Uwe Siemon-Netto

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Uwe Siemon-Netto (born October 25, 1936 in Leipzig ) is a German journalist and Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

Siemon-Netto began his career as a journalist at Westfalenpost in 1956 . In 1958 he moved to the American news agency Associated Press , for which he worked for four years and in 1961 reported for four months on the construction of the Berlin Wall. From 1962 to 1969, Siemon-Netto was the correspondent for the foreign service of the Axel-Springer-Verlag in London, New York and Asia. He experienced the Six Day War in Jordan . From 1965 to 1969 he was a war reporter in Vietnam . From 1969 to 1973 he was Stern's North America correspondent and then deputy editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Morgenpost for two years . He then wrote as a freelance author for numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He also taught at the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg .

In 1986, Siemon-Netto began studying theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago , from which he graduated in 1988 with a Master of Arts . In 1992 he received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) from Boston University in the dual discipline of theology and the sociology of religion . In 1996 he completed a postdoctoral year at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton , New Jersey , where he researched the relationship between journalism and theology. From 2000 to 2005 he was the department head for religious questions at the United Press International news agency in Washington, DC , then director of the Concordia Seminary . There he founded the Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life in 2006 , which was closed by Concordia Seminary in 2009 for budget reasons, after which he moved it to Concordia University Irvine in Irvine , California and then to Capistrano Beach , Orange County , California in October 2009 misplaced. In 2013, Siemon-Netto gave up the management of the center, but he remains connected to him as a former founding director.

In the context of the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 onwards , Siemon-Netto criticized the EKD and called for the evangelization of refugees.

Siemon-Netto lives with his British wife Gillian in Southern California and France.

Awards

Fonts

  • The Acquittal of God: A Theology for Vietnam Veterans . Pilgrim Press, New York 1990; Reprint: Wipf & Stock, 2008.
  • Luther as a pioneer of Hitler? To the story of a prejudice . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1993, ISBN 3-579-02203-2 .
    • New edition: The invented Luther. Against the cliché of "Hitler's pioneer" . Lutherische Buchhandlung Harms, Groß Oesingen 1999, ISBN 3-86147-173-6 .
    • English: The fabricated Luther. The Rise and Fall of the Shirer Myth . Concordia Publ. House, Saint Louis, 1995; 2nd edition: The fabricated Luther: refuting Nazi connections and other modern myths . 2007, ISBN 978-0-7586-0855-0 .
  • One Incarnate Truth: Christianity's Answer to Spiritual Chaos . Concordia, 2002.
  • Duc: A reporter's love for the wounded people of Vietnam . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013, ISBN 978-1-4826-9280-8 .
    • German: Duc, the German: My Vietnam. Why the wrong ones won . Brunnen Verlag, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7655-2024-2 .
    • Triumph of the Absurd: A reporter's love for the abandoned people of Vietnam . NRP Books, Corona CA 2015 (third edition by Duc ), ISBN 978-1-945500-00-8 .
    • Duc: un regard allemand sur le Vietnam 1965–1972. Triomphe de l'absurde en Indochine . Indes Savantes, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-84654-407-8 .
  • Griewatsch: The lout from the Leipzig air raid shelter. A vita . Fontis-Verlag, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-03848-038-9 .
  • Luther, teacher of resistance . Fontis, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-03848-092-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ israelnetz.com (PDF)
  2. ^ Duc, the German , accessed on September 23, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Award for pro-columnist Siemon-Netto , accessed on February 10, 2014
  4. ^ Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life (CLTPL) is Reopened ( Memento March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed March 17, 2014
  5. ↑ Uwe Siemon-Netto: A new politically incorrect vocabulary: Mission , kath.net , October 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Siemon-Netto: Migration of Nations: A Great Opportunity for the Church , idea , August 31, 2015
  7. ↑ Uwe Siemon-Netto: German-British married couple: "They accepted me, the young German" . one day , June 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Siemon-Netto, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig