Hallelujah Paul

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Halleluja Paul (bourgeois Paul Kellner ; * 1950 in Nußdorf-Debant ) is an Austrian pastor and musician . He got his nickname and artist name because he used the word " Hallelujah " as a greeting.

Life

Kellner completed an apprenticeship as a grocery retailer, and at the age of 22 he took the job of a driver in an innsbruck railway company. Because he was diagnosed late with color vision deficiency, he retired from the driving service, which is why he began training as an educator in Pfaffenhofen at the age of 27 . After graduating, he first worked in the SOS Children's Village in Nussdorf, then at Lebenshilfe Austria in Innsbruck and finally in a newly opened children's home in Lienz .

Through a friend he came into contact with the Charismatic Movement , which he attended meetings. Here he gathered formative positive impressions. When he found out about the possibility of a university entrance qualification test, he had himself prepared in Horn in 1988/89 for the university entrance qualification, which he finally received. After successful studies he spent his pastoral year at the seminary in Zams that ordination to deacon he received in 1999 by Alois Kothgasser in Lienz, be Diakonatsjahr then he spent in Zirl . Initially, the ordination as a priest stood in the way of Kellner's earlier proximity to the Charismatic Movement, but he was ordained a priest by Kothgasser in 2001, whereupon he first worked as a pastor in Zirl, Schwaz , Amlach and finally in Lavant .

Musical career

Chart positions
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Albums
Time for a song
  AT 32 07/26/2013 (1 week)

Kellner was already musically inclined as a child. In an interview he remembers: “I said, I'm interested in music and old people. I was told: 'Put that out of your head, we're in East Tyrol, learn a profession like everyone else' "His brother, the music producer Toni Kellner, tried for seven years from 2004 to get his musical brother to make a recording . Shortly before, Paul Kellner had been diagnosed with a brain tumor during examinations after a car accident.

In 2011, Kellner released his first single under the stage name Halleluja Paul, Love Your Neighbor Like Yourself , for which he received mostly positive feedback. In 2013, the first album was presented with Zeit für ein Lied . The album published by Telamo reached number 32 in the Austrian album charts. Kellner donates the proceeds from music sales to the Catholic aid organization Church in Need .

Discography

Albums

  • 2013: time for a song

Singles

  • 2011: love your neighbor as yourself
  • 2013: A golden walking stick
  • 2013: Hallelujah - a word from ancient times
  • 2013: blessed are you

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Now comes 'Hallelujah Paul'! in kath.net , July 8, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Mag. Paul Kellner (by Halleluja-Paul), pastor of Maria Lavant. Interview Gerhard Payr, on August 12, 2011
  3. ↑ Parish communication from the Lavant parish , as of September 2014
  4. ^ A b Hallelujah Paul in the Austrian hit parade
  5. ↑ "Hallelujah - I'll sing a song for you". Kleine Zeitung , August 4, 2013, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 .;
personal data
SURNAME Hallelujah Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waiter, Paul (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pastor and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Nussdorf-Debant