Jürgen Micksch

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Jürgen Micksch (born January 20, 1941 in Breslau ) is a German Protestant theologian and sociologist and initiator of various social and interreligious institutions; in his school days he was a child actor .

Life

After fleeing from Breslau, Jürgen Micksch attended elementary school in Dorfbach in the Passau district and the Luitpold grammar school in Munich . During his school days, he worked as a child and youth actor in numerous theater plays in the Münchner Kammerspiele and in the Residenztheater in Munich , in radio plays on the Bavarian radio and in films. He played the theater in Waiting for Godot with Heinz Rühmann (director: Fritz Kortner ), in the children's film Hansel and Gretel he played Hansel, in the film Angst the son of Ingrid Bergman and in the circus film Der Dunkel Stern the blind artist child Manuel.

In 1960 Jürgen Micksch graduated from Luitpold-Gymnasium in Munich. He then studied philosophy and theology at the universities in Munich , Heidelberg , Tübingen , Berlin and Erlangen . In 1965 he passed the first theological exam and then worked as a vicar in Regensburg . In 1966 he became study inspector in Erlangen and began studying sociology in Erlangen, Nuremberg and Münster . In 1968 he passed the 2nd theological exam and in 1971 he received his doctorate in sociology as Dr. phil. on the subject of "Youth and Leisure in the GDR".

He then worked as a pastor and research assistant in the EKD's external church office in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1974 to 1984 he was a foreigner advisor and senior church councilor in the church external office and later church office of the EKD in Frankfurt am Main. In this role he was u. a. Chairman of the Ecumenical Commission for the Support of Orthodox Priests, KdöR (1980–1994) and Managing Director of the Churches Committee on Foreigners Issues in Europe (1976–1984). He was the initiator and chairman of the nationwide Ecumenical Preparatory Committee for the Week of Foreign Citizens / Intercultural Week and in 1980 formulated the theses “The Federal Republic has become a multicultural society”, which sparked a long-standing controversy.

From 1984 to 1993 he was deputy director of the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing . During this time he founded PRO ASYL and the homeless newspaper BISS . In 1993 he organized and moderated events with the Dalai Lama and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the German Evangelical Church Congress .

In 1993 Jürgen Micksch was appointed intercultural representative of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and held this office until 2001 . At the same time, he had lectureships at the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main .

From 1994 to 2017 he was chairman of the Intercultural Council in Germany and initiated the International Weeks Against Racism , the Abrahamic Forum and the German Islam Forum. Since 2013 he has been managing director of the Abrahamic Forum in Germany and since 2014 managing director of the Foundation for the International Weeks Against Racism .

He is the author of over 350 articles in books, encyclopedias, and magazines as well as the author or editor of over 25 books.

Jürgen Micksch is co-founder or founder of the following institutions:

  • 1972 Conference of Pastors for Foreigners (KAP) of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and chairman until 1984
  • 1974 Ecumenical Preparatory Committee for Foreign Citizens Day / later renamed Intercultural Week . He was chairman from 1974 to 1995.
  • 1976 Islamic-Christian working group on foreigner problems (ICA) at the federal level.
  • 1981 EKD Conference on Islamic Issues
  • 1986 Working Group Pro Asyl and subsequently chairman and chairman of the Pro Asyl development association and the board of trustees of the Pro Asyl Foundation, founded in 2002, until 2012. Since 2012 he has been honorary chairman of the Pro Asyl development association.
  • 1986 Bavarian Refugee Council
  • 1993 First homeless newspaper BISS (Citizens in Social Difficulties) sold nationwide by those affected in Munich
  • 1994 Intercultural Council in Germany and chairman until 2017
  • 1995 Islamic-Christian working group in Hessen
  • 1996 Forum against Racism at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and member of the executive working group until 2007
  • 2001 Abrahamic Forum in Germany and since the moderator, he has been the managing director of the association founded in 2013.
  • 2002 German Islam forum and since then moderator and Islam forum in North Rhine-Westphalia (2003), Hessian Islam forum (2003), forum Muslims in the new states (2004), Islam forum Rhineland-Palatinate (2004), Islam forum Bavaria (2005) and coordination council of the Islam forums in Germany (2006)
  • 2011 Interreligious Conference and Moderator until 2018
  • 2014 Foundation for the International Weeks Against Racism and executive board
  • 2017 Working Group Religions and Nature Conservation and Chairman

Positions

In an interview with the journalist Eren Güvercin in June 2013, Micksch took the view that “in principle the term“ Islamism ”should be avoided. Because this suggests a connection between Islam and violence ”. But Islam wants to be a religion of peace, by which the behavior of Muslims must be measured. In the same interview he also criticized the fact that the Turkish-Islamic organization “ Millî Görüş ” (IGMG) and the “ Muslim Youth in Germany ” (MJD) were still mentioned in reports on the protection of the Constitution - “they are thus presented as a threat. This then justifies their social discrimination. That is anti-Muslim racism ”.

