Johannes Pinsk

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Johannes Pinsk
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Johannes Pinsk, February 1951

Johannes Pinsk (born February 4, 1891 in Stettin ; † May 21, 1957 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German Roman Catholic priest and university professor.

Life

Johannes Andreas Pinsk was born as the son of August and Anna Pinsk (née Schmidt) in Stettin ( Pomerania ). Both parents were Catholic and had their son baptized on March 8, 1891 in the Roman Catholic parish in Szczecin, where he also attended school.

Education

After studying theology at the University of Breslau from April 1911, he was ordained a priest on June 13, 1915 . His first scientific work on the position of Pope Liberius in the Arian disputes according to the current state of the sources and their criticism was awarded in 1913 by the faculty of the university.

Priests and scientists

After some time as chaplain at St. Henry in Breslau he became in 1916 secretary to Wroclaw Bishop Cardinal Johann Adolf Bertram . In 1918 he returned as a religion teacher and chaplain at the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the pastoral back where in 1919 he also taught St. Anne's School.

During this time he wrote his dissertation on the Missa Sicca under Franz Schubert and received his doctorate in theology in 1923 . In addition, he also authored several theological articles and reviews that were published. As a student chaplain, Pinsk got to know the founder and general secretary of the Catholic Academic Association, Prelate Franz Xaver Münch , and the Abbot of Maria Laach , Ildefons Herwegen .

Berlin time

On April 15, 1928, at the instigation of Prelate Münch, he came to Berlin to succeed Carl Sonnenschein (1876–1929) and took over pastoral care for old academics and students. In 1929 he also became managing director of the Association of Catholic Academics in Berlin. The spiritual and spiritual center of his work became the St. Benedict Chapel in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Pinsk has already prayed and celebrated at a people's altar versus populum , i.e. facing the assembled community, which was quite unusual for the time. In 1935 he was appointed judge of the Ecclesiastical Court ( Iudex prosynodalis ).

His magazines Liturgische Zeitschrift (1928–1933), the creation of which went back to the Archpriest Stanislaus Stephan from Wroclaw , and Liturgisches Leben (1934–1939) were influential for the liturgical movement . The latter he led until the outbreak of World War II, even in self-publishing continues. Some of Johannes Pinsk's writings, in particular “The Church of Christ as Church of the Nations” from 1935, were put on the list of harmful and undesirable literature by the Reich Chamber of Literature . All accessible copies of his works were confiscated by the Secret State Police . In addition to his extensive publication activities with several hundred publications, Pinsk also developed a lively lecture and travel activity. Among other things, he was also a member of the Catholic Academic Association and also wrote for the magazine Abendland .

Mater Dolorosa (Lankwitz)

Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz)

On October 1, 1939, at the request of Konrad Cardinal von Preysing , Pinsk succeeded Pastor Franz Nafe in the Catholic parish of Mater Dolorosa in Berlin-Lankwitz . His services and sermons attracted an increasingly large number of visitors and listeners. He was also particularly committed to the maintenance of Gregorian chant in his community . In 1941 he was appointed consistorial councilor. The parish church, which was destroyed by a bombing on August 23, 1943 , could not be rebuilt with funds from the diocese . Pinsk sold works of art from his private collection and made his publication and lecture fees available for rebuilding the transept of the old church as a place of worship. He held the office of parish priest until 1954, when he renounced the parish at the instigation of Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm and Werner Heltemes became his successor.

University professor

This made it possible for Johannes Pinsk to make his experience and knowledge available to a wider public outside the diocese . Pinsk was unable to accept a call for pastoral theology at the University of Bonn , but in 1950 was given a teaching position at the University of Music in Berlin. Since 1954 he has held a teaching position as honorary professor for Catholic theology at the Free University of Berlin and was a consultant for theological and priest training in the Bishop's Office in Berlin . He was also the theological advisor to the Berlin bishop Wilhelm Weskamm and again worked in Greifswald , where Alfons Maria Wachsmann had invited him before the World War .

Act

In his sermons , Pinsk emphasized that the church had to oppose the National Socialist ideology . He countered the national socialists' harmonization and dehumanization with the pursuit of perfection of the individual personality. As a pastor he helped many people in need. In this way he provided refuge for Jews persecuted during the Nazi dictatorship. Later he took care of the women who had gotten into trouble when the Soviet troops marched in.

liturgy

Pinsk became one of the leading figures of the liturgical movement alongside Romano Guardini . Guardini was initially reluctant to allow himself to be seen in the face at a people's altar like Johannes Pinsk at prayer and the Holy Act, but then “gave in and regretted not having done it earlier”.

As a mystagogue , Pinsk influenced exegesis and the understanding of the liturgy with the magazines he edited “with inexorable severity, rejecting all 'paraliturgical' efforts” . With this he tried to show the “sacramental world” as a Christian's form of existence .

Friendships

In 1936, Romano Guardini and Johannes Pinsk accepted the German astronomer Hermann Brück into the Catholic Church, who was then working at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo . Johannes Pinsk was also friends with the writer Werner Bergengruen , who converted with his wife, the priest Alfons Beil and the musicologist Carl Johann Perl and had a close relationship with the Abbey of Maria Laach and its abbot Ildefons Herwegen . This was also expressed by the fact that he made his profession as Benedictine oblate of the abbey on April 12, 1933 .

He also maintained relationships with the Benedictine nuns - St. Gertrud Abbey ( Alexanderdorf Monastery ) and the Catholic Sisterhood Aquinata in Berlin-Südende . He dedicated his book Mysterium Crucis to the philosopher Peter Wust , the prelate Franz Xaver Münch and the Paderborn cathedral provost Paul Simon . He also regularly invited well-known personalities such as the actor Wolfgang Kühne , the literary scholar Hermann Kunisch or the art historians Walter Loeschke and Hubertus Lossow from the Free University of Berlin as speakers in his community. As an active promoter of ecumenism , the Berlin Una Sancta movement owed him many ideas. He was also on friendly terms with representatives of Orthodoxy , such as Sergius Heitz .

Others

Pinsk preached at the service on the occasion of the Federal Assembly in 1954 , which led to the re-election of Federal President Theodor Heuss . In June 1955, he was seen on the First German Television as a television priest at Sunday's Word .

The second and third alternative stanzas of the hymn Fest should my baptismal covenant always stand do not come from Johannes Pinsk, as stated in the second edition of the Berliner Gotteslob from 1996 (song number 835 - Berlin appendix), but from the Catholic pastoral assistant Johanna Engelmann.

death

Tombstone of Johannes Pinsk in the Sankt-Matthias-Friedhof 52 ° 27 ′ 15 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 42 ″  E

Pinsk died of a heart attack while he was assisting the wedding of Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who later became Federal Minister for the Post and Telecommunications, and his wife Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling in the St. Bernhard Church in Berlin-Dahlem . He was buried four days later in the Sankt-Matthias-Friedhof in Berlin-Tempelhof (Röblingstrasse) in the department Am Klostergarten . On February 19, 1997, he was moved from grave site 5 to 30 and has since been at the same grave site as his predecessor Franz Nafe and his successor Werner Heltemes from the parish of Mater Dolorosa.

Works and writings (selection)

  • The Missa Sicca , Yearbook for Liturgical Studies (4/1924), pp. 90–118
  • Liturgical history from 1500 to 1800 , yearbook for liturgical science, volume 8 (1928)
  • The Unity of the Church , Religious Reflection, I (1928), 45
  • The impact of the Catholic ideal of education in the higher girls' institutions (1928)
  • The Association of Catholic Academics in Berlin in: Heinrich Bachmann (editor), Das Catholic Berlin , Munich (1929), p. 64f
  • The Church of Christ as the Church of the Nations , essay (1935)
  • On the 25th anniversary of the abbot of Maria Laach , Liturgical Life 5 (1938)
  • The Sacramental World (1938)
  • With Carl Johann Perl : The High Mass - Sense and Shape of the High Mass , Salzburg / Leipzig (1938) ThGl 32 (1940) 53f
  • Hope and Glory (1944)
  • Apostolate of the Spirit. The program of the Catholic Association of Academics , Commemorative Speech, Münster (1948), pp. 71–85
  • Crisis of the Faustian - unliterary reflections on Goethe's Faust , Berlin, Oswald Arnold Verlag (1948)
  • Mysterium crucis (1952)
  • Pictures from the life of our Savior (1952)
  • Fundamental and Practical Considerations on Christian Annunciation in the Marian Year (1954)
  • Donum Dei (Christmas 1955)
  • Steps to the Middle (1957)
  • Woman at Work (1959)
  • With Theodor Schnitzler and Ingo Mainka: Thoughts on the men's year (1963)
  • With Otto Karrer: The Power of God's Word (1964)

