Jordana Schmidt

Sister Jordana 2007

Sister Jordana Schmidt (born March 6, 1969 in Grevenbroich ) is a member of the religious order of the Dominican Sisters of Bethanien , mother of the children's village in the Bethanien Kinderdorf Schwalmtal - Waldniel near Mönchengladbach and was one of the speakers for the Sunday Word . Sister Jordana is a trained pediatric nurse , qualified curative pedagogue and systems and family therapist .

In 1990 she entered a Cistercian convent in Denmark , where she was given the religious name Franziska . After bad experiences with monastic abuse of power and bullying in the monastery Sostrup , which was later abolished because of the abuses , which she describes in encoded form in her autobiographical book Ente zu dericht (2015), she left the Cistercian Order in 1994 two weeks before her perpetual profession and switched to the Dominican Sisters of Bethany. There she took the name Jordana , which is reminiscent of the Dominican Jordan of Saxony . In 1997 she completed a degree in therapeutic education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Cologne and trained as a system and family therapist ( DGSF ). From 2002 to 2012, Sister Jordana worked as the educational leader in the largest of the three Bethanien Children's Villages in Schwalmtal-Waldniel, where around 90 children and young people of all age groups are cared for. Since 2012 she is no longer the head of education, but lives as a children's village mother in one of the houses. From 2006 to 2010 she was one of the speakers for Das Wort zum Sonntag on ARD . In autumn 2011 she traveled with the TV presenter Rainer Maria Jilg through Turkey , Lebanon , the West Bank and Israel . The resulting three-part television documentary was broadcast in March 2012 on the ZDF digital channel ZDF.kultur and on 3sat . A year later, the book On Tea in the Desert: 11,000 Kilometers to Jerusalem was published .

literature

• Markus Ehrhardt , Jordana Schmidt, Reinhard Horn : Real children's rights . 1st edition. CONTACTS Musikverlag, Lippstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-89617-212-9 .
• Sister Jordana: 365 days full of life . Walter Verlag, Mannheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-530-50611-2 (with photographs by Joanna Vortmann and Iris Rohmann).
• Sister Jordana, Iris Rohmann: For tea in the desert. 11,000 kilometers to Jerusalem. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-62507-7 .
• Sister Jordana, Iris Rohmann: Duck to be given away. Walking barefoot to myself. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-62936-5 .

Web links

• Spokeswoman for the word for Sunday of the ARD ( Memento from August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• DRadio interview with Jordana Schmidt about her trip to the Middle East

Individual evidence

1. ↑ pp. 153-175.
2. ↑ Jordan and Diana - a love story? In: Kirche in WDR 3 , August 10, 2016, accessed on June 22, 2019.