As spokesman for the German Islam Forum , Jürgen Micksch criticized the Evangelical Press Service in April 2015 for the fact that the Muslim Forum Germany, newly founded by Muslims, Alevis and Yazidis, would exclude Muslims who were organized in the major umbrella organizations.

Movies

  • 1952 The white-blue lion , role: Wilhelm von Kleewitz
  • 1954 Hansel and Gretel , role: Hansel
  • 1954 Angst , directed by Roberto Rossellini, role: son of Ingrid Bergman
  • 1954 prisoner of love , role: ten-year-old son Richard
  • 1955 The dark star , role: the blind Manuel
  • 1955 08/15 in the homeland (3rd part) , role: Hitler Youth leader Heini
  • 1955 Squirrel , TV film
  • 1961 Youth without advice , documentary film, leading role

Stage appearances (selection)

  • 1951 The little chimney sweeper , opera, title role
  • 1952 Peter Pan , role: John
  • 1952 Caesar and Cleopatra , role: Ptolemy
  • 1953 Admiral Bobby , role: The Crown Prince of England
  • 1954 Waiting for Godot , director: Fritz Kortner (with Heinz Rühmann)
  • 1955 Opening of the Indian Era , director: Hans Schweikart (with Mario Adorf)
  • 1955 O wilderness , role: Tommy
  • 1955 Der Zauberrubel , opera, leading role
  • 1956 Young Columbus , title role
  • 1956 Heinrich IV. , Director: Fritz Kortner (with Klaus Kinski)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1953 Pustepeter , title role (9 episodes)
  • 1954 Pole Poppenspäler , title role (with Christine Kaufmann)
  • 1956 The band of robbers , role: Winnetou
  • 1957 Wilhelm Tell , role: Tell's son Walter

Fonts

editor

  • Guest workers become citizens. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-87476-103-7 .
  • Coexistence with Muslims. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-87476-147-9 (6 editions and over 200,000 copies).
  • Christians and Muslims in conversation. 1982, (translations in English, French and Swedish).
  • Multicultural coexistence. 1983.
  • Evangelical foreign communities. 1986.
  • Positive or negative? AIDS as fate and opportunity. 1988.
  • Evangelical for a fundamental reason. How the EKD stands out against Islam. Lembeck, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-87476-545-9 .
  • From the Christian Occident to Abrahamic Europe. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-87476-561-9 .
  • Anti-Muslim Racism. Conflicts as an opportunity. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-87476-596-2 .
  • Together on site - communal Islam forums. With Ingrid Hoensch. EB-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-86893-053-1 .
  • Religion and nature conservation - together for biological diversity . With Yasmin Khurshid, Hubert Meisinger, Andreas Mues, BfN-Script 426, Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-89624-162-7 .
  • Anti-Muslim Racism - And What To Do? Brochure, Darmstadt 2016 (4th edition 2018).

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Abrahamic Forum
  2. ↑ Board of the Foundation
  3. ↑ Bernd Kastner: Jürgen Micksch, founder of Pro Asyl: The indomitable optimist. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 8, 2016
  4. Jump start: Foundation for the International Weeks Against Racism started work , migration-online.de, 23 September 2014
  5. ↑ "Micksch: 'In principle, the term' Islamism 'should be avoided'" , in: "Grenzgängerbeatz - Eren Güvercin's writing corner", June 17, 2013
  6. ↑ Experts react cautiously to "Muslim Forum Germany": Waiting for impulses (www.domradio.de (Cologne), accessed on November 23, 2015)
  7. ↑ http://www.proasyl.de/de/presse/detail/news/klausur_der_bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft_pro_asyl/
  8. ^ Heribert Prantl: Jürgen Micksch. The power of good. In other words: What an individual can do. Political history. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Edition Munich 2016, pp. 232–242, ISBN 978-3-86497-352-9
personal data
SURNAME Micksch, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miksch, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw