Kurt Marti

Kurt Marti ( born January 31, 1921 in Bern ) is a Swiss pastor and writer.

Life

Kurt Marti was created in 1921 as the son of a notary. He had an older brother a few years Hans Marti.

He attended along with Friedrich Dürrenmatt Freies Gymnasium Bern. Subsequently, he graduated first two semesters at the Law Faculty of the University of Bern, before he decided on a study of Protestant theology. This he pursued first at the University of Bern, then (1945-1946) at the University of Basel, where he was influenced by Karl Barth. He was in WS 1943/44, Präses, then actuary of the fraternity Concordia.

1947-1948 Marti spent on behalf of the World Council of Churches a year as a prisoner of war minister in postwar Paris. After that, he was a pastor in the Bernese Rohrbach BE. After university degree and the ordination in 1950 he married Hanni Morgenthaler from Langenthal. In the following years of marriage were given to three sons and a daughter. 1950-1960 Marti officiated as priest in Lower Lenz. Motivated by Max Steiner and Jörg Rychner, and also to avoid a midlife crisis, he started there newspaper articles, writing poems and stories. The first prose tapes emerged.

From 1961 to 1983 he was pastor at the Nydeggkirche in Bern. He was involved in the fight against nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants, the U.S. intervention in Vietnam, and was co-founder of the developmental organization Berne Declaration and the 2002 resolution dissident group of authors Olten. Most have inspired theological and Dorothee kettle holes, which he knows him by Karl Barth since the 1960s.

1972 refused to grant him the government of the canton of Bern, for political reasons, a professor of homiletics at the Faculty of the University of Bern Evangelical theological, although he had been nominated for election. This felt as Marti Award; the right conferred on him by the University honorary doctorate as a little revenge. Since 1983 he has worked as a freelance writer. 2007 his wife died Hanni Marti- Morgenthaler.

In his sermons and essays, poems and aphorisms to Marti proves to be a committed and critical writer. Some of his lyrics were set to music as a "new spiritual songs ". With the autobiographical book A pot full time 1928-1948 he has 2008, according to his own statement, published his last work. As part of the Fall Meeting of the site ecumenism, mission and development cooperation ( OeME ) of the Reformed Churches Bern -Jura -Solothurn he has been the emergence of his text " A nachapostolisches confession " explained in an interview with Albert Rieger. This text is the first time in the band West: Poems (p. 92 ), published in 1980 Luchterhand -Verlag.

Kurt Marti 's pre- located since 2006 in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

Awards and honors

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • Boulevard bikini. poems; Woodcuts by Willy Leiser. Suburban Press, Biel 1959.
  • Republican poems. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1959. expanded new edition: Luchterhand, Neuwied 1971.

Prose and essays

  • Switzerland and its writers - the writers and their Switzerland. ECC, Zurich 1966.
  • Abratzky or The Little Brock Cottage. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1971.
  • The heart of the hedgehog. Clock Tower, Bern 1972, ISBN 3-7296-0024-9.
  • For example: Bern 1972 A political diary.. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-472-86334- X. Paperback edition as: Political Diary. Poppy, Gütersloh 1977, ISBN 3-579-03975- X.

Theological texts

  • Dialogue Christian - Marxist. A conversation ( with Konrad Farner ). The text to the movie by Richard Dindo; Verlagsgenossenschaft, Zurich 1972
  • Crossing the line: a Christian in dealing with culture, literature and art. Neukirchener, Neukirchen 1976, ISBN 3-7887-0490- X.
  • "Man is not for Christianity there"; A debate about God and the world between a Christian and an agnostic. ( with Robert Maechler ). Lutheran publishing house, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7859-0425-0 ( ISBN formally wrong ).
  • God's survey: 1 John today. Radius, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-87173-620-1.
  • The Gospel of Mark, designed for the community. Jordan, Zurich ( first edition 1967), 1985, ISBN 3-906561-03-8.
  • Gentle and accurate. Reflections, stories, poems, sermons. Evangelical publishing house, Berlin, 1985, ASIN: B001NV3R5K
  • The convivial deity. A discourse. Radius, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Ally God: Try to Moses, 2 1-14. Jordan, Zurich ( first edition 1972), 1992, ISBN 3-906561-25-9.
  • Laughing, crying, loving: encouragements to life. Radius, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-87173-699-6. reprinted as: So that the man finally becomes what he could be. Benziger, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-545-24116-5. once republished as: Where to take an ethics: debate over reason and faith. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-312-00293-1.

Werkausgabe

  • Selection of works in 5 volumes. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1996.

Settings of poems

  • Sometimes we know God's will. 1966, set to music by Felicitas Kukuck 1967
  • The sky, that is. 1971, set to music by Winfried Heurich 1980
  • After visiting the radioactive cloud. 1987, set to music by Reinhard Fehling 1988
  • Kurt Marti Suite. Music to poetry catechism questions, Hotel Jesus, the anointing, Easter morning, please, worship, invocations, wholeness, Light Beam, Protestant Church Music, Predigtnot and walking along, set to music and premiered by Chris Walden Big Band and Choir 2007
  • Pink Loui. Four choral songs in 10 languages ​​available on four poems by Kurt Marti, 2006/2007, set to music by Heinz Holliger. Premiere: September 15, 2009 Luzern, Franciscan Church (CH) Lucerne Festival 2009 Conductor:. Heinz Holliger. SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart. Chorus: Denis Comtet.
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