Werner Sprenger

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Werner Sprenger (born November 9, 1923 in Danzig ; † May 24, 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer and meditation teacher.

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Werner Sprenger grew up in Berlin. In 1941 he was drafted into World War II while still at high school and as a young man experienced war and imprisonment.

After his return in 1948 he took over telephone services and other odd jobs for a living. He studied medicine and psychology, German and comparative religion and worked with drug addicts and the unemployed. Writing later became his main activity.

After the world premiere of his first play “Are you looking for Magdalena?” In 1958 at the Kieler Woche , the play was taken over by the Kleiner Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt (Theaterdruck S. Fischer Verlag Frankfurt). Werner Sprenger was later mainly published by Nie-Nie-Sagen-Verlag in Konstanz , where he lived in the 1970s to 1990s.

In poems and prose texts, Werner Sprenger repeatedly advocated social justice, peace and freedom. In the late 1970s, columns by him appeared in the journal Concrete .

A defining theme in his work became death, with which he was repeatedly confronted in his life: through the war, through the suicide of a loved one, through a life-threatening heart attack, which became a turning point in his life with a deep reflection on the Preciousness of the unique life.

This being affected by death found expression in his books and thus led to cooperation with hospice associations and initiatives for suicide prophylaxis such as the working group Life in Baden-Württemberg.

Several stays in India in monasteries and ashrams and self-exploration with various psychotherapy methods led to the establishment of INTA meditation and seminars at home and abroad in the 1970s . In the INTA meditation the knowledge of Eastern spiritual traditions and the fundamental insights of humanistic psychology are combined to form a holistic meditation. The INTA meditation is in its essence dialogical: only in the encounter with another person does a person find himself - that is the basic principle of this meditation. With his central concern "I want to encourage people to be who they don't yet dare to be", Werner Sprenger has helped countless people to find their way through his books and seminars and has accompanied them on their way .

Werner Sprenger was a member of the Association of German Writers. His radio plays received awards and were produced and broadcast by various broadcasters. “Three serious cases of charity” received the 1983 radio play award from the German Academy of Performing Arts. The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation DRS broadcast this radio play in a dialect version. Deutsche Welle took over the radio play “Partly cheerful” “for the purpose of spreading the German language and culture through non-European broadcasters”. Poems and texts by Werner Sprenger have been included in school books and anthologies.

Works

  • Secret paths to me - through you to me - through me to you . 15th edition, Herder, Freiburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-06992-5 .
  • Every day is new life . Herder, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-31256-4 .
  • Eye glances, poetry and prose . Freiburg 1979, 9th edition 2001
  • Poems to memorize . Konstanz 1982, 8th edition 1998
  • Stable dreams and other realities . Poems, Freiburg 1979, 5th edition 1998
  • Secret paths to the I vol. I meditation poems . Konstanz 1979, 14th edition 1998;
  • Applied poems . Constance 1997
  • Secret paths to the I vol. II happiness in life through INTA meditation . Konstanz 1979, 14th revised edition 1997
  • Breath the thermometer when you are cold . Poems and prose, Konstanz 1984, 4th edition 1996
  • Seduction to life, meditation texts . Konstanz 1987, 3rd edition 1996
  • Happy poems to memorize . Constance 1995
  • The day my death died . Constance 1995
  • Death poems to memorize . Constance 1995
  • Love poems to memorize . Constance 1994
  • And after death? Nothing? Rebirth? Live on? Constance 1994
  • Do you love yourself Konstanz 1989, 3rd edition 1994
  • Tomorrow? - Better: live today . Constance 1993
  • Extinguish the fire tulips . Radio plays and poems, Konstanz 1993
  • More luck than mind? Aphorisms, Konstanz 1992
  • Truths about the lie . Aphorisms, Konstanz 1992
  • To be satisfied by someone else's mouth? Constance 1989
  • The cave book . Constance 1988
  • Ashes and rebirth . Constance 1988
  • Inciting happiness . Poems and prose, Konstanz 1981, 7th edition 1988
  • All roads through the desert lead to oases . Aphorisms, Freiburg 1978, 6th edition 1987
  • A lion comes flying, an anti-autobiography . Constance 1985
  • Accidentally lucky? Misfortune from understanding? Freiburg 1978, 8th edition 1984
  • An oak tree planted in a flower pot . Aphorisms, Freiburg 1978, 4th edition 1983
  • Are we still alive? Emergency texts, Constance 1983
  • Do the hungry need poetry? Berlin 1972, 6th edition 1981
  • That happiness is completely different . Constance 1981
  • Review of a goodbye . Konstanz 1978, 5th edition 1981

literature

  • Happiness cannot be thought . Conversation with Paul O. Pfister, in: Kommunikation . No. 39, January 1988, Zurich
  • Atina Haberkern: Meditation is about therapy . Constance 1996.
  • Helga J. Wolfrum: When the soul takes a deep breath - With the INTA meditation to the self . Constance 1997.
  • To live what we know . in: On the trail of the essentials . Basel Psychotherapy Days 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Sprenger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and meditation teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2009
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau