Peter Bürger (publicist)

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Peter Bürger (born September 2, 1961 in Eslohe , Westphalia ) is a German left-Catholic journalist and Sauerland dialect researcher who is involved in the peace movement .

Life

Peter Bürger passed his Abitur in 1980 at the Königsmünster Abbey high school in Meschede . After doing community service, he studied Catholic theology in Bonn, Paderborn and Tübingen. He has lived in Düsseldorf since 1988 , where he trained as a nurse . This was followed by employment in hospitals ( psychiatry , infectious Station), in areas of psychosocial support of HIV -Betroffenen and drug users as well as in AIDS - prevention . In 1998 he co-initiated an ecumenical alliance for the rights of people on the streets. He has been a freelance journalist since 2004.

Peter Bürger in Berlin at a peace demonstration against the war in Afghanistan in 2007, left in the foreground - with the banner "(war grave) care" in his hands, Tobias Pflüger to his right next to him

Bürger has been an active pacifist since he was 18 and a member of Pax Christi , the International Federation of Reconciliation and the DFG-VK . In 2006 he was awarded the Bertha von Suttner Prize in the “Film & Media” category for his study “Kino der Angst” .

In 2002, Bürger returned to the Roman Catholic Church , impressed by John Paul II's commitment to peace , after having been a member of the Old Catholic community in Düsseldorf for more than twelve years . One of his core concerns is to bring together religious experience, piety and political theology .

South Westphalian dialect research

In 1988, Bürger co-founded a dialect archive at the Eslohe Machine and Local History Museum and initiated the publication of a work by dialect lyricist Christine Koch . He is currently publishing a four-volume series for the archive to cover all of the dialect literature in the Sauerland and neighboring areas in South Westphalia. His main focus is on the culture of the common people . In his publications on the homeland movement and Low German he also takes a critical turn against euphemistic historiography. On September 15, 2010, the cultural committee of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe decided to award Peter Bürger the sponsorship prize for Westphalian regional studies because of his “extremely valuable contributions to Westphalian regional and dialect history” .

In 2014, Bürger was awarded the Johannes Sass Prize , and in 2016 he received the Rottendorf Prize for services to the Low German language.

Publications

  • Liäwensbauk - explorations about life and work. = Christine Koch works. Supplementary volume. Fredeburg 1993, ISBN 3-930271-02-8 .
  • The song of love knows many melodies. A liberated view of homosexual love. Oberursel 2001. Second expanded edition. 2005, ISBN 3-88095-111-X
  • Napalm in the morning. Vietnam and the critical war film from Hollywood. Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-9807400-5-6 . Full text as PDF also on the Internet
  • Cinema of fear. Terror, war and statecraft from Hollywood. Stuttgart 2005. Second extended new edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-89657-472-5 .
  • Hiroshima, the war and the Christians. Düsseldorf 2005. Full text as PDF also on the Internet
  • Aaanewenge - people living and Low German people in the Sauerland. With a foreword by Hubertus Halbfas . Machine and Local History Museum, Eslohe 2006, ISBN 3-00-020224-2
  • Image machine for war. The cinema and the militarization of world society. Telepolis book, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-936931-45-7 .
  • Strunzerdal. The Sauerland dialect literature of the 19th century and its classics Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme and Joseph Pape. Machine and Local History Museum, Eslohe 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022809-4
  • Pro Judaeis. The Roman Catholic Church and the 20th Century Abyss. 2. Internet edition. Düsseldorf 2009, (PDF file; 1.2 MB)
  • The pious revolt - Catholics break out. Oberursel 2009, ISBN 978-3-88095-191-4
  • Im reyp Koren. A reference work on dialect authors, language certificates and Low German activities in the Sauerland and neighboring areas. Machine and Local History Museum, Eslohe 2010
  • Liäwensläup. Continuation of the Sauerland dialect literature history up to the end of the First World War. Eslohe 2012. ISBN 978-3-00-039144-6
  • Low German war poetry from Westphalia 1914–1918. Karl Prümer - Hermann Wette - Karl Wagenfeld - Augustin Wibbelt. Eslohe 2012 ( PDF file )
  • The national wing of the Sauerland homeland movement. About Josefa Berens-Totenohl, Georg Nellius, Lorenz Pieper and Maria Kahle - at the same time a contribution to the street name debate. Eslohe 2013 ( PDF file )
  • Peace Landscape Sauerland (edition Leutekirche 1) . Norderstedt 2016
  • Sauerlanders in resistance. Ambassadors of life and martyrs 1933-1945 (daunlots. Internet contributions from the christine-koch-mundart archive at the eslohe museum. No. 78) . Eslohe 2016, Sauerland Ambassador for Life and Martyrs 1933–1945
  • Sauerland messengers of peace. Peace workers, anti-fascists and martyrs from the Sauerland region of Cologne . Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7431-2852-1
  • as editor: Irmgard Rode (1911–1989). Documentation about a left Catholic and pacifist of the Sauerland (edition Leutekirche 2) , Norderstedt 2016
  • u. a .: Sauerland witnesses of life. Peace workers , anti-fascists and martyrs of the Sauerland region of Cologne , 2 vols. Eslohe 2016/2018 [ ISBN 9783743128521 and ISBN 9783746096834 ]
  • as editor: "A black cloud threatens". Catholic Church and World War II , Bremen 2018
  • with Rainer Schmid / Thomas Nauerth / Matthias-W. Engelke (Ed.): In the pay of the butchers - Texts on military pastoral care in the Hitler War , (Edition pace, Vol. 6), Norderstedt 2019
  • with Rainer Schmid / Thomas Nauerth / Matthias-W. Engelke (Ed.), Arming Souls - On the Critique of State Church Military Pastoral Care , (Edition pace, Vol. 8), Norderstedt 2019
  • Calls for help from the military bishop . To “Sigurd Rink: Can Wars Be Just? Faith, Doubt, Conscience - How I, as a military bishop, seek answers. With the assistance of Uta Rüenauver. Berlin: Ullstein 2019 ". Digital special print. Düsseldorf, August 15, 2019

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LWL press release (from September 16, 2010)
  2. ↑ Bevensen Conference: Prize Winners 2014
personal data
SURNAME Citizen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German left-wing Catholic journalist and Sauerland dialect researcher involved in the peace movement
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Eslohe , Westphalia