Fritz Tanner

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Fritz Tanner (born June 20, 1923 in Maienfeld , † December 18, 1996 in Chur ) was a Swiss theologian , psychotherapist and writer .

Life

Fritz Tanner went blind in an accident at the age of 13. Nevertheless, he managed to successfully complete high school and his studies in Protestant theology at the universities of Zurich , Basel and Montpellier using only concentration and memory training. He received his doctorate as Dr. theol. with a work on marriage in pietism , which was considered a pioneering work as it advanced into a new area of ​​research in pietism . He also succeeded in naming "the striking diversity of marriage plans in the various pietistic currents".

He then did a second degree in psychology and literature. In 1949 he married; the marriage has two sons.

From 1952 he ran an independent marriage counseling and psychotherapy practice in Zurich for decades. He was also a columnist, seminar leader, speaker and book author. For years he also worked as a freelancer for radio and television.

From 1967 to 1974 he was a member of the National Council for the Zürcher Landesring . As such, he campaigned, for example, for the introduction of women's voting rights and suffrage .

He thought of his eight guide dogs with the book In the Sign of the Dog .

reception

In treating the person Johanna Eleonora Petersen in his work The Marriage in Pietism from today's point of view in association with other colleagues, however, he went so far as to belittle her role in relation to her husband because she would have ventured too far.

Works

  • Marriage in Pietism . Diss. Theol. Zwingli, Zurich 1952
  • About love, engagement and marriage . Reinhardt, Basel 1959
  • The knot in the handkerchief. Instructions for concentration and memory training . Reinhardt, Basel 1961
  • Little fear of big animals . Reinhardt, Basel 1963
  • Modern marriage - attachment and freedom. From the consultant's practice . Reinhardt, Basel 1972, ISBN 3-497-00675-0
  • Education today for tomorrow's society . Reinhardt, Basel 1973, ISBN 3-497-00709-9
  • The pleasure in the unconscious. Questions and answers about couch therapy . Huber, Frauenfeld 1976, ISBN 3-7193-0512-0
  • Until murder do you part. A therapist for the fateful continuation of broken marriages . Walter, Olten 1981, ISBN 3-530-87020-X
  • My seven thousand women. Ignorance - prejudice - encounter. Report from a therapist . Walter, Olten 1982, ISBN 3-530-87021-8
  • Bhagwan. Crook, juggler, god? Panorama, Altstätten 1986, ISBN 3-907506-06-5
  • Jealousy and love . Causa, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-907506-49-9
  • No straw in my head. A guide to improving concentration, memory and developing creativity . Causa, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-907506-47-2
  • Eros and Religion. Sexuality and spirituality . With a foreword by Herbert Haag . Panorama, Altstätten 1988, ISBN 3-907506-10-3
  • Under the sign of the dog. Eight dog lives in the life of a blind man . Edition Erpf, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-905517-46-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Lehmann, Ruth Albrecht: History of Pietism. Vol 4, World of Faith and Worlds of Life. Beliefs and lifeworlds . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Gleixner: Pietism and bourgeoisie. A historical anthropology of piety. Württemberg 17-19 Century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, p. 210.
  3. ↑ Compare the corresponding parallels in: Stefan Gorißen: From trading house to company. Social history of the Harkort company in the age of proto-industry 1720–1820. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, p. 150.
  4. ↑ Ruth Albrecht: Johanna Eleonora Petersen: theological writer of early Pietism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian, psychotherapist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Maienfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1996
Place of death Chur