Fritz Baltruweit
Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz) Baltruweit (born July 28, 1955 in Gifhorn ) is an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and songwriter .
Life
Baltruweit studied Protestant theology and from February 1984 was pastor at the Stephanus parish in Garbsen-Berenbostel . In 1992 he became director of studies at the Loccum seminary . Between 1998 and 2001 he worked in the Christ Pavilion on the Messe / Expo site in Hanover, where he was responsible for the program. Since 2001 he has been working in the department for projects and public relations in what is now the House of Church Services of the Hanoverian regional church and since 2004 as a speaker in the Evangelical Center for Worship and Church Music of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Hanover's Michaeliskloster Hildesheim with a focus on worship. He also works in the health and holiday pastoral care of the regional church. He has been a long-time employee at the German Evangelical Church Congress, where he also partially completed his vicariate. He worked for the Lutheran World Federation and at the World Council of Churches.
Since 1977 he has been making music with his own studio group Baltruweit. He was a member of the ecumenical lyricists and composers group of the Werkgemeinschaft Musik eV and the AG Musik in der Ev. Jugend eV, today the lyricists and composers group TAKT .
Baltruweit composed several hundred New Spiritual Songs . Several of them were included in the Catholic Praise for God , in the Methodist Church's hymn book , in the Evangelical and Mennonite hymn books .
Compositions (selection)
- Where a person gives trust (1977; Text: Hans-Jürgen Netz [1975]; MG 479)
- Do not be afraid ( German Evangelical Church Congress 1981 ; EG 630)
- Friends that the almond branch (1981; text: Schalom Ben-Chorin [1942] after Jeremiah 1,11; EG 659; MG 483)
- God gave us breath so that we could live (1982; Text: Eckart Bücken [1982]; EG 432; MG 463)
- I'll sing you my song (1994; MG 44)
- In the middle of the night (Text: Sybille Fritsch-Oppermann)
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Baltruweit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Fritz Baltruweit in the German Digital Library
- Search for Fritz Baltruweit in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- “Songs from heaven, earth and sea” : multimedia report about Fritz Baltruweit from evangelisch.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Baltruweit. In: Studio group Fritz Baltruweit. Fritz Baltruweit, accessed October 31, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baltruweit, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baltruweit, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gifhorn |