Karl Rottenschlager

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Karl Rottenschlager (born December 2, 1946 in Steyr ) is an Austrian social worker and publicist .

Life

Rottenschlager studied theology in Vienna and was a social worker in the Stein prison .

In 1982 he founded the Emmaus community in St. Pölten , an associated member of the Emmaus movement according to Abbé Pierre , as an organization of the Austrian Caritas for the integration of people after their prison sentence, subsequently a community for socially disadvantaged people. The community now includes four dormitories, three emergency sleeping places, two day centers and four companies that are intended to facilitate entry into everyday working life.

Rottenschlager is the founder of a social market with shopping passes for people with low incomes in St. Pölten.

Fonts

  • Penitentiary reform, social therapy and rehabilitation projects as a challenge for prisoner pastoral care, Kath.-Theol. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 1980.
  • The end of the prison: human rights for criminals too? , Herold, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7008-0215-3 .
  • with Franz Marsam (illustration): Emmaus: Oases in a society with limited hope , Landesverlag Pressehaus NÖ, St. Pölten 1988, ISBN 3-85326-873-0 .
  • Violence ends where love begins: outcasts in a healing community , Landesverlag Pressehaus NÖ, St. Pölten 1994, ISBN 3-85326-008-X .
  • There is no such thing as a hopeless case: The socio-educational concept of the Emmaus community St. Pölten , Landesverlag Pressehaus NÖ, St. Pölten 1997, ISBN 3-85326-083-7 .
  • Emmaus - Oasis in a society with limited hope , Landesverlag Pressehaus NÖ, St. Pölten 1999, ISBN 3-85214-749-2 .
  • with Walter Feninger and Ernst Punz: Everyone has their dignity: 20 years Emmaus , Landesverlag Pressehaus NÖ, St. Pölten 2002, ISBN 3-85214-769-7 .
  • with Walter Feninger and Bernhard Herzberger: Places of Hope: 25 Years of the Emmaus Community in St. Pölten , Verlag Emmaus Community, St. Pölten 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502410-0-6 .

Filmography

  • Werner Ertel: Places of Hope: Karl Rottenschlager and his Emmaus community , after work, ORF 2, April 8, 2007, DVD media office of the diocese of St. Pölten 10min.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augustin Gerald Grassl: The "miracle" of St. Pölten: I wandered to Emmaus ..., 02/2001.
  2. ^ City of St. Pölten St. Pölten: Social Office cooperates with the first social market, April 26, 2006.
  3. ^ ORF2 Werner Ertel: Places of Hope , after work, ORF 2, April 8, 2007.
  4. ^ PRO Lower Austria: The Lion Heart Prize 2008 ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Friedensrose: Prize for St. Georgener, in: Bezirksrundschau Perg, No. 24, 13./14. June 2013, p. 12.
  6. ↑ Emmausgemeinschaft St. Pölten circular of the Emmausgemeinschaft St. Pölten, issue 4/14, November 2014, p. 24.

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personal data
SURNAME Rottenschlager, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rottenschlager, Charly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social worker and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr