Winfried Lipscher

Winfried Aloysius Lipscher (born June 7, 1938 in Wartenburg , Warmia ) is a German theologian , interpreter , translator and publicist .

Life

Youth and education

Winfried Lipscher is the son of Franz and Hildegard Lipscher. He attended the Polish elementary school in Barczewo, then worked as an employee of the local city administration. In 1957, the family moved to the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the family reunification and first arrived at the Friedland camp . He passed the examination to become a court-authorized translator for the Polish language in 1962 in Düsseldorf, then attended the grammar school for working people and passed the Abitur examination in 1964. Between 1964 and 1971 he studied theology under Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI ), Karl Rahner and Johann Baptist Metz at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In March 1968 Winfried Lipscher was one of the 160 Catholic signatories of the memorandum of the Bensberger Kreis ; a memorandum on the question of the relationship between Germany and Poland. He completed his theology studies in Münster in 1971 as a graduate theologian.

Profession and positions

From 1971–2003 Winfried Lipscher was employed as an interpreter and translator at the Foreign Office in Bonn and thus worked as a spokesman for the German Embassy in Warsaw for four terms . He acted as an interpreter in almost all negotiations and discussions between the representatives of the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland (since 1990 Republic of Poland). In November 1977 he was present as an interpreter at the meeting of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with the Polish primate and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński .

From 1980 to 1984 Winfried Lipscher worked as press spokesman for the German Poland Institute under the direction of Karl Dedecius in Darmstadt.

Honors

• Knight of the New Year's Eve , awarded in 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland , awarded on July 10, 2003 by President Aleksander Kwaśniewski
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , awarded in December 2017
• Arno Holz Prize presented by the Polish-German Cultural Center in Kętrzyn
• Honorary member of the Borussia Foundation in Olsztyn

Fonts

• Cultural cooperation: Federal Republic of Germany-People's Republic of Poland . German Poland Institute , Darmstadt 1982.
• Youth exchange between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland. A report . German Poland Institute, Darmstadt 1985.
• Barczewo w Europie. Czyli ojczyzną człowieka jest najbliższy człowiek . Borussia Foundation , Olsztyn 2005, ISBN 83-89233-22-3 .

Participation

• with Karl Dedecius , Katja Weintraub , Armin Droß, Wolfgang Grycz (translator): Janusz Korczak : Love the child. A reading book by Erich Dauzenroth and Adolf Hampel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-04585-7 .
• with Kazimierz Brakoniecki : Borussia. Country and people. A literary anthology . (Borussia. Ziemia i ludzie. Antologia literacka) . Borussia Foundation , Olsztyn 1995, ISBN 83-909724-1-7 .
• with Kazimierz Brakoniecki : The face of my home. East Prussia in the mirror of literature with prefaces by Klaus Bednarz , Andrzej Szczypiorski , Nikolaus Ehlert, Kazimira Prunskienė . FA Herbig, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-7766-1948-5 .
• with János Kalmár (photographer): Poland's distant neighbor . Umschau Buchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 978-3-524-67049-2 .
• with Kazimierz Brakoniecki , Oleg Gluschkin: (anthology) Liki rodnoj ziemli. Proizwiedenija rossijskich, niemieckich, polskich i litewskich awtorow . Helbig, Kaliningrad 1999.

Translations

• Catholic University of Lublin : Award of an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities of the Catholic University of Lublin to Karl Dedecius on May 14, 198 7.
• Friedbert Pflüger : Enemies become friends. On the difficulty of the German-Polish neighborhood . Bouvier, Bonn 1993, ISBN 978-3-416-02479-2 .
• Janusz Korczak : Senate of the Mad . Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt / M. 1985, ISBN 978-3-88129-893-3 .
• Kazimierz Majdański : You will be my witnesses ... with a preface by Cardinal Joachim Meisner . Book dispatch Maria aktuell, Mittelbiberach 1995, ISBN 3-930309-12-2 .
• Kazimierz Brakoniecki : Atlantis of the North. (Atlantyda Północy) . Borussia Foundation , Olsztyn 1998, ISBN 978-83-900380-5-6 .
• Jacek Borkowicz: Poles and Jews. Together under one sky . Więź , Warszawa 2000.
• John Paul II : Roman triptych. Meditations . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-451-28244-7 .
• (with wife Brigitte Waterkott-Lipscher) Arno Giese: The cardinal's courier . Fundacja Semper Silesia, Katowice 2005, ISBN 978-83-922334-0-4 .
• Kazimierz Brakoniecki : Warmian Buddha. Warmiński Budda . Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 2007, ISBN 978-83-8923333-2 .
• Wilm Hosenfeld : I try to save everyone. The life of a German officer in letters and diaries . Oficyna Wydawnicza Rytm, Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-83-7399-277-1 .
• Paul Josef Cordes : Helpers don't fall from the sky. Caritas and Spirituality . Wydawnictwo Jedność, Kielce 2009, ISBN 978-83-7442-947-4 .
• Alfons Nossol : Luck in Love-Review of my life . EOS Verlag, Sankt Ottilien 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7434-4 .
• Anna Morawska : Dietrich Bonhoeffer . A Christian in the German Empire . (with foreword by Tadeusz Mazowiecki ), Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-402-12931-9 .
• Rüdiger von Fritsch : The thing with Tom. An escape in Germany . (with foreword by Hans-Dietrich Genscher ). Do wolności stamp. Ucieczka z Niemiec do Niemiec . Oficyna Wydawnicza Atut. Wrocław 2012. ISBN 978-83-7432-853-1 .
• Alfons Nossol, Krzysztof Zyzik (ed.): Joy in reconciliation. German-Polish bridges . EOS Verlag, Sankt Ottilien 2013, ISBN 978-3-8306-7640-9 .
• Michał Olszewski, Rafał Żytyniec: From Lyck to Ełk. Walks through the capital of Masuria . Muzeum Historyczne w Ełku, Ełk 2017, ISBN 978-83-63838-04-1 .

literature

• Winfried Lipscher: Returning Home? . In: 30. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1999 , pp. 246–248.

Web links

• Literature by and about Winfried Lipscher in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Lipscher, Winfried in: Index theologicus
• Winfried Lipscher at deutsche-und-polen.de, project of the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg , Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (2002)
• Curriculum Vitae, Winfried Lipscher (Polish)
• Lipscher, Winfried in: Polish personal database on baza-nazwisk.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the awards from December 1, 2017. The Federal President, December 1, 2017, accessed on December 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Janusz Korczak: To love the child. A reader. German Poland Institute, accessed on December 1, 2014 .