Michael Albus

Michael Albus (born March 17, 1942 in Bühl / Baden) is a German theologian, TV journalist and book author.

Albus studied German and theology in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1964 to 1969, and did his doctorate with Klaus Hemmerle . From 1971 to 1976 he headed the press, journalism and culture departments at the Central Committee of German Catholics , after which he headed the Church and Life (Catholic) editorial department at ZDF until 1985 . Until 1998 he was the head of the main editorial department "Children, Youth and Family" at ZDF.

Albus is the author of numerous documentaries and reports, he was a commentator in "heute" and "heute-journal" and moderator of magazine programs and live discussions. Albus became known through three series of cultural reports, "Apartments of the Gods" about the sacred mountains of the world religions (together with Reinhold Messner ) and about "Early Places of Christianity" in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul and "Apartments of God", about mystical places of the three monotheistic ones Religions.

Since 2000, Albus has been the editorial director of the magazine Ost-West - Europäische Perspektiven . Since 2002 he has been honorary professor for religious didactics in the media at the theological faculty of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

In February 2011, more than 150 theologians from Germany, Austria and Switzerland - including Albus - signed a memorandum , written by an eight-person editorial team, Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening , in which, in addition to the admission of women to ecclesiastical office and the participation of the church people the appointment of pastors and bishops also called for the end of celibacy .

Publications

• The truth is love. To differentiate the Christian after Hans Urs von Balthasar . Freiburg 1976
• The risk of freedom. Christians under the crescent moon. Aachen 1983
• Life Paths series : Ruth Pfau . A life against leprosy. Düsseldorf 1984
• Lucien Bidaud . The wasted life. Düsseldorf 1984
• Paulo Evaristo Arns . I don't wear purple. Düsseldorf 1985
• Scalabrini . God goes all ways. Düsseldorf 1985
• Philomena Franz . Love has conquered death. Düsseldorf 1988
• Rupert Neudeck and the Cap Anamur Committee. Ark in the flood. Düsseldorf 1989
• The world is full of hope. Lexicon of good initiatives. Mainz 1984
• with Paul Michael Zulehner : Only the spirit gives life. On the situation of the church in Germany after 20 years of council and 10 years of synod. Mainz 1985
• Words like bread. A text that gives center to my life. Munich 1987
• Hermann Cardinal Volk . In conversation with Michael Albus. Stuttgart 1988
• Fire in the night. A reader on the future of faith and the church. Düsseldorf 1988
• Will you take me in? Children between fear and hope. (About the street children of Bogotá ), Munich 1988
• The trip to the children. Colombian diary. Munich 1989
• with Peter Härtling : Children of one earth. Düsseldorf 1990
• with Peter Härtling , Rupert Neudeck : quicksand. People on the run. 1990
• Children from the night. 1992
• Hanna-Renate Laurien , Eugen Drewermann (Hrsg.): Questions to the creed. (ZDF discussion edited as a book), 1992
• Eugen Drewermann , Eugen Biser (ed.): Which creed? 1993, (translation into Czech)
• Ways up. Mountain meditations. 1993
• Church before the infarct. 1993
• Tide. On the appearance and disappearance of God. 1993
• Terra X . Expedition into the unknown. Mummies magicians mutineers. In it: Chimborazo - with Reinhold Messner on the Humboldt Route , 1993
• Politics and belief. (Ed. Together with Jürgen Hoeren ). A difficult relationship. With contributions by Kurt Biedenkopf , Franz Kamphaus , Wolfgang Thierse , Christa Nickels , 1994
• Eugen Drewermann , Friedrich Schorlemmer (Ed.): Death or Life - From the sense and nonsense of belief in God. 1995, translation into Dutch
• with Bernardin Schellenberger : Faith A and O. 1995
• Christianity at the end of modernity. (Ed. And author), On the question of the future of Christianity, 1996
• Reinhold Messner : You won't find the limits of the soul. Michael Albus in conversation with a modern adventurer. 1996
• The unknown religion. In search of Christianity. 1997
• When God breaks into life. (Ed. And author), Testimonies from three millennia, 1999
• Ruth Pfau : Who has no tears. (Ed. And co-author), 1999
• with Bernardin Schellenberger : The magic of the everyday. 2001
• Book of hours of the desert. 2001
• Dwellings of the gods. Holy mountains. With a foreword by Hans Küng (illustrated book), 2002
• Book of hours of the mountains. 2002
• Francis of Assisi : Become a flame. Wisdom of the heart. 2003
• with Bernardin Schellenberger : Words from the desert. Sayings of the desert fathers. 2003
• Where God is at home. Mystical places of the world religions. (Islam / Konya , Judaism / New York , Christianity / Taizé) (illustrated book), 2004
• Ferryman between the banks. Michael Albus in conversation with the publisher Hermann Herder , 2006
• Taizé . The simplicity of the heart. The legacy of Brother Roger . 2006
• (Ed.): Ruth Pfau : Love and do what you want. Ways of my life. 2006
• In the footsteps of the apostle Paul. Early Christian sites. (Illustrated book), 2006
• Church after the infarct. From the future of religion. 2007
• (Ed.): No peace without sacrifice. Audio book / author reading CD. 2007
• (Ed.): Don't worry, just believe. The Eugen Biser reading book. 2008
• (Ed.): Reinhold Schneider -Lesebuch. Texts by a radical Christian. 2008
• You will recognize them by their words. Heckling about the zeitgeist. 2008
• Catholic. Humid. David Berger : No more holy appearances. Claudius Verlag, March 2015, ISBN 978-3532624739
• Go into the open. Steps to a Spirituality Fit for Life , Patmos Verlag, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Albus in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening , accessed February 4, 2011.