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The Jugenddienst-Verlag was a book publisher founded in 1951 by the CDU politician and church lawyer Hermann Ehlers in Oldenburg . In 1953 Ehlers hired the then 22-year-old publishing bookseller and later Federal President Johannes Rau as managing director in order to professionalize the publishing work. A little later, Rau organized the relocation of the publisher to his hometown of Wuppertal by initially relocating all of the publisher's holdings and documents to his mother's apartment on Riescheider Strasse. Two years later the publishing house moved into the premises on Völklinger Straße in the Wuppertal district of Barmen . This made Johannes Rau the first to work full-time for the publishing house. Together with the first chairman of the publishing house, Oberkirchenrat Johannes Schlingensiepen , he expanded its program. The publisher's new series dealt with theological issues, politics, democracy, the Third Reich, Judaism, the relationship between faith and science, and the topic of sexuality. Due to his political work, Rau had to partially withdraw from the publishing business. Because of this, he hired the bookseller Hermann Schulz in October 1960 .
From 1956 to 1971, 96 issues appeared in the series The Conversation on predominantly theological topics, some of which, due to their popularity, saw several editions (see table below). The editorial team changed several times over the years, the editing at least until 1965 was in the hands of Johannes Schlingensiepen , partly in conjunction with Heinrich Giesen , Manfred Müller and Adam Weyer .
On July 18, 1966, the Jugenddienst-Verlag was merged with Peter Hammer Verlag , which is also his legal successor. However, long after 1966, at least until 1990, the Peter Hammer Verlag published books under the publisher's name Jugenddienst-Verlag. It can still be found under this name in address directories (as of 7/2013). After the reorganization in 1966, Rau stayed for another year until he was elected as the leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , managing director of the publishing house, and then he withdrew completely from operational business.
Booklet series The Conversation
No. | author | Title (subject) | 1st ed. | 2nd ed. | 3rd ed. | 4th ed. | 5th ed. | 6th ed. | 7th ed. |
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1 | Walter Freytag | The riddle of religions and the biblical answer | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1962 | 1965 | |
2 | Johannes Harder | Between atheism and religion. An interpretation of Dostoevsky | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1961 | |||
3 | Hans-Joachim Kraus | Man and his world. Questions of biblical belief in creation and the image of man |
1956 | 1957 | |||||
4th | Helmut Thielicke | The fear of the world. To encounter nihilism |
1956 | 1961 | 1962 | ||||
5 | Otto Weber | Why Protestant? From protest to confession | 1956 | ||||||
6th | Guido N. Groeger | The genders. Encounter and partnership | 1957 | ||||||
7th | Walter Kreck | God's choice and our decision | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | ||||
8th | Gunther Backhaus | Ego te absolvo. Evangelical confession, yes or no? | 1958 | ||||||
9 | Claus Westermann | Uncertain future. Outlook, assurance, and confidence | 1957 | ||||||
10 | Hans-Rudolf Müller-Schwefe | Unresolved past. From yesterday to today | 1958 | ||||||
11 | Heinz-Horst Schrey | Our history. Embarrassment or chance? | 1958 | 1958 | |||||
12 | Siegfried Hajek | The hero of poetry and the real man | 1958 | 1958 | 1959 | 1964 | |||
13 | Karl Gerhard Steck | What separates us from the Roman Church? | 1958 | 1958 | 1959 | 1961 | 1964 | 1964 | |
14th | Wolf-Dieter March | Karl Marx asks the Christians | 1958 | 1958 | 1960 | ||||
15th | Hans-Joachim Finkeldei | Christian and technical existence. Thoughts about the origin and nature of their current tension |
1958 | ||||||
16 | Hermann Dietzfelbinger | How can you pray today? | 1959 | 1961 | 1964 | ||||
17th | Willy Kramp | The secret of authority | 1959 | ||||||
18th | Egon Franz | Church and Last Supper | 1959 | 1962 | |||||
19th | Hermann Noack | Thinking and knowing | 1959 | 1962 | |||||
20th | Hans-Joachim Kraus | Belief and thought | 1959 | 1962 | 1965 | ||||
21st | Götz Harbsmeier | What must a Christian necessarily believe? What must a Christian do? |
1959 | 1961 | 1962 | ||||
22nd | Johannes Harder | Fight for man. An interpretation by Nikolai Leskov | 1959 | ||||||
23 | Hans Walter Wolff | What does the Bible say about father and mother? | 1959 | 1962 | 1966 | ||||
24 | Otto Weber | The job as a question of life | 1959 | 1962 | 1966 | ||||
25th | Siegfried Hajek | Tolerance? | 1959 | 1959 | 1962 | ||||
26th | Hans Günter Grünweller | The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - Faith or Superstition? | 1960 | 1962 | |||||
27 | Günther Dehn | Sermon and worship, outdated? | 1960 | ||||||
28 | Günter Klein | Faith in miracles and the New Testament | 1960 | 1962 | 1964 | 1965 | 1970 | ||
29 | Heinz-Horst Schrey | Christian and Marxist understanding of history | 1960 | 1962 | |||||
30th | Johannes Harder | Between nihilism and discipleship. Tolstoy's interpretation | 1960 | ||||||
31 | Hans-Heinrich Voigt | Space and time in the worldview of modern natural sciences | 1961 | ||||||
32 | Hans-Georg Drescher | The conscience | 1961 | 1962 | 1966 | ||||
33 | Heinz Kremers | Belief in God the Creator or a scientific worldview? | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1966 | |||
34 | Hildegard Milberg | Israel and the peoples | 1961 | ||||||
35 | Jürgen Moltmann | The hidden person. The self-image of modern people |
1961 | ||||||
36 | Claus Westermann | Can You Believe the Bible? Reading and understanding biblical texts |
1961 | 1963 | |||||
37 | Rolf Stöver | From the reality of the mind | 1962 | ||||||
38 | Ehrhard Kamlah | The resurrection of Jesus Christ | 1962 | 1967 | |||||
39 | Wilfried Eckey | Fate and faith | 1962 | ||||||
40 | Hans-Georg Drescher | Ideology and Christian belief | 1962 | ||||||
41 | Adam Weyer | About the meaning of life | 1962 | ||||||
42 | Joachim Beckmann | Reunification of the Churches? | 1962 | ||||||
43 | Wilfried Eckey | Of divine and human freedom | 1963 | ||||||
44 | Eberhard Warns | What does it mean to tell the truth? Introduction to a topic by Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
1963 | ||||||
45 | Hans Walter Wolff | The Old Testament - Book of the Church of Jesus Christ | 1963 | ||||||
46 | Jürgen Moltmann | Evidence of God and counter-evidence | 1963 | 1964 | 1969 | ||||
47 | Joachim Beckmann | Evangelical interpretation of the Holy Scriptures | 1963 | ||||||
48 | Jürgen Seim | Thomas Mann - irony and confession. Theological remarks on his late work |
1963 | ||||||
49 | Jürgen Moltmann | The kingdom of God and loyalty to earth | 1963 | ||||||
50 | Hans-Dieter Bastian | From the mystery of evil or the sin of the pardoned | 1964 | ||||||
51 | Werner Braselmann | Faith and history with Jochen Klepper and Reinhold Schneider | 1964 | ||||||
52 | Walter Klaas | Eschatology. Hunch - fear - hope | 1964 | ||||||
53 | Gerhard Koch | Fides quaerens intellectum. Confession of faith in God's world game |
1964 | ||||||
54 | Horst Hirschler | Jesus Christ, Son of God | 1964 | ||||||
55 | Werner Jetter | Do I become a Christian through baptism? Do we remain Christians through the sacrament? |