literature

  • Berliner Petrusblatt dated May 26, 1957
  • Johannes Pinsk died in Berlin on May 21, 1957 ; Seelsorger 27, (1956/57), pp. 414-416.
  • Bernhard Müller-Schoenau: Mater Dolorosa - Church of our time ; Berlin 1962.
  • Martin Buber , Josef Maria Nielen: Encounters , Verlag Josef Knecht, Frankfurt, 1966
  • Johannes Günther: Johannes Pinsk (1891–1957) . In: Wolfgang Knauft (Ed.): Co -builder of the Diocese of Berlin. 50 years of history in character images . Berlin 1979, pp. 209-222.
  • Andrzej-Franciszek Wójcik: Easter Gentlemen's Year. Theology and practice of the church year in the writings of Johannes Pinsk (= European university writings , series 23: Theologie . Vol. 254). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-8204-5675-9 .
  • Lorenz Weinrich (editor): Parish Church and Parish Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz 1912–1987 , Berlin 1987.
  • Eberhard Amon: Life exchange between God and man. On Johannes Pinsk's understanding of liturgy (= studies on pastoral liturgy . Vol. 6). Pustet, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7917-1170-9 .
  • Paul Hiller: Chronicle Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 104.
  • Jerzy Stefanski: Consecratio mundi. Theology of the liturgy with Johannes Pinsk (= Pietas liturgica . Studia 7). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1991, ISBN 3-88096-267-7 . (contains a bibliography by Pinsk)
  • Eberhard Amon: Johannes Pinsk (= Liturgical Yearbook . Volume 43). Münster 1993, pp. 121-127.
  • Michael Höhle (Ed.): 75 years of the Diocese of Berlin - 20 personalities . Verlag FW Cordier, 2005, ISBN 3-929413-92-2 .
  • Andrzej-Franciszek Wójcik: Johannes Pinsk (1891–1957) . In: Archive for Social History , 45 (2005), pp. 165–214.
  • Thomas Thorak: Wilhelm Weskamm and Johannes Pinsk. Theological innovations in the field of tension of "anti-modernism". Yearbook for Central German Church and Order History . Edited by Clemens Brodkorb and Peter Häger, 2nd year 2006, ISBN 978-3-929413-99-1 , pp. 177-199.
  • Klaus Unterburger :  Pinsk, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 458 ( digitized version ).
  • Annelen Hölzner-Bautsch: 100 years of Mater Dolorosa Church - history of the Catholic community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012. Editor: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Mater Dolorosa, self-published, Berlin (2012), p. 91 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Johannes Pinsk (1891–1957) in the Diocesan Archives Berlin V / 32
  2. ^ Klaus Unterburger:  Pinsk, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 458 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Catholic Church in Western Pomerania ( RTF ; 164 kB)
  4. ^ Romano Guardini: Reports on my life - Autobiographical notes. From the estate edited by Franz Henrich, Düsseldorf, 1985, page 107
  5. ^ R. Grosche: "Pinsk", Lexicon for Theology and Church, Herder Verlag, Freiburg (1962)
  6. ↑ Karl-Heinz Schulisch: From the history of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gertrud in Alexanderdorf , chapter: Introduction of the monastic office - A decision matures , page 22 (1998)
  7. ↑ Aquinata care facilities - Everything you always wanted to know about us ( Memento from February 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), www.aquinata-pflegeeinrichtungen.de (accessed online on November 6, 2011)
  8. ^ Institute for East German Church and Cultural History: Archive for Silesian Church History , Volume 44, Verlag A. Lax (1986), page 243
  9. ↑ Program from Saturday, June 4, 1955 , www.tvprogramme.net (accessed online on November 7, 2011)
  10. ↑ My baptismal covenant should always be fixed , Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz) , February 2017, accessed on June 30, 2017
  11. ↑ 100 years of Mater Dolorosa Church - History of the Catholic Community in Berlin-Lankwitz - 1912 to 2012 , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed on April 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pinsk, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinsk, Johannes Andreas; Engelmann, Johanna (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1957
Place of death Berlin-Dahlem