Josef Fink (theologian)

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Josef Fink (born December 11, 1941 in Ebersdorf in Styria ; † November 29, 1999 in Graz ) was an Austrian theologian, artist, screenwriter, photographer, author of numerous newspaper columns and founder and long-time rector of the cultural center at the Minorites in Graz.

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Josef Fink was born as the second of four children on December 11, 1941 in Ebersdorf, East Styria. In 1961 he entered the seminary in Graz. During this time, numerous oil paintings, monotypes and graphics with religious themes were created. He was ordained a priest on July 10, 1966. Fink worked from September 1966 to 1968 as a chaplain in Irdning in Upper Styria. From 1968 to 1970 Fink was a chaplain in Deutschlandsberg . There he also began his journalistic work for the Weststeirische Rundschau , a regional newspaper, and later for the Kleine Zeitung and the youth magazine Die Wende . In 1970 he asked to be released from his priestly activities in order to study at the Academy of Applied Arts , which Bishop Johann Weber granted him for two years. From September 1972 to 1975 Fink was chaplain in Graz Kalvarienberg . In 1974 he designed the house chapel in the Mariatrost Education Center.
On November 4, 1975 he was given the task of founding the cultural center with the Minorites. Together with the cultural journalist Harald Seuter as secular director, he ran the cultural center for 20 years. In April 1976 his first film Das Kreuz ist kein Zierrat was broadcast on television ( ORF ). Two years later he met the filmmaker Jos Rosenthal , with whom he made over 20 other films over the next ten years. While filming in the Negev in 1979, Fink discovered weathered Nabataean characters that brought about a radical turning point in his artistic work. In 1984 Fink designed the chapel of the center for the disabled in the shepherd's monastery. In the same year he was appointed a member of the diocesan commission for liturgy and thus co-decision-maker for sacred art in the Styrian diocese. In 1991 he held an artists' retreat in Israel for the first time . On the occasion of his 50th birthday, he received a large exhibition at the Graz City Museum at the end of the year. At the Meditation '96 , which tried to get closer to the city of Jerusalem, he got an infection through his sore feet that was not properly treated. At the end of the year, he had to have two toes amputated due to the infection. In the course of 1997 his condition worsened and at the turn of 1998 his condition became life-threatening and both of his lower legs were amputated. In 1999 he completed his late main work: Jerusalem is a port city on the banks of eternity . Josef Fink died on the night of November 29, 1999.

Exhibitions

  • 2011: on the occasion of his 70th birthday in the Greith-Haus

Works (excerpt)

Publications

  • Close to the skin ; Cultural center at the Minorites, Graz 1999.
  • Between all stools ; Weishaupt, Gnas 2000, 1st ed.
  • God is young ; Weishaupt, Gnas 1999, 1st ed.
  • On air ; Weishaupt, Gnas 1998, 1st ed.
  • God in everyday life ; Weishaupt, Gnas 1997, 1st ed.
  • Chronic Heaven ; Styria , Graz 1995.
  • Intercession and introductory words to the feasts and feasts of the saints ; Verl. Styria, Graz 1993.
  • "50" ; Cultural Department of the State Capital, Graz 1991.
  • Wrap me up ; Styria, Graz 1988.
  • Catch me ; Styria, Graz 1986.
  • Collect me ; Styria, Graz 1984.
  • Blessed are the affectionate ; Veritas-Verlag , Linz 1982, 1st edition.

Films (excerpt)

Josef Fink has worked in numerous ORF films since 1975.

  • Judas is always there ; Image meditation on Maundy Thursday; First broadcast April 15, 1976, 9:45 p.m., ORF1 (15 ')
  • The cross is not an ornament ; First broadcast April 16, 1976, 8:00 p.m., ORF1 (15 ')
  • Is there god ; Scientists answer; First broadcast December 22, 1978, 9:15 p.m., ORF1 (50 ')
  • Let's go to Bethlehem ; Artists are looking for the meaning of Christmas today; First broadcast December 23, 1978, 9:55 pm, ORF2 (50 ')
  • And he saw that it was good ; Creation as a spiritual ecology; First broadcast April 16, 1979, 6:45 pm, ORF1 (20 ')
  • Blessed are the affectionate ; The Sermon on the Mount as a Political Alternative; First broadcast November 1, 1981, 6:30 p.m., ORF1, (30 ')
  • what is the human? ; Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?; First broadcast January 6, 1982, 6:00 p.m., ORF1 (60 ')
  • The something-against-nothing ; What can we hope for ?; First broadcast December 8, 1983, 10:10 p.m., ORF1 (45 ')
  • Apocalypse - visions of the end times ; First broadcast May 31, 1984, 6:00 p.m., ORF1 (60 ')
  • The women around Jesus ; First broadcast December 8, 1984, 9:00 p.m., ORF2 (60 ')
  • Refused tenderness ; About man's guilt for animals; First broadcast October 4, 1985, 6:30 p.m., ORF2 (60 ')
  • What should we do? ; Thoughts about ethics, morals and conscience; First broadcast January 3, 1988, 10:30 p.m., ORF1
  • If I had only one day to live ; First broadcast April 13, 1990, 10:20 p.m., ORF2 (45 ')
  • If he came today ; Thoughts on the birth of Jesus; First broadcast December 24, 1990, 9:50 p.m., ORF2 (45 ')

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Fink : Biography
  2. ↑ Greith-Haus ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Josef Fink exhibition from November 26th to December 8th, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greith-haus.at
  3. ↑ Filmography (requested on November 23, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Fink, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian and artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersdorf near Gnas
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1999
Place of death Graz