1965 | ||||||
56 | Gerhard Isermann | From Christian peace ministry | 1965 | ||||||
57 | Ewald Rother | Contemporary history - my job | 1965 | ||||||
58 | Hans-Georg Drescher | You shouldn't make an image for yourself | 1965 | ||||||
59 | Manfred Josuttis | The dispute over the concept of God | 1965 | ||||||
60 | Heinz-Dieter Knigge | Jesus' death and our faith | 1965 | ||||||
61 | Paul Römhild | Creation or evolution? | 1966 | ||||||
62 | Walter Esken | Kierkegaard's fight for the right Christianity | 1966 | ||||||
63 | Jürgen Seim | Christians - avant-garde or stumbling block for the new human race? | 1966 | ||||||
64 | Hans Jürgen Baden | The man without a partner. The image of man in Max Frisch's novels |
1966 | ||||||
65 | Peter Lindemann | cybernetics | 1966 | 1969? | |||||
66 | Niels-Peter Moritzen | The Church as a Missio | 1966 | ||||||
67 | Jürgen Moltmann | Meditation on Hope | 1967 | ||||||
68 | Rudolf drilling | Difficulties with the Reformation | 1967 | ||||||
69 | Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker | Secularization and secularism | 1968 | ||||||
70 | Wolf-Dieter March | Thinkability of God? Fichte, Schleiermacher and Hegel answer the question about God (1797–1800) |
1967 | ||||||
71 | Enno Obendiek | What is atheism? | 1967 | ||||||
72 | Hans Helmut Eßer | People and nation in evangelical ethics | 1968 | ||||||
73 | Paul Römhild | From homo sapiens to homo sapientior? The future man - a superman? |
1967 | ||||||
74 | Friedrich Karrenberg | Temptation and responsibility in business | 1967 | ||||||
75 | Jürgen Tillmanns | Authority in contradiction | 1968 | ||||||
76 | Rudolf drilling | Johannes Bobrovsk. Attempt at interpretation |
1968 | ||||||
77 | Wolfgang Wesiack | Depth Psychology and Morals | 1968 | ||||||
78 | Hartmut von Hentig | Education for Peace | 1968 | ||||||
79 | Klaus Lefringhausen | Hope on the Hunger Front? | 1969 | 1969 | |||||
80 | Jean Améry ; Friedrich Heer ; Wolf-Dieter March | About the virtue of urbanity | 1969 | ||||||
81 | Jürgen Seim | The theme of love in the poetry of our time | 1969 | ||||||
82 | ? | Uppsala - Report and questions about the consequences | 1969 | ||||||
83 | Gerhard Isermann | Our life - our process. theological questions with Franz Kafka | 1969 | ||||||
84 | Manfred Wichelhaus | Jesus Christ crucified under Pontius Pilate | 1969 | ||||||
85 | Herbert Schultze | Education, warning, encouragement. Possibilities and limits of sex education |
1970 | ||||||
86 | Joachim Scharfenberg | The future of the family and the church | 1970 | ||||||
87 | Ladislav Prokupek | Man in Marxism. Questions from a Marxist to Christian anthropology |
1970 | ||||||
88 | Ulrich Hack | Career change through structural change | 1970 | ||||||
89 | Uwe Henrich | Democratization. Challenge for tomorrow | 1970 | ||||||
90 | André Dumas | Horizon 2000: The Development of New Forms of Community |
1970 | ||||||
91 | Dorothea Neumärker | Josef L. Hromádka. Political Theology in Socialism? | 1971 | ||||||
92 | Klaus Lefringhausen | Man in the wake of technology | 1971 | ||||||
93 | Klaus-Martin Beckmann | Humanity and technology. A contribution to the ecumenical Humanum study |
1971 | ||||||
94 | Horst Zilleßen | The struggle of ecumenism against racism | 1971 | ||||||
95 | Marie Veit | Creeds - Texts and Interpretations | 1971 | ||||||
96 | Gerhard Debus | Language and violence. Shown using the example of Latin American texts |
1971 |
literature
- Michael Gundlach: The Peter Hammer Verlag - A Wuppertal story in the text archive - Internet Archive . 20 S., Wuppertal 2001. This work also reports on the Jugenddienst-Verlag as a forerunner of the Peter Hammer Verlag and names other sources.