Matthias Storck

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Matthias Storck (born June 18, 1956 in Roßla ) is a German pastor and author . He was a political prisoner in the GDR .

Life

Matthias Storck attended the church college in Hermannswerder and graduated from high school there. At the age of 17 he began an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig before he began studying theology in Greifswald in autumn 1976 ; At that time he was still under the impression of the self-immolation of Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz in Zeitz and the expatriation of the songwriter Wolf Biermann . Even during his school days he stood up for his convictions in the SED state. Storck was betrayed by a friend, the pastor Frank Rudolph, who denounced as a Stasi IM with the code name "Klaus". As a student, he and his future wife were arrested in Greifswald in October 1978 for their involvement in military education in the GDR on charges of the planned " illegal border crossing ". After 14 months in prison in Cottbus , he was ransomed from prison by the federal government in December 1979 and released to the Federal Republic of Germany. Matthias Storck finished his theology studies in Münster and was pastor in Kirchlengern from 1988 to 2006 . Since 2006 he has been pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Marien-Kirchengemeinde Stiftberg in Herford . In July 2019, he announced his resignation. After giving up his office on October 1, 2019, he will move to Bielefeld , from where he could take on representations in the Halle church district if his condition improves. He processed his experiences in two autobiographical books. Matthias Storck is married and has three grown children.

literature

  • Sina-Christin Wilk: When the Church gave the people a voice - Protestant peace work and its influence on the transition in the GDR. 2012, pp. 27–35.

Publications

  • Checkered Clouds: Life Descriptions of a Free-Buyer. Foreword by Wolf Biermann. Brendow, Moers 1994, ISBN 3-87067-531-4 .
  • Paths through No Man's Land: Considerations of a Free-Buyer . Foreword by Wolf Biermann. Brendow, 1996, ISBN 978-3-87067-613-1 .
  • Role models - against forgetting . Fundus series, 44th Rauhen Haus agency, 2000.
  • Trailblazer: Against indifference . Fundus-Heft 71, Agentur des Rauhen Haus Hamburg, Norderstedt 2002, ISBN 3-7600-8071-5 .
  • Fatherland to take away - experiences of a freebought . Brunnen-Verlag, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pastors at the limit with Matthias Storck When burnout threatened
  2. ↑ Thomas Hagen: Big birthday: Matthias Storck has been a Marian pastor for ten years , in: Neue Westfälische, June 18, 2016
  3. ↑ Matthias Storck at gedenkbibliothek.de
  4. ↑ Bärbel Hillebrenner: Pastor makes his depression public in the parish letter , in: Westfalen-Blatt , July 5, 2019
  5. ↑ Ralf Bittner: Depression forces Pastor Matthias Storck to give up the pastor's position in: Neue Westfälische, July 27, 2019
  6. ^ Pastor Matthias Storck , in: Brunnen-Verlag , accessed on July 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Storck, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and pastor, political prisoner in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossla