Peter Pitzele
Peter Pitzele (born July 23, 1941 ) became known to a German audience through the bibliologic method he developed . One of the lines of development of the bibliodrama can also be traced back to him.
Life
Pitzele grew up in a Jewish, secular family in the USA. He graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in English literature. He taught for several years as a literature lecturer. He later trained in improvisational theater. For 17 years he was Director of Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Hospital, Cantonah, New York. The psychodrama method, which he used in the clinical-psychiatric environment, he finally applied to biblical material and thereby gained access to the Jewish tradition himself.
Pitzele has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary .
Together with his wife Susan he developed a form of bibliodrama, a method of Bible study that he taught in Jewish and Christian communities in America, Europe and Israel and that is now regarded as an important form of the modern midrash .
Pitzele lives in Bay Shore NY.
Web links
- Bibliodrama: Peter Pitzele Bio
- Thomas Klatt (Deutschlandfunk Kultur): Look into the gaps in the text
Works
- Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter with the Myths of Genesis , Harper Collins, San Francisco 1995
- Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama , Torah Aura, 1997
- The wells of our fathers: Midrashim and bibliologist on Bereschit - Genesis , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012
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| SURNAME | Pitzele, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1941 |