Kirchliche Arbeit Alpirsbach

The Church is a foundation work Alpirsbach ecclesiastical law, established in Dusseldorf, which was named after the place of incorporation, the Protestant Alpirsbach Abbey in the Black Forest.

• 2.1 The Gregorian weeks
• 2.2 The Alpirsbacher Antiphonale

History

1933-1945

The Ecclesiastical work Alpirsbach ( KAA ) was founded in 1933 by the Tübingen church music director Richard Golz. It can be understood as part of the resultant in the 1920s and 1930s in both Christian churches Liturgical Movement (or the vocal movement ), the most pressing theological, ecclesial and social problems of the time, including the confrontation with National Socialism, by internal church edit reform of the service sought out. As a first and basic step of the way while the renewal of worship using the then latest historical and liturgical scientific evidence was sought.

In 1933 came the art historian Friedrich Buchholz ( 1902-1967 ) as the leading head added, which brought his knowledge of Gregorian chant as a defining element in the work. Goelz and Buchholz discovered in the liturgy of the hours monks one of the evangelical church lost treasure and in Gregorian chant a great musical world of forms, which should be recovered for the Protestant liturgy as " German Gregorian chant ". The melody of the original Latin chant was changed at some points in favor of the new ( German ) text.

Very soon rallied in Alpirsbach the leaders of the firm Württemberg, one of the Confessing Church -affiliated group of pastors and theologians University. Goelz even hid Jews in his rectory and was therefore arrested in 1944 and detained in the prison camp Welzheim. In 1979, he received and his wife Hilde for the Order of Merit and in 1992 the inclusion in the list of the righteous in the world, the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. The well-known dictum of Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Only he who cries for the Jews may sing Gregorian also " thus misses its target in the CEU and spirit.

1945-1999

1945/46, Goelz tried to convince the evangelical Oberkirchenrat in Stuttgart them to institutionalize the Church as a national church plant work. In the former convent Bebenhausen he began the attempt of a communitarian life, but failed after a few months because neither the state church nor the other members of the KAA wanted to follow this path. Goelz asked for indefinite unpaid leave from the pastorate and began to deal with Orthodox theology and liturgy. This Buchholz also took formal charge of the KAA, which he headed as " Präses " until his death. Formally, the KAA was a club; theologically defended you against any form of institutionalization. Thus, the KAA founded neither a permanent house (as eg the Michael Brotherhood at the monastery Kirchberg did), still wearing their members a special liturgical garb. Buchholz was also the leading figure in the German Gregorian chant and brought in the 1950s and 1960s, the new revisions of the Alpirsbacher Antiphonale out. After his sudden death, first pastor of the Stuttgart Eberhard Weismann, then the Mainz Old Testament Diethelm Michel became chairman of the KAA.

Musically dedicated next and after Goelz and Buchholz some of the leading German Protestant church musician in the CEU, as inter alia Saarbrücken church music director Karl Rahner (1903-1970) and Gerd Zacher. Since the 1990s, the KAA is looking again increased connection to the newer semiological research; inter alia, Godehard Joppich and John Berchmans Goeschl were invited to joint seminars.

Since 1999

Once again by the unexpected death of her Präses Diethelm Michel 1999, the issue of organizational implementation, the KAA was transformed into a foundation. Church President was the Emeritus Senior Church of the EKD, Dr. theol. H.C. Rüdiger Schloz.

German Gregorian chant

The Gregorian weeks

The Ecclesiastical work Alpirsbach oriented in Alpirsbach and other places as Heiligkreuztal, Gernrode, Blaubeuren, Jerichow Loccum, Fiirstenwalde Gregorian weeks from the hard times Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost, as well as summer and autumn weeks. These extend generally about five to eight days and receive their spiritual orientation by

For the latter renowned theologians from Germany and abroad will be invited as guest lecturers.

The Alpirsbacher Antiphonale

In celebration of the Divine Office and the Mass in German language, the KAA since 1935 in a continuous sequence the books and volumes of Alpirsbacher Antiphonale issues. A first series appeared in 1935-1939. After the Second World War F. Buchholz began a revision using the most precise semiological studies; This work was interrupted by his sudden death in 1967. Since 2004, new revisions are the issues of the Alpirsbacher Antiphonale in work, since 2013 these volumes were published in bound form.

The German texts of the Psalms and other biblical texts follow here the Luther Bible: Until his death Buchholz used the revision of 1912, since 2004, the now current output is placed in the version from 1985 is based. For the translation of the Latin hymns and sequences Rudolf Alexander Schröder Buchholz could win.

Currently, the Alpirsbacher Antiphonale consists of the following volumes:

Older series

• The travel blessing (1937 )
• Chants to the fair (so-called " Old measuring " booklet, 1950)
• Order and chants of the Mass (so-called " New measurement " booklet, 1966)
• The Matins (1969 )
• The Lauds (1966 )
• The Lauds (1962 )
• The sixth (1955 )
• The Vespers (1962 )
• The Complet (1950 )
• Christmas (1937, reprint 1982)
• Epiphany (1972 )
• Easter Sunday (1952, reprint 1977)
• Pentecost Sunday (1950, reprint 1974)

New Series

• The Complet - issue for the community (2013 )
• Christmas and Epiphany (2013 )
• Easter ( 2014)
• Pentecost ( 2014)