Peter Paul Kaspar

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Peter Paul Kaspar (* 1942 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Catholic pastor, professor, musician and writer.

Career

Kaspar studied music (church music and organ) and theology in Vienna and Innsbruck. After two academic degrees, he was in 1966 by Cardinal Franz König in his home parish of St. Anthony of Padua (Schwarzlackenau) in Vienna- Floridsdorf for priests ordained. Initially he worked as a chaplain in Hainburg an der Donau and Vienna XX., From 1981 to 1989 as a youth and student chaplain throughout Austria , and from 1983 to 2013 in Linz as an academic and artist chaplain . In addition, he taught religion at the Academic Gymnasium from 1982 to 2007 and music theory (sacred music) at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz from 1992 to 2008 . Since 1985 he has been rector of the art-rich baroque Ursuline Church in Linz city center, where, after a period of closure and restoration, he founded and supervised a Sunday evening congregation (8 p.m.) specializing in music and sermons - today together with the university chaplain Markus Schlagnitweit, who meanwhile also became his successor as an academic chaplain.

He wrote around 30 books, most recently five books on music and religion, and wrote regularly for the print media on questions of church reform, he gave concerts at home and abroad and gave lectures on questions of church music. He is a member of the PEN, was a member of the Provincial Cultural Advisory Board for Upper Austria for two sessions, is also a board member of the Austrian Pastors' Initiative and regularly writes for the media on questions of church reform. Federal President Heinz Fischer awarded him the title of professor, the Governor of Upper Austria Josef Pühringer the gold medal of Merit of Upper Austria, the President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce Christoph Leitl the Julius Raab Medal and Bishop Maximilian Aichern the title of Consistorial Councilor.

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Works

  • Meditation services , Styria 1973
  • What makes us live. Life questions in literature, chansons, the Bible, etc. Reflexion , Lahn Verlag 1974
  • Believe at your own risk. Provocation texts , Styria 1974
  • Affection. A way to learn communication, partnership and sexuality , Herder 1979
  • You listen to me Meditations and Prayers , Herder 1981
  • And wouldn't have love. Meditations on 1 Cor. 13, Herder 1982
  • You are beautiful my friend Das Hohelied der Liebe (with J. Dirnbeck), Herder 1983
  • Tenderness and comfort. Ability to suffer - ability to love , Herder 1983
  • with Alois Kraxner and Gerhard Lang: Christlich Leben , Herder Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-210-24660-2 .
  • Commitment. Poems , Lahn Verlag 1983
  • The clocks lie. On the serenity in dealing with time , Herder 1984
  • with Susanne Heine , G. Hierzenberger and Peter Pawlowsky : Small religious dictionary , Herder 1984
  • Friend of life. About the other God of the Bible , Veritas 1986
  • Images of Faith. Meditation texts on the Bible manuscript by Wilhering , Veritas 1986
  • Hallowed signs. Elements of Christian worship, Herder 1986
  • How good that you exist. A book about love , Herder 1989
  • Hallowed Times. Signs and symbols in the cycle of the year , Herder 1989
  • Nostalgia. The restlessness of the heart , Herder 1989
  • with Anna Porizka (photos): Water is life , picture meditation volume , Tyrolia Innsbruck 1990, ISBN 3-7022-1759-2 .
  • with Anna Porizka (photos): Vienna , Tyrolia Innsbruck 1992, ISBN 3702217754 .
  • Probably for half the night. Signs and symbols around Advent and Christmas , Tyrolia 1994
  • If he hadn't been born. Signs and symbols in the Easter festival circle , Tyrolia 1995
  • The silence of the cardinal and the desire of the church people , Kulturverlag Wien 1995, ISBN 3-85400-001-4 .
  • Boys' seminar. An obituary , Otto Müller Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-7013-0943-4 .
  • with Lois Lammerhuber (photos): You touched me. The power of love , Tyrolia Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3-7022-2072-0 .
  • Musica Sacra. The great book of church music , Styria Graz 1999, ISBN 3-222-12738-7 .
  • For confirmation , Styria Graz 2000, ISBN 3-222-12754-9 .
  • with Katharina Stögmüller (photos): Hochzeit , Styria Graz 2001, ISBN 3-222-12833-2 .
  • A great song. Music in Religion and Worship , Styria Graz 2002, ISBN 3-222-12943-6 .
  • Sacraments. The language of characters , Styria Graz 2003, ISBN 3-222-13114-7 .
  • The naked Madonna. Heretical essays , Ennsthaler 2004
  • Portrait of the most important musicians , (book series Marixwissen) 2006
  • Sound speech. Music as Language , Styria 2008
  • Who stole the Ave Maria? The checkered history of musical catchy tunes, Pustet Salzburg 2016

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SURNAME Kaspar, Peter Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic clergyman, writer, musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna