Georg Maria Roers

Georg Maria Roers SJ (* 1965 in Rees ) is a German Catholic theologian and priest as well as a poet .

Life

Roers acquired at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , where u. a. Franz Joseph van der Grinten was his teacher, graduated from high school and then entered the Jesuit order . He studied Catholic theology , philosophy , German and art studies in Munich , Frankfurt am Main , Berlin and Linz . The subjects religious philosophy and art interpretation were the focus. He completed his theology studies with Friedhelm Mennekes with a thesis on the aesthetics of the sacred ; With another work on the aesthetic as ontological experience , he finished his studies of philosophy with Jörg Splett .

In 1998 Roers was ordained a priest in the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt am Main and then worked in Vienna . He completed his training as a Jesuit in California . Since 1998 he has been editor of the journal for Christian spirituality Geist und Leben , after which he was on the advisory board of this journal. In 2002 , Friedrich Cardinal Wetter appointed Roers as the pastor of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and in 2004 as the church rector of the Munich Asam Church (St. Johann Nepomuk); He was entrusted with these tasks until July 2011. In 2012 he was the head of Catholic Faith Information in Hamburg. Since October 2013 Roers has been the Archbishopric of the Archdiocese of Berlin for the fields of art and culture and since April 2015 artist chaplain of the Archdiocese of Berlin. He was also temporarily a member of the board of trustees and theological advisor of the magazine Theo. The Catholic magazine .

Roers has been active in mediating between art and the Catholic Church since his training and studies . For example, he had artists exhibited in Munich churches: 2004 Things to Come by Christopher Winter in the Basilica of St. Boniface and Light, a sign of faith by Philipp von Schönborn in the Asamkirche, 2006 escape sign by Christopher Lewis, again in the Boniface basilica, and room reflections from Bernd Michael Nestler in the Asam Church.

In addition, Roers has also emerged as a poet through five volumes of poetry .

Works

Lyric:

• Poems 1985–1990. With a prologue by Bernhard Wißmann and thirty vignettes as well as an epilogue by Gerhard Vincent van der Grinten . Gaesdonck: Gaesdoncker Presse 1990.
• Sanskrit. Poems. Tübingen: UVT 1992. ISBN 3-924898-08-1 .
• It was snow yesterday. Munich: Kronenbitter 2000. ISBN 3-930580-04-7 .
• Image noise. Poems. Afterword by SAID . Munich: Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund 2008. (= literary brochure. 13.) ISBN 978-3-939905-26-4 .
• Where did we get to? Poems. Afterword by Anton G. Leitner . Drawings by Christopher Winter . Munich: Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund 2011. (= literary brochure. 20.) ISBN 978-3-939905-97-4 .

About art:

• as editor: Wolfgang Z. Keller: Pater noster. Munich, New York and Düsseldorf: Kronenbitter 2003. ISBN 3-930580-05-5 .
• as editor: The Unequal Brothers. Artists' speeches and sermons on Ash Wednesday from 1986 to 2004. Munich: St. Michaelsbund 2005. ISBN 3-920821-71-8 . (See also Ash Wednesday of the Artists .)
• as editor: Now - the time is gone. Work by Sybille Loew 2002–2007. Documentation of the exhibition now from February 6th-2nd March 2008 in the former Carmelite Church, Munich. Hamburg: Hyperzine-Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-938218-24-2 .
• as editor: In the house of the blind. Artist speeches for Ash Wednesday from 2004 to 2010. Munich: St. Michaelsbund 2010. ISBN 978-3-939905-62-2 . ( With speeches and conversations with Jutta Speidel , Stefan Hunstein , Klaus Schultz , Christiane Lange , Wolfgang Frühwald , SAID , Hans Maier , Benedikt XVI. And Reinhard Marx . )
• besides numerous essays and articles.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Maria Roers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official web presence on the website of the Archdiocese of Berlin
• Texts by Roers in theo. Catholic magazine .
• Father Georg Maria Roers SJ. Artist chaplain to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. In conversation with Dr. Sabine Rauh . In: BR-alpha-Forum , August 5, 2010.
• Elisabeth Hanf: A good friend of artists . Article about Roers in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 24, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Church Official Gazette Archdiocese of Hamburg 2012, Volume 18, pp. 105 and 162
2. ^ Stefan Förner: Inauguration of the new artist pastor Pater Roers. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Berlin, April 7, 2015, archived from the original ; accessed on March 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Imprint. In: Theo. February 15, 2015, archived from the original ; accessed on March 11, 2019 .