Klaus Wegenast

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Klaus Wegenast in the seminar, Lüneburg 1969 (Photo: Frieder Gadesmann)

Klaus Albert Wegenast (real first name Nikolaus) (born December 8, 1929 in Stuttgart ; † November 29, 2006 in Bremgarten near Bern ) was a German Protestant theologian and important Protestant religious educator .

Life

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart, Klaus Wegenast began studying classical philology at the University of Tübingen with Walter Jens and Protestant theology with Rudolf Bultmann . Wegenast was a member of the Igel Academic Association in Tübingen . Wegenast also studied in Heidelberg and Marburg. In 1954 he passed the first and in 1957 the theological exam. From 1956 to 1962 Wegenast was a teacher at a Stuttgart high school. In 1960 he did his doctorate under Günther Bornkamm on "Understanding tradition in Paulus and in the Deuteropaulinen." From 1962 to 1972 he was professor of Protestant theology and religious education at the Lüneburg University of Education (the later Lower Saxony University of Education, Department Lüneburg). From 1972 to 1996 he taught as full professor for practical theology and religious education at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Bern . From 1974 to 1976 he was dean of the faculty and from 1987 to 1988 rector of the university.

His list of literature includes 34 books, over 320 essays, 400 book reviews, well over a hundred articles in specialist encyclopedias and reference works. He also wrote newspaper articles and gave interviews for radio and television programs. Wegenast was also the editor and editor of eight magazines and book series.

Important publications (selection)

  • Jesus and the Gospels . Gütersloh 1965.
  • Biblical lessons between theology and didactics . Gütersloh 1965.
  • (Ed.) Theology and teaching. Festival ceremony for Heinz Stock . Gütersloh 1969.
  • (Ed.) Together with Heinz Grosch . Religious instruction on the go . Hamburg 1970. In it: Kaus Wegenast, "The misery of Christianity". To a widely read pamphlet . P. 139ff.
  • (Ed.) Together with Erich Feifel . including manual of religious education . 3 volumes. Gütersloh 1973–1975.
  • (Ed.) Curriculum Theory and Religious Education . Gütersloh 1972 ISBN 3-579-04192-4 .
  • Faith - School - Reality . Gütersloh 1970, ISBN 3-579-041789 .
  • Orientation frame religion . Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-579-03725-0 .
  • Looking for life . Religion 7/8. Frankfurt / M. 1984, ISBN 3-425-07867-4 . Together with Frieder Gadesmann and others
  • Looking for life . Religion 9/10. Frankfurt / M. 1988, ISBN 3-425-07868-2 . Edited by Frieder Gadesmann.

literature

  • Horst F. Rupp: Klaus Wegenast (1929-2006). Religious education as an interdisciplinary joint discipline . In: Awakening and Contradiction. Swiss theologians in the 20th and 21st centuries, ed. by Angela Berlis, Stephan Leimgruber and Martin Sallmann. Zurich 2019, pp. 651–662.

Awards

  • 1989 Festschrift for his 60th birthday: Dietrich Zilleßen et al. (Ed.), Classic of religious education. Frankfurt / M. 1989 ( ISBN 3-425-07711-2 )
  • 2006 Dr. hc (Faculty of Education at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg).

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personal data
SURNAME Wegenast, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegenast, Nikolaus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, religious educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2006
Place of death Bremgarten near Bern