Dieter Trautwein

Dieter Trautwein ( born July 30, 1928 in Holzhausen am Hünstein ( today Dautphetal), Circle Biedenkopf; † 9 November 2002 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Protestant theologian and writer and composer of numerous new spiritual songs.

Life

Trautwein studied theology in Marburg, Mainz and Heidelberg. After vicariates in Königstein, Limburg and Bad Nauheim, he was from 1963 to 1970 first owner of the newly created office of the City youth pastor in Frankfurt am Main. 1969 appointed him to the synod of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau provost for Frankfurt. He held until 1988 this office. In 1971 he received his doctorate at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on learning process service as a doctor of theology.

After the end of his tenure as dean was Trautwein chairman and managing director of the Frankfurt Bible Society. Funded by him Bible Museum on Museum Embankment was opened only after his death in 2003.

He was a longtime board member of the German Evangelical Church Council and Chairman of the worship committee of the 6th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver in 1983. During his tenure as provost found in 1975 and 1987 two church days in Frankfurt, he played a leading role. Since the mid- 1960s, he joined with his wife Ursula Trautwein publicly against apartheid in South Africa.

Dieter Trautwein also worked as lyricist and composer of numerous new sacred songs to the public. As editor of collections of songs he promoted especially the ecumenical idea and the international network of churches.

Trautwein received numerous honors, including 1988, the Plaque of Honour of the City of Frankfurt and the first Protestant St. Bartholomew's Medal of the Catholic Church in Frankfurt, 1989, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class and 1990 Hedwig Castle Home medal of the city of Giessen for special contributions to understanding and understanding between people. He was a member of the Ecumenical lyricists and composers group of plant community music eV and the AG music in the Ev. Youth Association, today lyricists and composers group CLOCK.

He is the father of the general superintendent of Berlin, Ulrike Trautwein.

Works

Trautwein created 220 hymns, half of which compositions on his own texts, the other half as transfers from the ecumenical movement. The Protestant hymnal published in 1996 contains the root part seven songs Trautwein.

Hymns

  • Because God appeared in the dead of night, 1963, EC 56
  • You are beautiful living tree of paradise 1974, EG 96
  • Come, Lord, bless us that we are not separate, 1978, EC 170
  • Rays break many of a light, 1976, EC 268 (Text by Anders Frostenson from Swedish )
  • As the deer longs for flowing streams, 1983, EC 278 ( text only, according to Psalm 42 and 43)
  • I will go to my father, in 1976, EC 315 (only melody, lyrics by Luke 15 by Lotte thought the house)
  • Let the root of our conduct be love, EC 417 1986 ( text only the second stanza, first verse of Paul Kaestner 1921, music by Volker Ochs 1971)

Other works

  • Come Lord bless us. Memoirs. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-87476-437-0
  • Oskar Schindler - always new stories. Societäts -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7973-0734-9

Co-editor

  • Basel Mission, Churches and Missions in Germany (ed.) Thuma Mina. International Ecumenical Songbook. Prepared by Dieter Trautwein, Beatrice Aebi, Johanna Linz and Dietrich Werner. Strube, Munich and basileia, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-921946-17-4 ( Strube ) / ISBN 3-85555-045- X ( basileia )
  • World Council of Churches (ed.): Cantate Domino. An ecumenical hymnal. Kassel, Barenreiter 1983, ISBN 3-7618-4994- X
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