Petra Bahr

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Petra Bahr (born April 29, 1966 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German Protestant theologian and has been a regional bishop (former official title: Landessuperintendent ) for the Hanover district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover since 2017 . She has been a member of the German Ethics Council since 2020 . As senior church councilor of the EKD, she was cultural representative of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) from 2006 to 2014 . In this office, Petra Bahr represented the cultural commitment and the cultural-political positions of the EKD and its regional churches.

Live and act

After training as a journalist, Petra Bahr studied theology and philosophy from 1989 to 1996 and then worked as a management consultant after completing her doctorate, during which she was a scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst .

Petra Bahr did her doctorate in 2002 under Georg Pfleiderer with a religious-philosophical thesis on the critique of the judgment of Immanuel Kant . As a freelance author, she brought out numerous publications on the relationship between church and the arts, as well as on the tension between law-religion-politics, religion and reason, as well as the return of religion. Petra Bahr writes regularly for national newspapers and makes announcements for Deutschlandradio and RBB .

From 2000 to 2005 she was a consultant for theology at the research facility of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST) in Heidelberg with a focus on “Relationship between Law and Religion”, “The Theological Conversation with Cultural Studies” and “Protestantism and Culture”. In 2006 she was appointed the first cultural representative of the EKD Council. In 2010 Petra Bahr was an Eisenhower Fellow in the Multi Nation Program .

In June 2011 she was defeated by the theologian Kirsten Fehrs in the election to succeed the resigned Bishop Maria Jepsen of the North Elbian Church .

As the head of the cultural office of the EKD , which is based in Berlin , she promoted the cultural-political dialogue and the dialogue with the arts, stimulated commemorative culture and educational projects and brought traditions and current issues of Protestantism into public discussion. On September 1, 2014, she moved to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in a new role . Here she took over the management of the Politics and Consulting department. Since January 2017 she has been regional bishop for the district of Hanover.

In April 2020 she was elected a member of the German Ethics Council at the suggestion of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. There she focuses on social cohesion / participation, medical-ethical questions at the beginning and end of life and legal ethics.

Memberships

position

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“Anyone who wants to leave the church in the village without turning it into a museum should open its doors wide, not just to let the world in. The Christian faith does not belong in dark, stuffy buildings - it lives from the committed contemporaneity in the fresh air, even if it can get a bit drafty. Christian faith, which takes its cultural responsibility seriously, fights for culture against the 'clash of cultures'. "(Petra Bahr)

Private

Bahr has been married to the lawyer, university professor and head of the Canon Law Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Hans Michael Heinig , since 1996 . The couple has a son.

Selected publications

  • Representation of the unrepresentable. Religious-theoretical studies on the concept of representation at AG Baumgarten and I. Kant. Tübingen 2004 (dissertation).
  • Paul Gerhardt - Get out of my heart. Life and effect. Freiburg im Breisgau 2007.
  • Freedom in dialogue. Dialogue sermons on the 20th anniversary of the peaceful revolution. Petra Bahr, Christhard-Georg Neubert (eds.), Berlin 2010.
  • Protestantism and Poetry. Petra Bahr, Aleida Assmann , Wolfgang Huber and Bernhard Schlink (eds.), Protestantism and Culture, Volume 2, Gütersloh 2008.
  • Our Father. Practice in Christianity. Petra Bahr, Joachim von Soosten (eds.), Edition chrismon, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Protestantism and European Culture. Petra Bahr, Aleida Assmann, Wolfgang Huber and Bernhard Schlink (eds.), Protestantism and Culture, Volume 1, Gütersloh 2007.
  • Human dignity in the secular constitutional order. Petra Bahr and Michael Heinig (eds.), Religion and Enlightenment 12, Tübingen 2006.
  • Strange places. The Church as a heterotopus in the city. In: In the eye of the strollers. Findings for religious art of living. Christianity and Culture Vol. 11. David Plüss , Tabitha Walther, Adrian Portmann (Eds.), Zurich 2009, pp. 77–84.
  • Europeans and citizens of the world. Scholarship and tolerance were a rare combination at the time of the Wars of Religion. In: Melanchthon. The magazine on the 450th year of his death , Church Office of the EKD and representative of the EKD in Wittenberg, Stephan Dorgerloh (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 70–74.
  • Barmen I: Listen to what? The Church of the Word and the Power of Images. In: Justified Freedom. The topicality of the Barmen Theological Declaration. Union of Evangelical Churches in the EKD, Martin Heimbucher (Ed.), Neukirchen 2009, pp. 13–28.
  • Now it is out. Confession is flourishing - in the media. The nasty thing about it indicates what is necessary. In: zeitzeichen, 9/2009, pp. 30–32.
  • It is in each of us. In: The Power of Evil. In: Rheinischer Merkur, March 5, 2009, p. 7.
  • Does the holy return? Religion in contemporary culture and its challenge for religious educational processes. In: Religious literacy and Protestant schools. Münster 2008, pp. 43–51.
  • A question of honour. Hurt feelings: what is art allowed to do in dealing with religion? In: zeitzeichen 8/2008, pp. 47–49.
  • On the meaning of public religion. In: State Church Law or Religious Constitutional Law? A conceptual political dispute. HM Heinig / C. Walter (eds.), Tübingen 2007, pp. 74-89.
  • Smuggling Path of Images. About the relationship between painting, cinema and Christianity. In: epd-Film , 7/2007, pp. 16-17.
  • The sign language of love. In: Publik Forum , 24/2006, p. 26.
  • Thinker of the gap. Hannah Arendt. In: zeitzeichen , 10/2006, pp. 67–68.
  • Protestant theology on the horizon of cultural studies. In: Handbuch der Kulturwissenschaften Vol. 2. Paradigms and Disciplines. Friedrich Jaeger, Jürgen Straub (Eds.), Stuttgart 2004, pp. 656–670.
  • Return of the Gothic. The pleasure of the new bourgeoisie in the religious. In: polar. Journal for Political Philosophy and Culture, Issue # 3, Polarkreis eV (Ed.), 2007.
  • Orientation gains through knowledge of life. About the religious grammar of arts education. In: politics and culture. Newspaper of the German Cultural Council , Berlin Sept./Oct. 2006, p. 6.
  • God can take criticism. In: Rheinischer Merkur, March 9, 2006, p. 23.
  • Leave the churches in the village! How civic engagement saves churches. In: Magazine for Monument Culture in Germany, Day of the Open Monument September 9, 2007 , German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.), Bonn 2007, p. 14.
  • The Chapel of Reconciliation, Berlin. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-410-6 .
  • How much religion can our society tolerate? Nicolai Publishing, 2018, 72 pages, ISBN 978-3-96476-004-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/nachrichten/2017/01/2017_01_25_3
  2. ^ Theologian Petra Bahr new to the German Ethics Council. EKD, April 30, 2020, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 2010 Eisenhower Fellow. 2010 Multi Nation Program. Rev. Dr. Petra BAHR  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.efworld.org   ( PDF file, 56 kB; English)
  4. ^ Daniel Kummetz: Insiderin against intellectuals , taz, June 16, 2011
  5. ↑ Kirsten Fehrs elected as the new bishop ( memento of August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , NDR.de, June 17, 2011, accessed on June 21, 2011
  6. ↑ Michael Brinkmann: EKD cultural representative changes to Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , EKD press office, June 2, 2014
  7. ↑ Regional Bishop Dr. Petra Bahr , Landeskirche Hannover, accessed on March 12, 2020
  8. ^ Members of the German Ethics Council elected. German Bundestag, April 23, 2020, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Petra Bahr. German Ethics Council, accessed on June 4, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bahr, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid