Reimar Zeller

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Reimar Zeller (born September 26, 1925 in Grenchen , Switzerland ; † December 1, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German theologian and art historian .

Life

Reimar Zeller grew up in Blumberg , Black Forest, and Kaiserslautern . His father Alphons Zeller was an old Catholic pastor , he had five siblings. After graduating from high school, he was an air force soldier from 1943 to 1945 . He was captured by the Soviets, but was able to escape. Theology studies in Tübingen , Mainz and Marburg followed ; from 1950 to 1956 he had his vicariate and the first pastoral position in Hohenwerbig and Kleinmachnow / GDR. In 1950 he married the writer Eva Zeller . In 1951 the daughter Susanne was born (the daughter Maren came from Eva Zeller's first marriage).

In 1956 the family left the GDR and went to South West Africa (now Namibia), where Zeller looked after the German community in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay (as well as the Angola Germans). In 1958 the twins Cordula and Joachim were born. In 1962 the family returned to the Federal Republic of Germany , where Zeller took over the community in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel until 1974 . From 1962 to 1974 he was a member and employee of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Düsseldorf. Zeller then lived in Villingen (Black Forest) and Heidelberg . During the last years of his career, Zeller worked as a religious educator at various grammar schools. He was also active as a narrator and worked for numerous ecclesiastical and secular press organs. During his years in Düsseldorf, for example, he regularly wrote theological articles for the Rheinische Post . Since 1998 he lived in Berlin.

Works (selection)

Fiction:

  • Butterflies in Bechuanaland. Novel . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1971 (under the pseudonym Simon Gerbert; first DVA 1970).
  • The magician in the Vatican. Novella about Thomas Mann . Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-86520-239-X .

Art history and theological books:

  • Automobile. The magical object in art . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1985.
  • (Ed.): The automobile in art. 1896-1996 . Prestel, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7913-0772-X (catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Haus der Kunst in Munich).
  • Luther like nobody knows him. Luther letters from everyday life . Herder, Freiburg / B. 1983, ISBN 3-451-19692-1 .
  • Gospel preacher. Heirs of the Reformation as reflected in art . Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7954-1154-8 .

Articles in edited volumes, newspapers and magazines:

  • Diary of a visitation trip to the Okavango , in: Afrikanischer Heimatkalender 1962, pp. 107–112.
  • Threatened by pagan customs. On the pastoral letter of the Rhenish mission churches in South West Africa , in: Our Church. Evangelical Sunday paper for Westphalia and Lippe, Volume 18, No. 21, May 26, 1963.
  • The hot iron of ecumenism. The churches and the race question in South Africa , in: Der Weg, born in 1963, No. 24/25, 16. u. June 23, 1963, p. 5.
  • The black churches and apartheid , in: Der Weg, born 1963, No. 27, July 7, 1963, pp. 4/5.
  • Is God angry with the whites? Prophets in Africa , in: Der Weg, 1963, No. 36, September 8, 1963, p. 5.
  • The letter to the editor , in: Der Weg, born 1963, No. 44, November 3, 1963, p. 4.
  • Das Gotteslob der Camels , in: Der Weg, born 1964, No. 20, 17./18. May 1964, p. 7.
  • Africa in the mirror of recent literature , in: Afrikanischer Heimatkalender 1964, pp. 94-100.
  • Is there a modern Christian art? , in: Afrikanischer Heimatkalender, 1968, pp. 86–91.
  • Ticking in the line , in: Eva Zeller (ed.): Generations. Thirty German Years, Stuttgart 1972, pp. 82-87 (under the pseudonym Simon Gerbert).
  • Honor rescue of Joseph , in: What comes to mind for Christmas, ed. v. Horst Nitschke, Gütersloh 1974, pp. 42-44 (under the pseudonym Simon Gerbert).
  • The car enjoyed pious respect. Pope Pius XI was enthusiastic about technical achievements like none of his predecessors , in: Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt, No. 52, December 29, 1989, p. 16.
  • Memories of Leonard Auala. Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambo Kavango Church , in: Namibia Magazin 4/2002, pp. 10–12.
  • The Lord's Prayer in pictures. Leporello with accompanying texts to the painting cycle by Siegfried Arno Gottlieb Angermüller , Heidelberg, Atelier SAGA, 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Reimar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenchen
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2007
Place of death Berlin