Helmut Zwanger
Helmut Zwanger (* 1942 ) is a German Protestant pastor and writer .
Life
Helmut Zwanger studied Protestant theology from 1964 to 1970 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen . In Tübingen he was a research assistant at Hartmut Gese's chair from 1970 to 1972 and at Eberhard Jüngel's chair from 1972 to 1973 . From 1973 to 1976 Zwanger was a tutor at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . In 1974 he entered the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen with the dissertation “Sage and Mythos in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics . A contribution to the understanding Barth shear hermeneutics " doctorate . After his second theological examination in 1975, he took up the parish ministry at the Martinskirche (Sindelfingen) in 1976 and was also chairman of the Sindelfingen family education center during this time . From 1989 until his retirement in 2005, Zwanger then worked as a managing pastor at the Martinskirche in Tübingen and at the same time as a training pastor.
Act
His work is primarily characterized by his commitment in the area of church asylum and Judeo-Christian dialogue . A study stay at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem in 1994 was an important building block for his Israel trilogy (1994/1998/2000), the first major work as a poet and writer. Other important works are “God in a poem. An anthology on German-language poetry from 1945 to today ”(2007) and“ Albrecht Goes . Friend of Martin Buber and Judaism ”(2008).
Works
As an author:
- Legend and myth in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics. A contribution to understanding Barth's hermeneutics. 1974 ( Dissertation , University of Tübingen, 1974).
- Israel, O Israel. Poems. Aachen 1994, ISBN 3-89514-012-0 .
- Light and simple - when? Poems. Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-89514-144-5 .
- Word. Where are you? Poems. Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-931402-62-2 .
- Morning light. Poems. Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-937667-63-6 .
- Albrecht Goes. Friend of Martin Buber and Judaism. A homage. Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-940086-15-0 .
- Tübingen Israel trilogy. Poems 1980–2012. Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86351-049-7 .
As editor:
- God in the poem. An anthology on German-language poetry from 1945 to the present day. Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-940086-03-7 .
- with Karl-Josef Kuschel : God's poems. A reader on German poetry after 1945. Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86351-006-0 .
- with Henriette Herwig: For reasons of age. Poems from eight centuries. Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86351-089-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut Zwanger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helmut Zwanger. Lyrics
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zwanger, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Protestant pastor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |