Martin Lagois

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Martin Theodor Alfred Lagois (born December 5, 1912 in Lagendorf / Altmark; † January 27, 1997 in Nuremberg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and television representative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . The Martin Lagois photo competition , which the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria eV (EPV) has been awarding every two years since 2008, is named after him .

biography

Studies and military service

Martin Lagois was born on December 5, 1912 in Saxony-Anhalt as a descendant of Huguenots and the son of a pastor . After studying theology in Göttingen , Tübingen and Halle , he wrote his thesis in 1935 on the doctrine of predestination - the doctrine of predestination - of the monk Gottschalk in the 9th century. He then did his vicariate in Osterburg and Iden in Saxony-Anhalt.

After his ordination as a pastor in 1938 Lagois went as assistant pastor at the service of the External Church Relations Office of the German Protestant Church of Rome . Two years later, after the Spanish Civil War , he moved to Bilbao to work for the "Protestant diaspora communities in Spain".

Family and parish office

In 1943 Lagois was called up for military service. After his release from the American " internment camp 76" on the Hohenasperg in Baden-Württemberg , he came to the dean's office in Nuremberg in 1946 with his wife Anneliese and their four children - initially as an "official assistant". In 1948 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria took over Lagois in the pastoral service and he became pastor of the parish of St. Leonhard in Schweinau the following year .

Media work

The Bavarian Protestant regional bishop Hans Meiser and the church journalist Robert Geisendörfer recruited Martin Lagois as editor in the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria eV. His interest in the media and his frustration with unprofessional media work were so great that, in addition to writing, he trained himself in the craft of the photographer and filmmaker.

Lagois did not succeed in rebuilding the Protestant daily newspaper “Allgemeine Rundschau”, but as editor and from 1952 as head of the Franconian editorial department he shaped media reporting on social issues, culture and community life. His contributions appeared in regional daily newspapers such as the “ Nürnberger Zeitung ” and “ Sonntagsblatt ”, the evangelical weekly newspaper for Bavaria. His magazine articles "View from the church tower" on 16-millimeter films also depicted church life in Bavaria and were the first step towards evangelical television.

At the Protestant Church Congress in Munich in 1959, Lagois shot his first film for Bavarian television . In the following years he traveled to Tanzania (1962), to the South Seas to New Guinea (1963), to the North Cape (1965) and to Brazil (1967) for more moving image reports .

With effect from January 1, 1969, the Bavarian Protestant regional church appointed Martin Lagois as television representative and managing director for production in the media headquarters of the regional church. From now on he was officially commissioned with the production of contributions for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and the Evangelical Film Society EIKON as well as image series and films for religious education and communities. Further trips to Brazil , Spain and Israel followed .

Even after 1980, when Lagois had already retired, he wrote, published and photographed with his Leica . This resulted in an illustrated book about the St. Sebaldus Church in Nuremberg or the book "Luther's Erben in Bayern". He created more than 50 audio and slide series .

From death to the Lagois competition

After his death at the age of 84 on January 27, 1997 in Nuremberg, Lagois bequeathed his photographic estate to the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria eV In addition to color slides, it comprised around 100,000 black and white negatives - a documentation of Franconian church history. The EPV sorted and digitized the picture material for its picture archive and in 1998 published the picture book “Frommes Franken. Martin Lagois, pastor and photographer ”. Since 2008, the “Martin Lagois Photo Competition” has been held every two years on socially critical, socio-political and ethical issues.

Awards

  • In 1979, State Minister Fritz Pirkl awarded Lagois the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in Nuremberg . The reasoning stated that with the help of his "journalistic evaluation" of the trips he had set "essential accents in the assessment of foreign countries".
  • In 1988, the Evangelical Media Center in Bavaria appointed Martin Lagois an honorary member for his services to church media work.
  • In 1992 the “ Evangelische Sonntagsblatt aus Bayern ” , published in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , presented Martin Lagois with the Wilhelm-Sebastian-Schmerl-Preis for his commitment to the development of Protestant press work in Franconia after the war. He shared the award, endowed with 10,000 marks, with the caricaturist and pastor Werner coastal maker .

literature

  • Hartmut Joisten (Ed.): Frommes Franken. Martin Lagois pastor and photographer. Claudius-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-583-30021-7 .

Publications

  • Martin Lagois: Protestant film work. In: Hans Heuer u. a. (Ed.): Our Evangelical Church Today. Mission and action of the church in the present. Nuremberg 1960, pp. 324-330.
  • Martin Lagois: Where shadows scratch the clouds. Reports from the evangelical service in Brazil. Publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Erlangen 1968.
  • Martin Lagois: New territory and Indian tent . Reports on the departure of the Evangelical Church. Publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Erlangen 1969.
  • Christoph Jahn (Ed.): It started on the Rio dos Sinos. With pictures by Martin Lagois. Publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Erlangen 1970.
  • Martin Lagois: World Mission Today. Exhibition in Neuendettelsau. Freimund-Verlag, Neuendettelsau approx. 1974.
  • Martin Lagois: In the midst of the living. A walk through the old cemeteries. In: City of Nuremberg (ed.): Nuremberg today. A magazine for citizens, friends and guests of the city. , Special edition for the 18th German Evangelical Church Congress in Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1979, pp. 66–70.
  • Wilhelm Schwemmer, Martin Lagois (ed.): The Sebalduskirche in Nuremberg. Albert Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 1979, ISBN 3-87191-043-0 .
  • Friedrich Eras, Martin Lagois: Luther's heirs in Bavaria. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7991-6090-6 .
  • Arteno Spellmeier: Have a word with the speechless: Fates on the Amazon. With photos by Martin Lagois. Publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Erlangen 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive of the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria eV
  2. ↑ State Church Archives Nuremberg.
  3. ↑ State Church Archives Nuremberg.
  4. ^ Archive of the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria eV
  5. ^ Archive of the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria eV
  6. ↑ Müller, Weigelt, Zorn (ed.): Handbook of the history of the Evangelical Church in Bavaria, Volume II 1800–2000, p. 434.
  7. ↑ News from the epd-Landesdienst Bayern: “From the 'picture chamber' to the modern media center” from September 20, 1990.
  8. ↑ News from the epd-Landesdienst Bayern: “Pastor Lagois retires” from March 27, 1980.
  9. ↑ Müller, Weigelt, Zorn (Ed.): Handbook of the History of the Evangelical Church in Bavaria, Volume II 1800–2000, p. 426; s. a. News report from the epd regional service Bavaria: "Pastor Martin Lagois 65 years" from December 5th, 1977.
  10. ↑ News from the epd-Landesdienst Bayern: “Pastor Lagois retires” from March 27, 1980.
  11. ↑ News from the epd-Landesdienst Bayern: “Press Pastor Martin Lagois turns 75” from December 3, 1987.
  12. ^ Nürnberger Zeitung: "Press Pastor with a View over the Church Tower" of December 5, 1992; s. a. Sunday paper: "He preached in his pictures" of February 2, 1997.
  13. ↑ Lagois photo competition of the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria eV: https://www.martin-lagois.de/presse
  14. ↑ News from the epd-Landesdienst Bayern: “Pastor Martin Lagois received the Federal Cross of Merit” from May 29, 1979.
  15. ↑ News from the epd-Landesdienst Bayern: “Honor for Press Pastor Martin Lagois” from July 7th, 1988.
  16. ↑ News from the epd-Landesdienst Bayern: “Awarded for services to Protestant journalism” from November 4, 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Lagois, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lagois, Martin Theodor Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and television representative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagendorf , Altmark
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1997
Place of death Nuremberg