Manfred Günther (pastor)

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Manfred Günther (* 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Protestant pastor i. R., poetry author and copywriter from Mücke (Hessen) in the Vogelsberg district .

Life

After graduating from high school, Manfred Günther did an apprenticeship in advertising and also worked as a copywriter for a number of years. Then he studied Protestant theology and worked as a country pastor for 25 years until his early retirement in 2003.

Act

In 1979 Günther became the first pastor of Ilsdorf (Mücke), in 1982 his parish "Groß Eichen und Ilsdorf" was officially founded.

Manfred Günther became known nationwide because he developed a homepage called “Predigt-Eichendorf”, which now contains more than 1,000 sermons (sermon archive), several hundred devotions, funeral sermons, psalm songs and other topics. His website with the subtitle “Ev. virt. Landgemeinde Eichendorf "he calls his" guest house ". The homepage also contains constantly updated references to the large collection of current sociopolitical poems in the rhyme form pair rhyme / end rhyme impure, dull, often assonant and shows other curiosities like his joke " Beffchen " collection.

The pastor's poems always appear in advance as a weekly column in the Alsfelder Allgemeine Zeitung . Manfred Günther also gives them at numerous readings in Platt . Günther donates all income from his writing to projects such as "Neue Arbeit GmbH Vogelsberg" or the "Grünberger Tafel ".

Fonts (selection)

  • What such a good pastor can experience in Vogelsberg .
  • A Christian who looks in the mirror ... , Brühl, Gießen 1989, ISBN 3-922300-37-5
  • Closer than you think . 17 stories
  • Vote a song for God (60 songs), o. O., o. J.
  • A laugh on the seventh day , (365 poems) Winter, Heuchelheim [1995], ISBN 3-926923-19-9
  • On the seventh day a singing , (52 songs) Heuchelheim.
  • A Christian by the name of Pastor Schein , 110 "A Christian ..." poems; Vogelsberg 2005
  • News from Pastor Schein .
  • Only a little exaggerated , Heuchelheim 2008.
  • In Eichendorf with Pastor Schein .
  • Longitudinal and transverse to the time , Grünberg 2011
  • 50 personal sermons for the festive half of the church year . Fromm 2011, ISBN 384 1600506

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festival for half-timbered church at the new place . Alsfelder Allgemeine , April 5, 2011, accessed on April 3, 2018.
  2. ^ Letter exchange Manfred Günther and Christoph Fleischer. In: der-schwache-glaube.de. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; accessed on April 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Christine Süß-Demuth: Everything just stolen? When the sermon doesn't come from the pastor himself . ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 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. In: Sonntagsblatt 42/2012, October 14, 2012, accessed on April 3, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonntagsblatt-bayern.de
  4. ↑ Showcase: Manfred Günther - Pastor in Vogelsberg. 100 poems from Manfred Günther's column, “Läng und quer zur Zeit” appear as a book. In: Believe current. Archived from the original on June 10, 2013 ; accessed on April 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Weltbild shows the new Günther book. (No longer available online.) Weltbild, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 3, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.weltbild.de
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and poetry author
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main