Ulrich Woronowicz

Ulrich Woronowicz (born January 26, 1928 in Schimonken (1938–1945 Schmidtsdorf , today Polish: Szymonka) in the Sensburg / Southeast Prussia district ; † December 7, 2011 ) was a German Protestant theologian , author and songwriter.

biography

Woronowicz grew up as the son of Karl Woronowicz, pastor of the Confessing Church . In Stallupönen (1938-1946 Ebenrode , today in Russian: Nesterow) he attended elementary school and grammar school from 1935. In 1944 he was a naval helper in Memel and Swinoujscie . In 1946 he passed his Abitur in Rendsburg .

Until 1951, Woronowicz studied Protestant theology in Rostock and Berlin. From 1952 he worked as a pastor, first in Buchholz near Pritzwalk and from 1964 at the Marienkirche Berlin , then as a pastor in Wittenberge . In May 1969 he received his doctorate from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle on the subject of "The function of the hit " in society and the church as a doctor of theology. From 1983 to 1993 Woronowicz was superintendent of the Havelberg / Wilsnack parish .

Even as a student, Woronowicz participated as an LDP representative in the student opposition to state interference. During his activity as a theologian in the GDR , he turned against the state-operated erosion of the church's legal position and the limited opportunities for church criticism. In a lecture in 1973 he warned the church against “subordination to the given conditions” and the assumption that the realities of the GDR had a claim to eternity. Instead, he asked the church to have the courage to change the existing society. He was also an active advocate for human rights issues. Woronowicz was monitored by the Stasi, which from 1964 prevented his immigration to Berlin and his habilitation . In 1983 he published the samizdat manifesto "Marxism as a doctrine of salvation". In the 70s and 80s he also wrote socially critical song texts. In 2014 the piece of music "Wo ........ (The White Raven)" was composed for 10-string guitar in memory of him.

After his retirement in 1993, Woronowicz lived in Berlin as a theologian, canon lawyer and religious philosopher.

Works (selection)

The function of the hit in society and its importance for the image of man in Christian preaching. Hall 1969
Variable value systems as the basis of interpersonal relationships , Verlag Heinz-Gerhard Greve Wiesbaden, 1985. ISBN 3-925259-00-7 (New edition: LIT Verlag Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3505-7 ; also as an e-book)
- Variable Value Systems As Basis Of Interpersonal Relations (English translation: David Greve), E-Book ( PDF file ), 2010
Evangelical Church of St. Nikolai Bad Wilsnack. Regensburg: Schnell and Steiner, 1994
Socialism as a doctrine of salvation , 1st edition 2000, Editions La Colombe, Bergisch Gladbach, ISBN 3-929351-10-2
Diary 1958 to 1960. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89812-790-5
Das Deutschlandlied , e-book (PDF file), 2010
Mercedes , e-book (PDF file), 2010
The Rescue , e-book (PDF file), 2010
Justice Lost , eBook (PDF), 2010
Have a good day , e-book (PDF file), 2010
Bernstein , E-Book (PDF file), 2010
The bitter end of colleague Hopke , e-book (PDF file), 2010
Encounter with the past , e-book (PDF file), 2010
The story of Bodo who drank nitrous solution (lyrics)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ehrhart Neubert : "From the freedom of a Christian". Protestant roots of resistant behavior. In: Ulrike Poppe , Rainer Eckart, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (eds.): Between self-assertion and adaptation: Forms of resistance and opposition in the GDR. Berlin 1995, p. 228.
↑ Ehrhart Neubert: What were the opposition, resistance and dissidence in the GDR? To categorize political opposition. In: Ulrich Hermann (ed.): Protestating youth. Weinheim and Munich 2002, p. 291.
↑ Ehrhart Neubert: "From the freedom of a Christian man". Protestant roots of resistant behavior. In: Ulrike Poppe, Rainer Eckart, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (eds.): Between self-assertion and adaptation: Forms of resistance and opposition in the GDR. Berlin 1995, p. 241.
↑ SAMIZDAT. Alternative culture in Central and Eastern Europe. The 60s to 80s. (Exhibition catalog). Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2000, p. 173; Günther Heydemann, Gunther Mai, Werner Müller (eds.): Revolution and transformation in the GDR 1989/90. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999, p. 68.

personal data
SURNAME	Woronowicz, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and book author
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shimonken , Sensburg district / Southeast Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 2011

[Neubert_1995,_S._228-1] Ehrhart Neubert : "From the freedom of a Christian". Protestant roots of resistant behavior. In: Ulrike Poppe , Rainer Eckart, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (eds.): Between self-assertion and adaptation: Forms of resistance and opposition in the GDR. Berlin 1995, p. 228.

[2] Ehrhart Neubert: What were the opposition, resistance and dissidence in the GDR? To categorize political opposition. In: Ulrich Hermann (ed.): Protestating youth. Weinheim and Munich 2002, p. 291.

[3] Ehrhart Neubert: "From the freedom of a Christian man". Protestant roots of resistant behavior. In: Ulrike Poppe, Rainer Eckart, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (eds.): Between self-assertion and adaptation: Forms of resistance and opposition in the GDR. Berlin 1995, p. 241.

[4] SAMIZDAT. Alternative culture in Central and Eastern Europe. The 60s to 80s. (Exhibition catalog). Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2000, p. 173; Günther Heydemann, Gunther Mai, Werner Müller (eds.): Revolution and transformation in the GDR 1989/90. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999, p. 68.