Church - Evangelical Academy Baden" in Bad Herrenalb is an institution of the Evangelical Regional Church in Baden . It was opened on June 25, 1947 as a place for free encounter and open dialogue between different groups and views. At the constitution of the Baden Academy were u. a. the founding director of the first Evangelical Academy in Bad Boll , Württemberg , Eberhard Müller , and the French field bishop Marcel Sturm were involved. The academy is based in Karlsruhe.

history

The first academy event entitled “Days of Reflection and Consolidation” took place in Bad Herrenalb and was aimed at doctors. Regional Bishop Julius Bender wrote to justify this conference: “The lack of clarity and uncertainty about the importance of the Christian faith for all personal and common life has increased in our people over the past centuries. Only in this way was it possible for the rulers of the Third Reich to try to destroy the eternal foundations of our existence the longer, the more consciously, from an initially veiled anti-Christian attitude. "

The first director of the academy was Friedrich Schauer (1891-1958), who had participated in the resistance against the Third Reich as a man from the very beginning in the Michaelsbruderschaft ( Berneuchen movement ) in both Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Norway (he was adjutant to Theodor Steltzer ) . His successor in 1951 was the secretary of the newspaper “ Christ und Welt ”, Hans Schomerus , after a transitional period in which the later regional bishop Hans Heidland was acting director of the academy. From 1967 to 1978 Willi Gegenheimer was also director of the academy as head of industrial and social work. Successor from 1967 to 1987 was Wolfgang Böhme , parallel to that from 1978 to 1989 Gerhardt Langguth . In 1989 Michael Nüchtern became head of the academy, from 1990 to 2000 the management was in charge of a management team (the academy directors were Jan Bathsien , Reinhard Ehmann, Hans Martin Leichle, Ullrich Lochmann, Klaus Nagorni and Michael Nüchtern). From 2000 to 2008 Klaus Nagorni was Executive Director of the Academy, from 2009 to 2015 Siegfried Strobel held this position . In May 2015, Uta Arngard Engelmann became his successor.

In 1977, on the fringes of the academy conference “The role of science in society”, led by Werner Beck , the Öko-Institut Freiburg was founded.

In 1987 the "Society of Friends of Christian Mysticism" was initiated in Bad Herrenalb by Wolfgang Böhme and Josef Sudbrack .

Bad Herrenalber Academy Award

Since 1992 the Friends of the Evangelical Academy Baden e. V. is awarded the Bad Herrenalber Academy Prize endowed with 2000 euros every year. The laureates were the philosopher Jürgen Werner (Frankfurt) in 1992 , the theologian Urs Baumann (Tübingen) in 1993 , the theologian Hermann Timm (Munich) in 1994 , the sociologist of religion Michael Ebertz (Freiburg) in 1995 , the literary scholar Günter Scholdt (Saarbrücken) in 1996 , and the political scientist in 1997 Ingrid Schneider (Hamburg), 1998 the historian Bernd Martin (Freiburg), 1999 the social work scientist Konrad Maier (Freiburg), 2000 the tourism researcher Christoph Henning (Corniglia / Italy), 2001 the theologian Peter Bubmann (Erlangen), 2002 the physicist Peter Henning ( Karlsruhe), 2003 the theologian Irmtraud Fischer (Bonn), 2005 the literary scholar Alexander Kissler (Munich), 2006 the theologian Manfred Oeming (Heidelberg), 2007 the sociologist Albrecht Göschel (Berlin), 2008 the historian Andreas Kossert (Berlin), 2009 the Theologian Dirk Evers (Tübingen), 2010 the social ethicist Hartmut Kreß (Bonn), 2011 the physicist Barbara Drossel (Darmstadt), 2012 the literary scholarship ftlerin Claudia Stockinger (Göttingen), 2013 the psychiatrist and philosopher Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg), 2014 the theologian Peter Zimmerling (Leipzig), 2015 the lawyer and politician Konstantin von Notz (Mölln) and in 2016 the palliative medicine specialist and theologian Gerhild Becker (Freiburg ). In 2017, on the occasion of 70 years of the Evangelical Academy Baden, the prize was not awarded to a single person, but rather to an idea. The work of the Evangelical Academies in Germany for "sustainable and innovative democracy promotion" was honored. In 2018 the economist Niko Paech (Siegen) received the award.

Working method and goal

The Evangelical Academy Baden has the task of perceiving and reflecting on current cultural, political, scientific, economic and religious developments in society and, against the background of the Gospel, to contribute to orientation and opinion-forming in society. It does this with a wide variety of events, including a. Conferences, workshops and seminars. Subject areas of the academy and the individual course directors are currently: society, politics and law (Arngard Uta Engelmann), science, culture, new media, religion in dialogue, world views (Gernot Meier), spirituality, spiritual life, lifestyle (Susanne Schneider-Riede ), Economy and the world of work ( Dieter Heidtmann ), rural areas and agriculture (Hermann Witter) and youth political education (Claudia Rauch).

Various regional church assignments from the Evangelical Regional Church in Baden have been associated with the Academy's directorates since 1990:

Publication series

Selected events were documented in book series and magazines as early as 1947, including the series of lectures by the Evangelical Academy in Baden , Herrenalber Hefte and the magazines Der Horizont und Discussions . The publication series “Herrenalber Forum” and “Herrenalber Protocols” are currently appearing, some of them also as e-books.

Association

The Evangelical Academy Baden is a member of the Evangelical Academies in Germany eV (EAD) and part of Oikosnet Europe.

Publications

  • Literature by and about Evangelical Academy Baden in the catalog of the German National Library .
  • Evangelical Academy Baden (ed.): Whoever speaks, loves. 50 years of the Evangelical Academy Baden . Karlsruhe 1997, ISBN 3-89674-500-X .
  • Franz Grubauer, Wolfgang Lenz (Ed.): Protestant - Cosmopolitan - Disputeable. Fifteen time signals on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Evangelical Academies in Germany . Bad Boll 1999.
  • 60 years of the Evangelical Academy Baden. The return of religion . epd documentation 29, Frankfurt 2007.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excellent: Evangelical Academies in Germany. Evangelical Academy Baden, September 22, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2018 .