Klaus-Peter Hertzsch

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Klaus-Peter Hertzsch (born September 23, 1930 in Jena ; † November 25, 2015 there ) was a Protestant German practical theologian , professor , poet and author .

Life

Klaus-Peter Hertzsch grew up as the son of the Protestant theologian Erich Hertzsch in Eisenach and studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena . From 1957 to 1959 he was the parish pastor and Konviktinspektor in Jena, 1959 to 1966 student pastor , then head of the office of the Protestant student communities of the GDR in Berlin . In 1967 he was at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg with the thesis Bertolt Brecht's ethics and anthropology in their importance to the hermeneutics of the doctrine of justification for Dr. theol. PhD . From 1968 until his retirement in 1995 he was Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Jena, and since 1977 also a member of the Synod of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR and the Thuringian Regional Synod .

Since 1960 Hertzsch has worked in the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) and participated in its third conference in 1960 as well as in the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly (ACFV) in 1961 and in the II. ACFV in 1964 in Prague . In 1986 he gave one of the main presentations at a seminar organized by the CFK and the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR in Bad Saarow on the subject of the “Language of Peace”.

Known to a wider circle Hertzsch was poetry, especially through its "biblical ballads" by five well-known stories of the Old Testament , by the Dessau regional church music director Wolfgang Elger (* 1932 in Görlitz were set to music), as well as the lyrics Trust the new ways that Written in 1989 for a wedding and shortly thereafter included as the last title in the evangelical hymnbook (EG) and in 1998 in the Swiss Reformed hymnal (RG).

Hertzsch died on the night of November 25, 2015 at the age of 85.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Book title from 1970
  • How beautiful was the city of Nineveh. Biblical ballads to read aloud. Union, Berlin 1967 = The whole fish was full of singing. Biblical ballads to read aloud. Radius, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Language of peace. Materials from the joint seminar of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR and the Christian Peace Conference / International. Bad Saarow 1986; like II, Prague 1987.
  • Thinking about the fish. Texts and sermons. Radius, Stuttgart 1994.
  • The sermon in the service. In: Hans-Christoph Schmidt-Lauber , Karl-Heinrich Bieritz (Hrsg.): Handbook of the liturgy. Liturgical Science in Theology and Practice of the Church. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1995, p. 731 ff.
  • Christian sermon on texts from the Old Testament. In: Berlin Theological Journal . 4th year, issue 1, 1997.
  • New every year. Christmas meditations. Wartburg, Weimar 2000; 2nd, expanded edition 2005, ISBN 3-86160-165-6 .
  • Tell my kids they're moving on. Memory. Radius, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-87173-247-8 .
  • How my life can be bright again. An invitation to confession in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Edited by the church office of the VELKD . Hanover 2002.
  • Let us look forward into the distance. Texts on the edge of my biography. Radius, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-87173-298-2 .
  • Opportunities of old age. Seven theses. Radius, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-87173-109-9 .
  • The strengths of the weak. Memories of a dangerous time. Radius, Stuttgart 2012.

As an employee

  • with Ingeborg Becker, Karl-Heinrich Bieritz , Friedrich Winter a. a .: Manual of Pastoral Care. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1983.
  • with Karl-Heinrich Bieritz, Christian Bunners , Jürgen Ziemer a. a .: Manual of the Sermon. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1990.
  • Klaus Raschzok (Ed.): Practical Theology as Self-Knowledge of the Church: Erich Hertzsch 1902–1955. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-374-02058-5 .
  • Reinhard Höppner (Ed.): Stay where God has put us. Contemporary witnesses report on the church in the GDR. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-374-02207-3 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst-Dietrich Egerer: 395 - Trust the new ways . In: Wolfgang Herbst , Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 14 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-50338-6 , p. 93–96 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Martin E. Brose, Hartmut Handt: "Trust the new ways". Background and melody devotion to LebensWeisen 98. In: Für den Gottesdienst 62 (September 2005), p. 44 f. ( online ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF file; 62 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michaeliskloster.de
  3. ↑ Günter Ruddat: Trust in the future - a song breaks out from the east. Text interpretation of “Trust the new ways”, LebensWeisen 98. In: Für den Gottesdienst 62 (September 2005), p. 46 ( online ( memento of the original from March 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF file; 62 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michaeliskloster.de
  4. ↑ Andreas Marti : “Trust the new ways” RG 843. A song from the core song list. In: Musik und Gottesdienst 66 (2012), pp. 179–182 ( online ; PDF; 208 kB).
  5. ↑ Paul Kohler: Trust the new ways . In: Newsletter of the SKGB . No. 01'20.
  6. ^ Protestant theologian Klaus-Peter Hertzsch died , report by the Protestant press service dated November 26, 2015, accessed on June 19, 2018
  7. ↑ EKD press release on the award of the Martin Luther Medal , EKD, October 31, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Hertzsch, Klaus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2015
Place of death Jena