Hartmut Sierig

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Hartmut Ernst Heinz Herbert Sierig (born July 27, 1925 in Kassel ; † November 21, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German theater scholar and theologian . From 1960 to 1968 he was senior pastor at the Church of St. Katharinen in Hamburg.

Life

After the Second World War, from which he returned seriously wounded, he worked from 1945 to 1948 as assistant director and dramaturge. He initially studied philosophy, German literature and theater studies at the University of Hamburg , but then switched to Protestant theology. He completed this course in 1954 and was given the opportunity to do his vicariate with Heinz Zahrnt in the German General Sunday Gazette.

St. Katharinen: Sierig was the main pastor here

After his ordination on March 25, 1956, he became a student pastor and editor of the church newspaper Die Kirche in Hamburg ; However, soon after the accidental death of the main pastor and Bishop Volkmar Herntrich in September 1958, he received a regional church service assignment for St. Katharinen.

In January 1960, Sierig was elected as the youngest of the candidates for the chief pastor of St. Katharinen. In the same year he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. From 1962 he was also director of studies for the Hamburg vicar training. From October 1967 until his untimely death, in addition to his main pastor, he was senior at the spiritual ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state and thus deputy to the regional bishop . At the beginning of September 1968 he became seriously ill and died on November 21, at the age of only 43, of a cerebral haemorrhage . People who knew Sierig reported that he felt like an artist in everything.

Hartmut Sierig's grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery (AA7 (334)), part of the estate is kept in the Hamburg church district archive.

Since 1948 he was with the physician Erika, geb. Waiter married; the couple had a daughter and a son. After Sierig's death, his widow became involved in the church council of St. Katharinen and was elected to the senior elders' college in 1985 .

plant

A number of theological and theater studies textbooks originate from Sierig, whereby the boundaries often blurred: Sierig had made it his life's work to regain the cross-fertilization of stage and pulpit, which has only occurred to a limited extent in Hamburg since Johann Melchior Goeze . Sierig was well known in Hamburg, above all, as a preacher who stepped onto St. Catherine's pulpit as if on a stage . He also gave lectures on the roots of Christian faith and spiritual awareness, which were widely disseminated on phonograms. He interpreted Lessing's parable of the ring to the effect that it is not important to be a Christian, but rather “in God man”.

Fonts

Grave slab in the Ohlsdorf cemetery
  • Return to the Origin: Theological Problems in Contemporary Drama. Hamburg, Ev.-theol. Faculty, Diss. May 12, 1960
  • Across the nasty ditch: the 3rd viewpoint in the floor plan. Agency of the Rauhen Haus, Hamburg 1967
  • The big change: Reimarus - Lessing - Goeze. In: Hermann Samuel Reimarus : Preface to the protective script for the reasonable admirers of God. Facsimile of the manuscript, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967 (published by the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences)
  • Fools and Dancers of the Dead: A Theological Interpretation of Modern Drama. Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1968
  • Don Quixote and the Son of Man: Sermons. Selected u. ed. by Wolfgang Runkel, Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1970

editor

  • Man and son of man. Festschrift for Bishop Prof. D. Karl Witte . On behalf of the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg State and in cooperation with the College of Senior Pastors, ed. by Hartmut Sierig. With a recording by Gisela Floto. Wittig, Hamburg 1963

literature

  • Hans-Volker Herntrich: Faith belongs to me like love. A requiem for Hartmut Sierig. In: Luther 3 (1970), pp. 131-149
  • Peter Stolt: Liberal Protestantism in Hamburg - in the mirror of the main church St. Katharinen. Hamburg: Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte 2006 (works on the church history of Hamburg 25) ISBN 3-935413-11-4 , pp. 311–314, 324, 337f (life data)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolt (lit.), p. 313
  2. ↑ Stolt (lit.), p. 312
predecessor Office successor
Volkmar Herntrich Senior Pastor at St. Katharinen in Hamburg
1960 - 1968 		Klaus Reblin
personal data
SURNAME Sierig, Hartmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sierig, Hartmut Ernst Heinz Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1968
Place of death Hamburg