Thomas Astan

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Thomas Astan SDB (born September 15, 1942 in Schmallenberg - Wormbach , maiden name: Horst Gnacke ) is a German religious priest and former actor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Astan went into the acting business. From 1967 to 1991 he played in a number of German films and television series and was a director at various theaters. A friend's AIDS illness brought the actor back to faith. Astan started a new life in the late 1980s. In addition to his work, he studied German, theater studies, psychology and art history. This was followed by a novitiate with the Salesians of Don Bosco and studying theology in Rome . In 1996 Astan was ordained a Catholic priest and then went to Bonn . In 1999 he took over for the Archdiocese of Berlin artists pastoral care in the German capital Berlin and managed in this function the Sunday Artist worship of the Catholic Academy Church of St. Thomas Aquinas in Berlin from 1999 to January 2015. He was also in the Guardini Foundation committed.

In January 2015, Astan announced that he had resigned his post of artist pastor with immediate effect in the “dissent about the Catholic leadership and organization of the artists' Ash Wednesday”.

Thomas Astan was bid farewell there on February 1, 2015 as chaplain of the parish Maria under the cross in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.

Astan has lived in Benediktbeuern Abbey since February 2015 , where he works as a pedagogue and pastor in the Salesian Education Center for Environment and Culture .

He is still the first chairman of the Impulse für die Straßenkinder e. V.

Filmography (selection)

CD

  • Thomas Astan, Thomas Sauer: The Way of the Cross op. 29 (by Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)), CD, Pool Music & Media Service GmbH (2002).

Individual evidence

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