Helmut A. Müller

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Helmut A. Müller (born January 9, 1949 in Nordheim ) is a Protestant pastor and exhibition organizer. From 1987 to 2014 he was the director of the Protestant Education Center Hospitalhof Stuttgart .

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1967, Helmut A. Müller studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Mainz from 1968 to 1973, as well as philosophy, psychology and sociology. During his activity as a pastor at the collegiate church in Backnang , he curated the first exhibitions from 1978 and set up a discussion group in the Rems-Murr district for the encounter between art and church. In 1987, Müller moved to the Hospital Church in Stuttgart as a pastor and, at the same time, took over the management of the Protestant education center Hospitalhof Stuttgart.

Since 1987 Helmut A. Müller has organized five exhibitions a year in the Hospitalhof and in the Hospital Church in Stuttgart. The nationwide art and church initiative he launched led to the founding of the international society for contemporary art and church in 1992, of which he was the founding president and president until 2012. In addition, between 1996 and 2012, Müller was the editor in charge of the communications of the Society for Contemporary Art and the Artheon Church .

During the entire time, Helmut A. Müller was often involved as a member of various committees for “Church and Culture” and, as an author and editor, published numerous books, including on contemporary art and cross-border issues of faith and science.

He retired at the end of February 2014. Since then he has lived in Nordheim near Heilbronn and shows in the "Nordheimer Scheune" three exhibitions a year, particularly advanced young art. He also publishes reviews on the reviews page of his homepage; Regular book reviews of new publications from the fields of art, culture, religion, psychology and health, among others.

On March 29, 2019, Müller was awarded the Brenz Silver Medal for his services in the dialogue between church and art. Prelate Gabriele Arnold, chairwoman of the regional church foundation Church and Art, handed it over to Müller on behalf of the regional bishop.

Honor

  • 1992: Winner of the Atlantis Art Prize
  • 2019: Silver Brenz Medal of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg "For the conversation between art and church"

Memberships

  • 1993–2005 member of the working committee of the Protestant Church Building Congress
  • since 1993 member of the advisory board of the Association for Church and Art in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
  • 1994–2009 member of the culture committee of the city of Stuttgart
  • 1994–1999 member of the “Culture” working committee of the German Evangelical Church Congress
  • 2001 initiator of the Foundation Hospitalhof Stuttgart and member of the board and advisory board of the foundation
  • 2009–2014 member of the cultural council of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
  • since 2010 member of the Board of Trustees of the Erich Fromm Prize

Publications

  • Science and Faith. Scientists and humanities scholars looking for a new understanding of people and technology, God and the world . Scherz, Bern, Munich & Vienna 1988.
  • The present of the future. Well-known scientists from all directions show perspectives for life in the next decades . Scherz, Bern, Munich & Vienna 1991, ISBN 3502174458 .
  • (as ed.) Cosmology. Questions about evolution and eschatology of the world (= religion, theology and natural science 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3525569734
  • Jonathan Meese and Helmut A. Müller in Sankt Maria Pfarr , Hospitalhof Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3934320287
  • (as ed.) Evolution: Where from and where. Answers from religion, natural sciences and humanities (= religion, theology and natural science 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 352556984X .
  • How certain is our knowledge? Is it all just a fashion of the time? Frank & Timme; 2012, ISBN 386596429X
  • Philipp Haager, Phasis . Edition Hospitalhof Stuttgart 2011. Ed .: Helmut A. Müller. Texts: Frank Thorsten Moll, Helmut A. Müller. ISBN 978-3-86828-154-5
  • Wanted: Spiritual experience spaces for art and religion. 25 years of contemporary art in the Hospitalhof and in the Hospital Church Stuttgart . Edition Hospitalhof Stuttgart 2012. ISBN 978-3-934320-49-9 .

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