Hans Werner Dannowski

City Superintendent i. R. Hans Werner Dannowski on March 11, 2016 during a reception in the Markuskirche in Hanover

Hans Werner Dannowski (born June 22, 1933 in Petershagen near Berlin; † November 28, 2016 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant theologian and author. From 1980 to 1998 he was city superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover and pastor of the Marktkirche .

Career

Hans Werner Dannowski was born to East Prussian parents in Petershagen near Berlin and grew up in Königsberg . After the Second World War , his parents fled with him to Ramelsloh (Seevetal) in the Lüneburg Heath . In 1953 he graduated from high school in Hamburg and began training at the post office. After hearing Hanns Lilje in the closing address at the 1953 Kirchentag , he decided to become a pastor. He studied Protestant theology a . a. in Hamburg and Göttingen and completed his second theological exam in 1962.

In 1963 he took up his first pastorate in the St. Marien parish in Göttingen . From 1969 to 1974 he was director of studies at the preacher's seminary at Imbshausen Castle . In 1974 he became superintendent of the Hannover-Linden parish and pastor of the St. Nikolai parish.

Dannowski and Juliane Ische-Thoms next to Ernst Thom's painting Tower Building (1937) in an exhibition in 2011 in the Kreuzkirche in Hanover

In 1980, Hans Werner Dannowski became city superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover with the chairmanship of the City Church Association, and he became superintendent of the church district Hanover-Mitte and pastor at the Marktkirche . As city superintendent from 1983 to 1995, the Judeo-Christian dialogue with the then regional rabbi Henry Brandt from the regional association of the Jewish communities of Lower Saxony based in Hanover was particularly important to him. Dannowski campaigned for the conversation between church and art and designed the art church services he initiated at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover for 30 years until 2013 . Hans Werner Dannowski was a co-founder of the conference of leading evangelical clergy in large cities and its long-term chairman.

On June 1, 1998, Dannowski retired. He has since remained active as a guest preacher, speaker and author. After arson attacks on Turkish families in the early 1990s, he became a co-initiator of fairy lights against xenophobia in Hanover.

In a film sermon in 1991 he said:

“To know from the beginning, to the end, of your limits and to gain the strength from the struggle to cope with setbacks and defeats: That is difficult for us. But an angel is sitting at our table. "

Other offices

Panel discussion 2013 in the Historisches Museum for the book presentation Jewish personalities in Hanover's history ;
Dannowski (2nd from left) between Rebecca Seidler and Andor Izsák next to Hugo Thielen and Thomas Schwark (in the foreground)

• 1981–1997: Co-founder and for 16 years chairman of the conference of evangelical city superintendents and city deans from major German cities
• 1985–1992: Film Commissioner of the EKD Council
• 1987–2003: President of the international ecumenical film organization Interfilm
• Jury member of the Berlinale
• Long-standing member of the board of trustees of the Hannover Community Foundation

Awards

• 1999: City badge of Hanover
• 2001: Award of the City Culture Prize by the Friends of Hanover
• Honorary President of Interfilm

Works (selection)

• with Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Stories about Hanover's churches. Studies, pictures, documents , Hanover: Lutherhaus-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-87502-145-2 ; contents
• Compendium of Sermon Doctrine . 2 ed. Mohn, Gütersloh 1990, ISBN 3-579-00215-5 .
• (with Oskar Negt ): Königsberg - Kaliningrad. Journey to the city of Kant and Hamann . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 978-3882436136
• Monastery trips. Between Harz and Heide, Weser and Leine , 2nd edition, Hanover: Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-661-2 ; Table of contents and publisher information (as PDF document )
• "Then we go to Hanover". Views and impressions from a city , with eight collages by Siegfried Neuenhausen , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000, ISBN 3-87706-569-4 ; mostly online via Google books
• Hanover - far from near: Out and about in parts of the city , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG publishing house and printing company, 2002, ISBN 978-3877066539 ; Preview over google books
• Out and about in the Calenberger Land. Villages, churches and old manors between Deister and Leine , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2009, ISBN 978-3899936513
• Heaven is laughing: Bach's cantatas in the rhythm of the year , Lutherisches Verlagshaus , 2012, ISBN 978-3785910900

literature

• Insa Becker-Wook, Theodor Bohlen, Oda-Gebbine Holze-Stäblein, Joachim Stever (Red.): Marktkirche 1998. A look back at the farewell to city superintendent Hans Werner Dannowski. Ed .: Ev.-luth. Marktkirchengemeinde and Ev.-luth. Stadtkirchenverband Hannover, Hannover: Department for public relations in the Ev.-luth. City Church Association Hanover, 1998

Web links

Commons : Hans Werner Dannowski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

swell

• Hans Werner Dannowski - Stations of Life , published by the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover, accessed on January 19, 2011 (PDF; 86 kB)
• Detailed list of works at book-info.com , accessed on January 19, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/nachrichten/2016/11/2016_11_28_2
2. ↑ Hans Werner Dannowski gives up chairmanship. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved September 13, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.