Hans-Joachim Beeskow

Hans-Joachim Beeskow (born September 22, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German Protestant theologian and church and art historian .

Live and act

Hans-Joachim Beeskow grew up in Berlin and graduated from high school here in 1965. He then studied Protestant theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated in 1970 with the First Theological Examination . From 1971 he worked at the Märkisches Museum Berlin, where he was deputy director from 1973 to 1982. In June 1982 he moved to the post of director of the Wittenberg Luther Hall (now the Luther House ), the largest museum of Reformation history in the world. He was in charge of the Luther House until 1987. Besides his doctorate he in 1985 with a thesis on church history at Berlin's Humboldt University for the Faculty of Theology Doctor of Theology . In 1986 he was accepted into the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR , Art History Section. From 1987 to the turn of 1989, he worked as a freelance science writer and art historian. After the fall of the Wall he stayed in the USA for lectures and lectures and after his return he became a lecturer in church history and source studies for Christian iconography at a Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, later a lecturer and religion teacher at the Evangelical School for Curative Education and Curative Education "Janusz Korczak" Samaritan institutions in Fürstenwalde / Spree as well as at the Protestant grammar school "Zum Grauen Kloster" in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He lives in the Ore Mountains and has been retired since October 2009. Beeskow was and is a guest in many parishes to preach and give lectures.

Every year, Hans-Joachim Beeskow (with his texts and photos) publishes the original Berlin Thurneysser calendar in Leonhard Thurneysser Verlag, Berlin and Basel, on a wide variety of topics. Beeskow wrote numerous studies on the 16th and 17th centuries in newspapers, magazines and edited volumes (selection bibliography follows). He wrote many articles (on church and art history topics) for radio stations and held courses at adult education centers and at the Berlin Seniors University.

Publications

Beeskow published works on the Berlin-Brandenburg church, art and cultural history, including:

• At the side of the young working class. Stud. Theol. et phil. Edmund Monecke . A contribution to the 125th anniversary of the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1848 (= notebooks from Burgscheidungen, No. 187). Union Verlag , Berlin 1973
• as editor with Herbert Hampe and Erik Hühns and co-author: The Märkisches Museum and its collections. Ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the cultural and historical museum of the capital of the German Democratic Republic in 1974. Märkisches Museum, Berlin 1974
• as editor with Herbert Hampe and co-author: Yearbook of the Märkisches Museum. Years 1–5, Berlin 1975–1979
• Co-author: Catalog of the exhibition Martin Luther 1483 to 1546 in the State Luther Hall in Wittenberg. State Luther Hall, Wittenberg 1984
• Brandenburg church politics and history of the 17th century. A contribution to Paul Gerhardt research. 2 volumes, theological dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin 1985
• Guide through the Paul-Gerhard-Church in Lübben. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 1996; 2nd Edition. 2001
• Guide through the Protestant churches in the Lübben church district. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 1998, ISBN 3-929600-14-5
• Guide through the Protestant churches of the Barnim parish. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 1999, ISBN 3-929600-16-1
• Guide through the Protestant churches in the Falkensee parish. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2001, ISBN 3-929600-20-X
• Guide through the St. Thomas Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2002, ISBN 3-929600-24-2
• Guide through the Protestant churches of the An Oder and Spree parish. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2002, ISBN 3-929600-25-0
• Guide through the Evangelical Pentecostal Church in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2002, ISBN 3-929600-26-9
• Guide through the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Malchow. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2004, ISBN 3-929600-29-3
• Guide through the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Buch. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2005, ISBN 3-929600-31-5
• Guide through the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Karow. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2005, ISBN 3-929600-32-3
• “He wrote - in someone else's place, who never wrote. Ask him further. ”Comments on the life and work of Kurt Ihlenfeld . In: German authors of the east as opponents of National Socialism - contributions to the problem of resistance. Edited by Frank-Lothar Kroll, (= literary landscapes, volume 3), Duncker & Humblot, ISBN 3-428-10293-2 , Berlin 2000, pp. 403–414 (here [p. 414] also further literature).
• Guide through the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Siebenlehn, Obergruna and Hirschfeld. The parish councils of the Evangelical Lutheran parishes Siebenlehn-Obergruna and Hirschfeld, Siebenlehn 2005, ISBN 3-00-017611-X
• Paul Gerhardt 1607–1676. A text-picture biography. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2006, ISBN 3-929600-30-7 ; English as: Paul Gerhardt 1607–1676. An Illustrated Biography. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2006, ISBN 3-929600-33-1
• as editor and co-author: "On right, good ways". Contributions to the life, work and effects of Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) (= From Berlin-Brandenburgs Geschichte, Volume 6). Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag , Berlin and Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-939176-50-3
• The Evangelical Christ Church in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2007, ISBN 978-3-929600-34-6
• with Friedrich Kleinhempel: Above all - Berlin's first. (= From the history of Berlin-Brandenburg, Volume 10). Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag, Berlin and Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-939176-65-7
• as publisher (with Klaus-Peter Gerhardt , Carl Order and Werner Wünschmann ): Günter Wirth , Kulturprotestantisches in und aus der DDR. Protestant monthly Standpunkt 1973–1990. Ceremony for Günter Wirth's 80th birthday. Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag, Berlin and Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-939176-58-9
• The Evangelical Hochmeisterkirche in Berlin-Halensee. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2010
• The churches in the Evangelical Church District Berlin North-East. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2010
• as publisher together with Hans-Otto Bredendiek: Walter Bredendiek : Church history from 'left and from below'. Studies on the church history of the 19th and 20th centuries from a socio-historical perspective. Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag 2011 ISBN 978-3-939176-83-1
• as publisher: Ludwig Wächter : “God's hand is ready to catch us”. Sermons from five decades. Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag 2011 ISBN 978-3-939176-85-5
• as publisher together with Hans-Otto Bredendiek: Carl Order : New thinking: Reversal to the future. Selected essays, lectures and sermons. Leonhard-Thurneysser-Verlag 2012 ISBN 978-3-939176-83-1
• with Reinhard Dithmar: Georg Büttner and his Brandenburg churches. Self-published 2013.

literature

• From the author's biography. In: Hans-Joachim Beeskow: Paul Gerhardt 1607–1676. A text-picture biography. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2006, ISBN 3-929600-30-7 , p. 138 (with picture, online )