Manfred Richter (theologian)

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Manfred Richter (born September 16, 1935 in Stockheim ) is a German Protestant theologian , adult educator , Comenius researcher , ecumenist and author .

Live and act

Richter is the son of Gottfried Richter, grew up in Munich and studied philosophy , theology and education (Dipl. Päd.) At the universities of Munich, Heidelberg , Göttingen and Tübingen . In 1961 he became assistant to Ernst Käsemann , and in 1964 he became a student pastor in Tübingen. In 1968 he took over his first pastor in the parish of Neustetten -Remmingsheim near Rottenburg am Neckar . In 1974 he took over the management of the House of the Church (today: Office for Church Services, AKD) within the Evangelical Church Berlin - Brandenburg (today: Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , EKBO). In 1976 he became director of the Evangelical Education Center in Berlin and from 1984 also held the office of President of Evangelical Adult Education in Europe. From 1993 to 2005 he headed the art service of the Evangelical Church at Berlin Cathedral . Richter is married to the theologian Heidi Richter and has five children.

further activities

In 2014 Richter was awarded a PhD from the University of Siedlce , Poland. the philosophy doctorate. In 1987 he and friends founded the association kontakte / kontakty with the Soviet Union (after 1991 with the successor states of the Soviet Union, with a focus on support for former Soviet prisoners of war ).

In 1991 Richter was a co-founder of the Society for Contemporary Art and Church Artheon , in 1992 co-founder of the German Comenius Society and in 1993 co-founder of the Johannes Lepsius House , Potsdam . Richter has been involved in the Unità dei Cristiani ecumenical initiative since 2001 and in the International Ecumenical Fellowship (IEF ) and in the Altenberg Ecumenical Discussion Group since 2017 .

Positions

Ecology and peace

In the work in the house of the church and in Ev. Bildungswerk has been negotiating the problems of lifestyle , anti-atomic movement , ecology and environmental protection in the sense of the demands of the Club of Rome and the program of the World Council of Churches (WCC) for a conciliar process for peace, justice and the integrity of creation and the green movement from the beginning granted their first public forum in Berlin.

Pedagogy, Comenius research and Comenian practice

At the national as well as the European level, Richter exemplified the adult education - practicing the consultation of public affairs by "everyone" - which was first discussed as part of the necessary lifelong learning by the founder of modern education, Jan Amos Komenský , called Comenius practiced in relation to current critical issues in the fields of science / education , politics / society and church / religion .

Contemporary art and church

The fundamental importance of aesthetics for religious education as well as for theology itself led to the demand for reflection and practice of the encounter between church and art , which has traditionally been neglected, especially in the Protestant field. With the art service of the Protestant Church (founded in Dresden in 1928, abolished in 2005), based at the Berlin Cathedral , were meeting with artists of contemporary art carried out exhibitions and symposiums. Richter moderated the conference of art commissioners and art services.

Ecumenism

Since the ecumenical "Spring" by the II. Vatican Council (1959-1962) and theological reasonable possibility opened to the cooperation of churches in too reconciling Christianity dominated judge activity in the Tubingen student community in the village community work in the Wuerttemberg church in the Berlin and European adult education as well as in the activity of the art service at the Berlin Cathedral. They led to decades of close ties to the Armenian Apostolic Church (award of the Order of St. Nerses Schnorhali ) and to the entire local ecumenical community in Berlin, to several ecumenical art projects and to ecumenical-political initiatives.

Board memberships

  • Since 1992 board member of the Society for Contemporary Art and Church "artheon" and of the German Comenius Society,
  • since 2015 participation in scientific committees in Poland (UHP Siedlce), the Czech Republic (Comenius Foundation Uherský Brod) and the Ukraine (Ivan Frankó Foundation).

Works

play

  • The Atlas and the Angel. A dialogue with historical scenes. Performed for the opening of the Potsdam Kirchentag on the Alter Markt in front of the Nikolaikirche on the occasion of the millennium of Potsdam , Potsdam, 1993, ISBN 3-89468-085-7

Non-fiction

  • Johann Amos Comenius and the Colloquium Charitativum von Thorn 1645. A contribution to ecumenism, Siedlce, 2013; 2nd edition Münster, 2018, ISBN 978-83-63307-84-4
  • Jan Amos Komenski w Polce. Krótki zarys życia i działalności, Sankt-Peterburg, 2015, ISBN 978-5-8015-0352-3
  • Jan Amos Komeński. Zarys życia i działalności, Siedlce, 2016, ISSN  2081-3295
  • OH SANCTA SIMPLICITAS! About truth that comes from history. An essay on ecumenism, Siedlce, 2017; 2nd edition Berlin - Münster, 2018, ISBN 978-83-64884-97-9

As editor

  • Manfred Richter, Lutz Mez: The Plutonium Society: Consequences of the use of nuclear energy for life in the future , Berlin, 1981, ISBN 978-3-597-10296-8
  • Manfred Richter, Bethge Richter: Church in Prussia: Design and History , Stuttgart, 1983, ISBN 978-3-17-007735-5
  • Frank Burckner, Manfred Richter, Hartmut Walsdorff: “Luther is dead!” The book about the event , Berlin, 1983, ISBN 978-3-88981-003-8
  • Robert McAfee-Brown: The yes and the no: what we owe to God and what to the state. A voice from the "other America". Edited and translated into German, Berlin, 1987, ISBN 978-3-88981-028-1
  • Wilhelm Dittmann, Georg von Glowczewski, Frank Pauli, Manfred Richter, Reinhard Stawinski: Berlin: 750 Years of Churches and Monasteries , Hamburg, 1987, ISBN 978-3-616-06724-7
  • Angel '89. Contemporary painting-graphic objects from the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic , Berlin, 1989, ISBN 978-3-926175-67-0
  • Manfred Richter, Elsbeth Zylla: With plowshares against swords , Bremen, 1990, ISBN 978-3-926958-73-0
  • The song of the last Jew. Jizchak Katzenelson in the adaptation of Hermann Adler , Berlin, 1992, ISBN 978-3-894680-23-7
  • Gottfried Kunzendorf, Manfred Richter: Bornstedt, Friedhof, Kirche: Märkischer Memorial Site of Prussian History and Resistance , Berlin, 1993, 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-933471-23-9
  • Hermann Adler, Manfred Richter: Songs from the City of Death: Death Camp Poems from the Vilna Ghetto 1941/42 , Berlin, 1994, ISBN 978-3-89468-129-6
  • Hravard Hakobian (author) Manfred Richter (ed.): Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh - Arzach in the struggle for survival. Christian Art , Berlin, 1994, ISBN 978-3-89468-072-5
  • Center for Media Art Culture in the Office for Community Service of the Ev.-Luth. Regional Church of Hanover (Klaus Hoffmann), Art Service of the Evangelical Church Berlin (Manfred Richter): Church rooms - Art spaces: Background, experience reports, practical instructions for dealing with contemporary art in churches. A manual , Münster, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8258-5197-2
  • Gabriela Nasfeter (Author), Art Service of the Evang. Church, Manfred Richter (ed.): Light pyramid: An art catalog as a document of an ecumenical adventure , Berlin, 2004, ISBN 978-3-933471-53-6
  • Manfred Richter, Barbara Sitarska, Roman Mnich: Werner Korthaase as Comenius researcher / Badacz Jana Amosa Komeńskiego [P./D.] , Siedlce, 2009, ISBN 978-83-7051-540-9
  • Rudolf Keck, Joachim Köhler, Johannes Köhler, Dieprand von Richthofen, Manfred Richter: Cultural history in dialogue - a gift from Josef Nolte , Hildesheim, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8067-8741-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Rennert: United Art and Church - End of an Institution: The Art Service of the Evangelical Church will be closed at the end of the year , in: die Kirche , September 4, 2005
  2. ↑ Jürgen Rennert: First among equals - On the 70th birthday of Manfred Richter on September 16, 2005 , in: die Kirche , September 18, 2005
  3. ^ Praise for the empty church , in: Augsburger Allgemeine , April 28, 2008
  4. ↑ Comenius-Jahrbuch 1/1993 , edited by G. Michel on behalf of the German Comenius Society (p. 91), 1993, ISBN 978-3-88345-720-8
  5. ↑ Thomas Klatt: Holy Men in Action - Interreligious Prayer for Peace at the Brandenburg Gate , in: die Kirche , March 30, 2003
  6. ↑ Tina Schwichtenberg, "NORD ART 2005" , March 30, 2003
  7. ↑ Religions-Philosophischer Salon: For a first overall ecumenical encyclical: A plea by Pastor Manfred Richter, Berlin. , October 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, adult educator, Comenius researcher and ecumenist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockheim