Stephan Baier

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Stephan Baier (born July 15, 1965 in Roding ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian , journalist and non-fiction author.

Life

Origin and education

Baier comes from a family expelled from the Sudetenland , whose father's side comes from South Bohemia and his mother's side from the Egerland . He studied - after graduation in 1984 at the Robert Schuman School in Upper Palatinate Cham - Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg , the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the University of Munich (graduate theologian in 1990 with a thesis on "The understanding of freedom of the instructions of the CDF 'Libertatis nuntius' and 'Libertatis conscientia' ”).

Journalism and political engagement

From 1991 to 1994 he was press spokesman for the diocese of Augsburg . In 1992 he received the promotion award for literature and journalism of the Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft in Munich (laudation: Bernd Posselt ), in 1999 in Munich the promotion award of the Hanns Seidel Foundation for young journalists, and in 2005 the Leopold Kunschak press promotion award in Vienna .

Since 1980 he has been active on a voluntary basis in the Pan-European Movement : until 1995 in Germany (including as the regional chairman of the Pan-European Youth Bavaria), then in Austria (including as Vice-President of the Pan-European Movement in Austria ). From 1994 to 1999 he worked as press spokesman and parliamentary assistant to Otto von Habsburg (CSU) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Baier has been working as a correspondent for the national, catholic newspaper Die Tagespost since 1999, responsible for Austria, Southeastern Europe and European politics. Since then he has reported for Die Tagespost , but also from around 20 countries in Europe as well as from Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Libya, Tunisia, Nigeria, India and the Philippines. Since 2007 he has also been an author and columnist for Vatican Magazine .

In 2002, together with Eva Demmerle, he published an authorized biography about Otto von Habsburg, which has since appeared in several editions (most recently the 6th extended edition in 2012) and in translations (Italian, Croatian, Hungarian and French).

He was u. a. Speaker at the Institute for Religiosity in Psychiatry & Psychotherapy in Vienna.

Private

Baier is married to the artist Maria Bernadette Baier and has five children: Linus (born 1992), Balthasar (born 1994), Sophia (born 1996), Theresa (born 2000) and Timotheus (born 2004). Since 1994 he has lived mainly in Graz (Styria).

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • with Carl Gustaf Ströhm : Church in battle. Christian awakening in Russia and Ukraine . With a foreword by Josef Stimpfle and pictures by Traudl Bühler, Universitas, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-8004-1194-6 .
  • Eastward expansion. Europe's greatest challenge . Stocker, Graz a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-7020-0829-2 . Croatian edition: Prosirenje Europe na istok , Pan Liber, Osijek u. a. 1999, ISBN 953-6285-35-5 .
  • Which Europe? Superstate or legal community . Introduced by Otto von Habsburg, Amalthea, Vienna a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-85002-455-5 . Croatian edition: Kakva Europe? Superdrzava ili pravna zajednica , Hrvatska Paneuropska Unija, Varazdin 2001, ISBN 953-6775-32-8 .
  • with Eva Demmerle : Otto von Habsburg. The biography . With a foreword by Walburga Habsburg Douglas , Amalthea , Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85002-486-5 . 6th revised and expanded edition 2012: Otto von Habsburg. 1912–2011 , with a letter of condolence from Pope Benedict XVI. and a foreword by Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Amalthea, Vienna 2012. French edition: Otto de Habsbourg. De l'Empire à l 'Europe , Éditions Racine, Bruxelles 2002, ISBN 2-87386-291-2 ; Croatian edition: Otto von Habsburg. Zivotopis , Hrvatska Paneuropska Unija, Zagreb 2005, ISBN 953-6921-11-1 ; Hungarian edition: Habsburg Ottó. Élete , Európa Könyvkiadó, Budapest 2003, ISBN 963-07-7275-2 ; Italian edition: Otto d'Asburgo. La biografia autorizzata , Il Cerchio, Rimini 2006, ISBN 88-8474-132-7 .
  • Childless. Europe in the demographic trap . MM, Aachen 2004, ISBN 3-928272-16-0 .
  • As editor according to with Walburga Douglas: Otto von Habsburg. A sovereign European (Festschrift for his 85th birthday), Amalthea, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85002-402-4
  • As editor according to with Rainer Beckmann and Mechthild Löhr: Children: Desire and Reality. Children and families in an aging society , Sinus-Verlag, Krefeld 2006, ISBN 3-88289-810-0 .
  • The soul of Europe. From Sinn und Sendung des Abendlands , Fe-Medienverlag, Kißlegg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86357-194-8 .

Book chapters (selection)

  • Balkan myths and European fairy tales , in: Andreas Raab (ed.), Opfer, Täter, Tatenlose , Gerhard-Hess-Verlag, Ulm 1995, ISBN 3-87336-216-3 , pp. 152–161.
  • The history of the Pan-Europa movement , in: RN Coudenhove-Kalergi , Pan-Europa , new edition 1998, Paneuropa-Verlag, Augsburg 1998, pp. A1-A21.
  • Europe's expansion , in: Franz Amberger (ed.), Grenzenlos , Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2000, ISBN 3-931091-61-9 , pp. 178-184.
  • Which Europe? , in: Carl Paul Wieland (ed.), Austria in Europe , Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85002-473-3 , pp. 132-144.
  • Chances and Limits of the Christian-Islamic Dialogue , in: Georg Kaster (Ed.), Religion - Guarantor or Threat of Peace? City of Goch, Goch 2006, ISBN 3-925747-06-0 , pp. 43-68.
  • Christianity as a factor that creates identity for Europe , in: Franz Lackner , Wolfgang Mantl (ed.), Identity and Open Horizons. Festschrift for Egon Kapellari , Styria Verlag, Vienna a. a. 2006, ISBN, 978-3-222-13215-5, pp. 1017-1029.
  • Man has a right to the truth - and a right to God , in: Josef Kreiml u. a., Committed to the truth (Festschrift for Bishop Kurt Krenn ), Ares Verlag, Graz 2006, ISBN 978-3-902475-24-4 , pp. 146–160.
  • Otto von Habsburg as heir to Coudenhove-Kalergis , in: Coudenhove-Kalergi-Stiftung (Ed.), Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. Selected writings on Europe , NWV, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7083-0418-2 , pp. 543-550.
  • Against the discrimination of families , in: Christlichsoziale Initiative (Ed.), Building Bridges , Residenz Verlag, St.Pölten 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-3094-0 , pp. 109–120.
  • Causes and consequences of the demographic crisis in Europe , in: Franz Breid (Ed.), Europa und das Christianentum , Christiana Verlag, Stein aR 2008, ISBN 978-3-7171-1149-8 , pp. 151–172.
  • Benedict and Islam , in: Hartmut Constien u. a., Benedict XVI. Servant of God and the People (Festschrift for the 10th anniversary of his papal election), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7954-3012-2 , pp. 80–87.
  • Joseph Roth , in: Stefan Meetschen, Alexander Pschera (eds.), Poeten, Priester und Propheten , FE-Medienverlag, Kisslegg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86357-152-8 , pp. 187-195.

Newspaper and magazine articles

So far, Baier has published around 6,500 articles by name in daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines, most of them in Die Tagespost , but also in: VATICAN Magazin , alle welt, Kontektiven , Neue Bildpost, Dolomiten , Schwäbische Zeitung , Die Presse u. v. a.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vanessa Conze: The Europe of the Germans. Ideas of Europe in Germany between imperial tradition and western orientation (1920–1970) . Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-486-57757-0 , p. 188.
  2. ↑ Speakers: Stephan Baier , rpp-institut.org, accessed on September 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Baier, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian, journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Roding