Heiko Bräuning

Heiko Bräuning (born November 7, 1969 in Göppingen ) is a German Protestant pastor, freelance radio journalist , musician , presenter and author .

Singer Heiko Bräuning

Live and act

Bräuning completed a five-year theology course in Tübingen . He completed his vicariate in Bad Liebenzell , after which he worked as a parish administrator in Wilhelmsdorf . Since 2003 he has been working for the Diakoniewerk Die Zieglerschen and most recently held a pastoral position for school pastoral care with half a position in Aulendorf. On July 31, 2017, he resigned from the parish service of the Württemberg regional church .

He received his journalistic training at the Evangelisches Medienhaus , SWR and Bayerischer Rundfunk . From 2005 to 2007 he was trained as a Master of Arts in Diaconic Management at the Diaconal Competence Center of the Bethel Church University in Bielefeld.

Bräuning has been active in radio and television since 1992. He is on the road to concerts and song sermons throughout Germany with the “Pastor Pop Piano” project.

With his music sermons project, he is nationwide as a guest at various congregations at various events. He is supported by his team of musicians, Michael Gundlach on the piano and Matthias Mäder as another singer and guitarist.

In 1999 he initiated the nationwide first internet church service "Skyline". In 2004 he started the youth welfare festival, which the Zieglerschen Anstalten organize once a year in Wilhelmsdorf. As part of this festival, at which young people are to be won over to the concerns of diakonia, the Youth Diaconia Prize endowed with 2000 euros is also awarded. In 2009 he started the weekly TV service "Hour of the Highest", which is broadcast on Bibel TV , has over 400,000 viewers per week, is the only TV service that is interpreted into German sign language and in 2018 received the "Aloys Henhöfer Prize" . He also gives biblical impulses in the weekly program “Fokus Jerusalem” broadcast on Bibel TV.

Television priest

Bräuning is married and has four children.

Honorary positions

From 2007 to 2019 he was a member of the Württemberg regional synod .

As an evangelist and speaker, he works for “Church on the Go” and the German Tent Mission and as a freelance journalist and presenter for various radio and television stations. He is involved in the advisory board of invitare , a foundation for mother and child, and works in the Ev. Brüdergemeinde Wilhelmsdorf and as leisure and travel guides for various church travel providers. In addition, for years he acted as the moderator for the German broadcast of the US television service Hour of Power .

Prizes and awards

• As a radio journalist, he has received the Baden-Württemberg Media Prize three times . (1998, 2000, 2001)
• As a musician, he was awarded the Songpoeten Prize by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and the Hanns Seidel Foundation in 2000.

Moderator Heiko Bräuning

Publications

• Learning to pray again , Hänssler Verlag , Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7751-2674-8 .
• Heaven on earth. Songs for church and worship. Media combination, consisting of CD, book and sheet music, cap-music , Altensteig 2001, ISBN 978-3-9807046-7-0 (book), ISBN 978-3-9807046-9-4 . (Music book)
• Telephone stories with teens , Hänssler Verlag, Holzgerlingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-7751-4559-6 .
• What happened along the way - stories of hope on the path of life . cap-books, Beihingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86773-196-6 .
• I want to console you - Hopeful and Consoling cap-books, Beihingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86773-253-6 .
• Lord I call to you Prayers for every day . cap-books, Beihingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86773-254-3 .
• My deadline experiment: From fictitious dying to a happier life , cap-books, Beihingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86773-283-3 .
• Hope stories. 22 true life reports , cap-books, Beihingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-86773-295-6 .

as a co-author

• with Jörg Knoblauch : service à la carte. Why we need target group-oriented church services , Projektion J Verlag , Asslar 1999, ISBN 978-3-89490-246-9 .
• with Jörg Kratzat: 60 x survival aid. Answers to burning questions , Gerth Medien , Asslar 2006, ISBN 978-3-86591-132-2 .
• with Reinhard Börner a. Immanuel Heims: Shalom over Israel! Search for traces in the Holy Land; Impressions, impulses and encounters (with Israel DVD), cap-books, Haiterbach-Beihingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86773-201-7 .

Audio

year	title	Artist	publishing company	annotation
1997	On the road again	String wind	Hänssler Music	Heiko Bräuning and Reinhard Börner
2000	Hand on heart	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music	Special guest: Andrea Adams-Frey
2002	Close	String wind	cap! music	Heiko Bräuning and Reinhard Börner
2009	Two miles	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music
2012	Signs of life: songs for every day	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music
2012	Go confidently on your way	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music
2012	God is present	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music
2012	Martin Luther - The Musical	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music	Children's and family musical
2013	O you happy - the story of a song	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music	Radio play with Andreas Claus
2016	Gallery of life	Heiko Bräuning	cap! music

Web links

• Literature by and about Heiko Bräuning in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Heiko Bräuning  in the German Digital Library
• Musikpredigt.de
• Ziegler's institutions
• Youth Deaconry Festival

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is really important in life , idea.de, article from July 31, 2017.
2. ↑ Heiko Bräuning: Vita , elk-wue.de, accessed on January 18, 2016.
3. ↑ Since 2009 Hour of the Most High , bibeltv.de
4. ↑ Aloys Henhöfer Prize: Award for the TV service “Hour of the Highest” , idea.de, message from May 28, 2018.
5. ↑ Bible TV - Hour of Power ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
6. ↑ LFK media prizes awarded to private broadcasters , exwelle.de, accessed on January 18, 2016.