Oskar Söhngen

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Oskar Otto Erich Söhngen (* 5. December 1900 in Hottenstein , now Wuppertal ; † 28. August 1983 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Söhngen, son of a mine director, studied Protestant theology , musicology and philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In Bonn he received his doctorate in 1922 with the work The mystical experience in Plotin's Weltanschauung for Dr. phil., in Marburg 1924 Lic. theol. . In 1927 he became pastor of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union in Cologne-Kalk , but in 1932 he switched to the Old Prussian Evangelical High Church Council in Berlin. In 1933 he was put on hold and in 1934 he was called up again. In 1936 he became senior consistorial advisor and music director of the German Evangelical Church (DEK). In a speech at the opening of an “Art Service” exhibition in 1938, he stated u. a .:

" What is created here wants to be ... with full consciousness also to be German art and to be within the scope of the objectives set by the leader of German art ... "

In 1949 he and Otto Bartning were among the initiators of the Protestant Church Building Day.

In 1952 Söhngen was appointed Vice President of the Church Chancellery of the Evangelical Church of the Union , and he was also President of the Von Canstein Biblical Institute .

In the 1950s and 1960s he was co-editor of Art and Church. Quarterly magazine for church building and church art .

Fonts (selection)

  • The first phase of the church struggle (June 24th up to and including July 2nd, 1933) . 1933.
  • with Ernst-Viktor Benn: Union and Lutheranism . 1948.
  • The renewal forces of church music of our day . Berlin 1949.
  • Protestant church building conference in Berlin 1948. A report . Berlin 1949.
  • The future of the hymnal . Berlin 1949.
  • Hundred years of Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Old Prussian Union. 1950.
  • The church music office in the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union. The most important current ordinances and decrees in the field of church music. Berlin 1950.
  • with Wulf Thiel: agenda for the children's service . 1952
  • The rebirth of church music. Changes and decisions . Kassel 1953.
  • Fighting church music . The practical test of Protestant church music in the Third Reich . Kassel 1954
  • Center regained? The role of church music in modern music . Berlin / Darmstadt 1956.
  • The enduring importance of pietism . 1960.
  • Theological foundations of church music. 1961.
  • Building church . 1962.
  • Change and persistence. Lectures and treatises on church music and liturgy. Berlin 1965.7
  • as publisher: Testimony and service in the field of tension of time. Contributions from the Evangelical Church of the Union for the 60th birthday of Franz-Reinhold Hildebrandt . Düsseldorf 1966.
  • Theology of music. 1967.
  • with Christhard Mahrenholz etc .: Liederkunde . Handbook for the Evangelical Church Hymn Book Volume III. First part: song 1 to 175 . 1970.
  • Renewed church music. A polemic . Göttingen 1975.
  • Musica sacra between yesterday and tomorrow. Development stages and perspectives in the second half of the 20th century . Göttingen 1979.
  • with Siegfried Herrmann : The Bible in a nutshell . 1995.

literature

  • Shape and Belief . Festschrift for Vice President Professor D. Dr. Oskar Söhngen on his 60th birthday. Published by a group of friends, 1960.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Prolingheuer: Hitler's pious iconoclasts. Church & Art under the Swastika, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-920862-33-3 , p. 114

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personal data
SURNAME Söhngen, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Söhngen, Oskar Otto Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hottenstein
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1983
Place of death Berlin