Tobias Brandner
Tobias Brandner ( Chinese 百 牧师 , Cantonese Bai Mushi , * 1965 in Auenstein ) is a Swiss Protestant Reformed pastor and pastor in Stanley Prison in Hong Kong , whose inmates named him "Father Tobias".
Life
Tobias Brandner grew up in Aargau on Auenstein, he attended high school in Aarau , he with the maturity graduated. He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Zurich and did a doctorate in systematic theology . At the same time he worked as a prison chaplain in the prison Pöschwies in Regensdorf . He was elected to the city parliament of Zurich for the Social Democratic Party .
Brandner has lived in Hong Kong as a prison chaplain and university teacher on behalf of Mission 21 since 1996 . First he learned Cantonese , then he began to work at Stanley Maximum Security Prison with 1,400 inmates. He visits prisoners in the workshops and in solitary confinement and campaigns for them. He is also a professor of Western church history and missiology at the Theological Faculty of Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong .
Tobias Brandner is married, has three children and lives with his family on the university campus in Hong Kong.
Publications
Books
- Unity given - lost - striving: thought movements of faith and church constitution. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1996. ISBN 978-3-525-56543-8
- Encounters with God in prison. A practical theology of prison chaplaincy. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2009. ISBN 978-3-374-03029-3 (and Lembeck. ISBN 978-3-874-76588-6 )
items
- On the death of the Bishop of Shanghai. Mediator between Beijing and Rome. Article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Zurich, April 29, 2013
- I see prison as a death experience in many ways. He has been looking after prisoners for 18 years. Everyone has their dark spots, says Tobias Brandner. Der Bund , Saturday interview from April 19, 2014
Web links
- Mission 21 projects in Hong Kong
- Tobias Brandner as a guest on the Swiss TV show Aeschbacher June 24, 2010
- Tobias Brandner as pastor in Hong Kong in the Swiss TV show Reporter May 21, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias BRANDNER. Divinity School of Chung Chi College, CUHK, accessed September 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Auensteiner theologian looks after Hong Kong's felons . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . June 23, 2012 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed September 17, 2017]).
- ↑ In Hong Kong Prisons. A prison chaplain tells. In: ITE - The Magazine. ite-dasmagazin.ch, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
- ^ Doris Brodbeck: Tobias Brandner with a column from Hong Kong in Ref. Press. oeme.ch, January 11, 2010, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Katrin Hafner: The pastor with whom the heavy boys are very gentle. In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 2, 2010, archived from the original on April 17, 2014 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Brandner: On the death of the bishop of Shanghai: mediator between Beijing and Rome . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 29, 2013, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed September 17, 2017]).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brandner, Tobias |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Father Tobias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss theologian and prison chaplain |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Auenstein AG |