Evangelical Academy Frankfurt
The Evangelical Academy Frankfurt is an educational institution and a conference center in Frankfurt am Main . As a member of the umbrella organization of the 17 Evangelical Academies in Germany , it offers public events based on the motto “Protestant, cosmopolitan, arguable”. The guests include theologians , politicians , scientists , cultural workers and personalities from Frankfurt's urban society.
history
The Evangelical Academy Frankfurt was created in 2012 through the institutional merger of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain in Arnoldshain and the Evangelical City Academy Römer 9 in Frankfurt. Both houses had previously been operated with their own focus. The theologian Thorsten Latzel has been the director of the academy since 2013 .
Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain
In 1946 the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau founded its own academy based on the model of the Evangelical Academy in Bad Boll . Founding director was Hans Kallenbach , co-founder Ernst zur Nieden . The conference house is named after the first church president Martin Niemöller . The Arnoldshain Last Supper Theses of 1957 and the Arnoldshain Conference made significant contributions to the development of the Evangelical Church in Germany .
Evangelical City Academy Romans 9
The Evangelical City Academy Frankfurt was an institution of the Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt , in which the Evangelical parishes of Frankfurt have come together. It went back to a job for adult education established in the 1970s . The form of educational work developed by her was called the city academy . It had its seat in the Dominican monastery in Frankfurt . In 2006 she moved into the rooms used by the former central theological library in the parish hall of the Pauls Congregation and expanded her cultural and educational offer.
society
The non-profit supporting association of the Evangelical Academy is called Evangelical Academy in Hessen and Nassau e. V. Its two church grants are the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and the Evangelical Regional Association in Frankfurt and Offenbach . According to the statutes, the purpose of the association is to “promote national and vocational education and promote religion”. This goal is pursued with “political, cultural and religious debates based on Protestant belief”. In this way, different perspectives and standpoints should be made to be heard by the regional public. The two governing bodies of the association are called the Great Convention ( General Assembly ) and the Small Convention ( Board of Directors ). There is a special relationship with the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar in the Kassel district .
The independent development association Evangelical Academy in Hesse and Nassau e. V. supports the academy's intercultural , interreligious and interdisciplinary events.
program
The Evangelical Academy's program takes up current social developments and scientific findings, which are reflected on from the perspective of eight different subject areas. The events are organized by a team of study leaders. Many of them serve the interreligious dialogue or give suggestions in the area of political education . Recurring formats are the Economic Policy Forum , the presentation and discussion of the film of the month , the Art Salon kunst_kontrovers , interfaith discussion series Sacred Texts , the prevention Café ,, Barcamps for political education, science Slams with young theologians and medical ethics series order of life and death ... on basic questions of modern medicine. Together with various partners, the house also organizes cooperation events, such as the Open Books reading festival at the Frankfurt Book Fair , Frankfurt reads a book and the Night of the Museums . The ideal scholarship program Junge Akademie Frankfurt is an offer for young adults under 30 years of age. It promotes the development of projects to strengthen democracy.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic , the Evangelical Academy has been using the concept of a digital sofa academy with videos and live streaming instead of face-to-face events.
building
The conference center of the Evangelical Academy is located on Frankfurt's Römerberg in the center of Frankfurt's old town . It is built as a bridge building over the Alte Mainzer Gasse ; its facade forms the south-western end of the Römerberg at the transition to the Fahrtor . The Wertheim House , the Historical Museum and the Old Nikolaikirche are in the immediate vicinity . Since the complete renovation from 2015 to 2017, the building has an eye-catching glass facade. The design by the architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt was awarded the Martin Elsaesser plaque from the Association of German Architects .
The conference center has several large event rooms : the panorama hall under the glass roof, the large hall on the second floor, four seminar rooms on the first floor and a lounge on the ground floor. The premises can be rented for private or commercial purposes.
Before the renovation, the building erected in the mid-1950s served as the parish hall of the evangelical Pauls parish . Until it was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt in 1944 , the classicist Villa Souchay , built by Cornelius Carl Souchay in 1809, was located here .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The association. In: evangelische-akademie.de. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
- ^ Jürgen Telschow: History of the Protestant Church in Frankfurt am Main (= series of publications of the Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main . Volume 42 ). Volume III: From the Post-War Period to the Present. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-922179-56-6 , pp. 230-232 .
- ^ Statutes of the Evangelical Academy in Hesse and Nassau e. V. dated December 1st, 2015 . December 1, 2015, p. 1-2 .
- ↑ Friends' Association. In: evangelische-akademie.de. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Klaus Hofmeister: Resist Populism - Positions of the Catholic Bishops. In: hr-inforadio.de ( Hessischer Rundfunk ). June 30, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Max Knieriemen: Golden apple of knowledge for classification of the Esther story. In: evangelisch.de ( joint work of Protestant journalism ). November 17, 2017, accessed June 11, 2019 .
- ^ Carina Dobra: Young people devote a year to democracy. In: ekhn.de ( Evangelische Sonntags-Zeitung ). January 29, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 .
- ^ Jürgen Prause: New start in the crisis: Evangelical academies are preparing to resume their conferences. In: Evangelical Church in Germany . June 12, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Gernot Gottwals: Evangelical Academy: An eye-catcher on the Römerberg. In: fnp.de ( Frankfurter Neue Presse ). May 18, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2019 .
- ↑ “Martin Elsaesser Badge ” award winner 2018. In: bda-bund.de ( Association of German Architects ). Retrieved June 11, 2019 .