Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz

Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz (* June 27, 1944 in Belgard at the Persante, † December 17, 1999 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German church historian and director of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain. She was co-editor of the Church and Israel ( 1986-1993 ) and the series of works on ecclesiastical history. She became famous especially by their detection antijudaistischer trends in Christian theology.

Life

Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz was born into a family originating from Riga and grew up after aborted flight and expulsion in Großgoltern, a village near Hannover, Osnabrück and Loccum. After graduation and a half years as a nurse, she studied musicology, Latin, philosophy and Protestant theology since 1963 in Göttingen since 1965 in Tübingen. There they shifted the focus of musicology on theology and a doctorate in 1972 with a historic church work for a doctor of theology, then was an assistant of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Eberhard -Karls- University Tübingen, later Repetentin the Protestant Foundation in Tübingen.

In 1983 Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz as director of studies at the Protestant Academy Arnoldshain whose line they took over in 1996. In 1984 she was ordained as a pastor in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, 1990 Habilitation at the Department of Protestant Theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main for historical theology and appointed extraordinary professor in 1997. She was honored for her efforts to Christian-Jewish understanding with the Edith Stein Prize 1999.

Work focuses on

Since 1987 she was a member of the working group, Jews and Christians at the German Protestant Church Congress, from 1980 to 1997, the Commission EKD Church and Judaism. Since 1985 she was a member, deputy chairman since 1988 of the Evangelical Association for the Ecclesiastical History, whose business led them to the last. 1988/89 she was a member of the Preparatory Committee to focus on "The Community of Women and Men in the Church " the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany, then a member of the preparatory committee from 1992 to 1996 member and chairman of the EKD Commission promote theological research on women.

Their main areas of work were the Ecclesiastical History, especially the history of theological science and the Protestant theological faculties, the relationship between Jews and Christians, the Feminist Theology and Theological women's studies. In the session work of the Academy provided them for several years and the work area music.

According to her the Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz Prize is named, the eV from the Association for the Advancement of Feminist Theology in research and teaching, which is awarded Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and the Protestant Academy Arnoldshain.

Works

  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: Nazism and churches. Religious policy of the Party and State to 1935 ( Tübingen writings on social and contemporary history 5), Dusseldorf 1974 ( edited version of the dissertation. Party, state and churches in the Third Reich materials to Nazi religious policy until 1935, Tübingen 1972).
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: Roots of Anti-Semitism in Luther's theological anti-Judaism, in: Heinz Kremers (ed. ) in collaboration with Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz and Bertold Klappert, The Jews and Martin Luther - Martin Luther and the Jews. History, historical impact, challenge, Neukirchen, 1985, 21987, 351-367.
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: The ratio of Protestant theology and science of Judaism during the Weimar Republic, in: Walter grave, Julius H. Schoeps (ed.), Jews in the Weimar Republic (Studies on the history of ideas 6), Stuttgart and Bonn 1986 153-178; English under the title: The Relationship in between Protestant Theology and Jewish Studies falling on the Weimar Republic, in: Otto Dov Kulka, Paul R. Mendes - Flohr (ed.), Judaism and Christianity under the Impact of National Socialism, Jerusalem 1987, 133 - 150
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: repressed past that beset us. Feminist Theology in the responsibility for the story, Munich 1988 ( with essays by Jutta Flatters, Dieter Georgi, Eveline Goodman - Thau, Susannah Heschel, Catherine of Kellenbach, Luise Schottroff, Bernd and Marie -Theres Wacker, by Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz in the issuing Post: Feminist theology without anti-Judaism, 12-53 ).
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: Protestant academic theology and racist ideology in the era of National Socialism. Gerhard Kittel's lecture, " The emergence of Judaism and the emergence of the Jewish question " from 1936, in: Günter Brakelmann, Martin Rosowski (ed.), anti-Semitism. From religious hatred of Jews on racial ideology, Göttingen, 1989, 52-75.
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz and Gerda Stuchlik eds: Women and Fascism in Europe. The fascist body (Women in History and Society 6) Pfaffenweiler 1990.
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz and Gerda Stuchlik Edited: College and National Socialism. History of Science and operating as a theme of contemporary history ( Arnoldshainerstraße Texts 66), Frankfurt aM 1990.
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: Josel of Rosheim ': Jews and Christians in the time of the Reformation, in: Church and Israel 6, 1991, 3-16 ( habilitation lecture on May 9, 1990).
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz Editor: The Protestant Churches and the SED state - an issue Ecclesiastical History ( Arnoldshainerstraße Texts 77), Frankfurt aM 1993.
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz and Carsten Nicolaisen Edited: Theological Faculties in National Socialism, work on Ecclesiastical History B 18, Göttingen 1993
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: Christian anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism. Theology and church programs German Christians ( Arnoldshainerstraße texts 85), Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz: Reception and discussion of the gender category in the theological science, in: Hadumod Bussmann, Renate Hof (Eds.), genus. On gender differences in cultural studies, Stuttgart 1995, 60-112.
  • Leonore Siegele - Wenschkewitz and Doron Kiesel Editor: The Enlightenment notwithstanding. Anti-Semitism and political culture in Germany ( Arnoldshainerstraße texts 100), Frankfurt am Main 1998
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