Rochus Spiecker

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Rochus Spiecker (born July 24, 1921 in Berlin ; † February 20, 1968 ), actually Johann Wolfgang Spiecker , was a German publicist and theologian . The Dominican priest was also active as a radio play and screenwriter .

Life

In 1939 Spiecker joined the Dominican Order . Before he began theological studies in Walberberg in 1946 , Spiecker took part in the Second World War as a soldier from 1941 to 1945 . He was ordained a priest in 1949. He studied in Rome until 1951 .

In 1952 Spiecker was entrusted with the religious supervision of the 14 to 16 year old members in the German Scout Association Sankt Georg (DPSG) as federal curate for the scout level. When he gave up this task in 1958, he had also significantly shaped the theological development of the DPSG for the next few years, including through publications in the federal newspapers and the book "Der Ungeheure und die Abenteurer".

Spiecker was also active as a publicist for general print media such as Die Zeit or Gong and for radio. His motto was: "Expose the core without damaging the skin".

His presence on the radio was initially limited to participation in discussions and church radio.

From 1960 radio plays by Spiecker were also shown on WDR , some of which were even broadcast as television plays or later appeared on records, such as Der Partisan , directed by Otto Kurth , top-class a. a. cast with Hans Quest (the actor to whom Wolfgang Borchert dedicated his Outside Front Door after the Second World War ) and Eric Schumann .

A year later, Spiecker worked with Bernhard Wicki - as a consultant for the film The Miracle of Malachia . On him z. B. the transfer of the material, which actually comes from the Scottish author Bruce Marshall, back to the Ruhr area of ​​the present.

In the 1960s , Spiecker also published council documents from the Vatican .

In 1962 Spiecker received the order against seriousness . According to the Aachen Carnival Association  , he was "as a humorous, contentious pulpit speaker, publicist and screenwriter a modern descendant of Abraham a Santa Clara ".

Spiecker once said about his journalistic activities:

“ The attention that ponders, traces and opens up perspectives is the first and last work of love. - I am for profundity. But I hate the 'fake beards'. I am for the serious - especially where it shows in the abyss of the funny! - But I hate the conventional cliché of the solemn that spoils the spice of seriousness. "

After a long suffering Rochus Spiecker died in 1968. A letter of condolence was sent by representatives of the Church and others. a. also Willy Brandt , Herbert Wehner , Alfred Nau and Helmut Schmidt .

Post fame

Several tribes of the German Scouting Society Saint Georg bear the name Rochus Spiecker .

Works

Radio plays

  • The Partisan (1974) - also published as a speech record

Fonts

  • Ninotschka: or what is love; Highlights from his literary work . Selected and edited by Knut Erichson. 1986
  • Taken literally , 1979. ISBN 3-429-00591-4
  • Perceiving what is: Ideas for the day, aphorisms, sketches , 1969
  • Concilio ecoménico vaticano II .: Registro de documentos conciliares y esquemas , 1967
  • together with: Marcell Birner, Wunibald Maria Brachthäuser (Ed.): Register for the Council documents. Lucerne - Munich: Rex-Verlag, 1966
  • Jeanette or The Good Despair: Of Defiance, Love and Death. Funkic Impressions , 1964
  • La Ferriere in the summer of 1902 , 1954; also under the title Maria Goretti: The Story of God and Maria Goretti , 1965
  • Boys , 1959 (with Karl Wiehn )
  • Jamboree: 50 Years of Scouting , 1957 (with Karl Wiehn)
  • The Monster and the Adventurer: On the Idea of ​​Scouting (1955)
  • Glosses . 4 volumes
    • The vigilant circles of the eagle , 1969
    • A little malice , 1964
    • The time in the mirror: glosses and impressions , 1964
    • Eyes and the blink of an eye: Monday glosses , 1960

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personal data
SURNAME Spiecker, Rochus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiecker, Johann Wolfgang (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chaplain, publicist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1968