Dieter Trautwein
- Frankfurter Bibelgesellschaft
- Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag
- Bartholomäus-Medaille
- Bundesverdienstkreuz
- Hedwig-Burgheim-Medaille
Dieter Trautwein (30 July 1928 – 9 November 2002) was a German Protestant theologian and writer of numerous Christian hymns of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL).
Biography
Born in Holzhausen am Hünstein (today Dautphetal), Trautwein studied theology in Marburg, Mainz and Heidelberg. After several postings as a vicar in Königstein, Limburg and Bad Nauheim, he served from 1963 to 1970 in positions involving him with the training of new ministers in Frankfurt am Main. In 1969 the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau appointed him as provost for Frankfurt. He would continue in this position until 1988. He received his Doctorate of Theology in 1971 from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation dealing with the changing form of worship.
After the end of his term as provost, Trautwein became the chairman and manager of the Frankfurter Bibelgesellschaft. He played a leading role in the planning and construction of the Bibelmuseum which opened after his death in 2003 on the Museumsufer.
He was for a long time a member of the presidum[check spelling] of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag and chairman of the worship committee of the 6th Conference of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver in 1983. During his time as provost two Kirchentage took place in Frankfort (in 1975 and 1987), which he worked tirelessly to organize. He was known throughout the ecumenical movement as a vocal critic of apartheid in South Africa, accompanied by his wife Ursula.
Dieter Trautwein was also known to the public for his work in modernizing Christian music and worship in the Evangelical Church in Germany. As editor of hymn collections he brought to German liturgy works from churches around the world and networked with the ecumenical movement to bring German music to the world stage.
Trautwein received numerous rewards and distinctions for his work, most notably receiving honours from the civic government of Frankfort and being the first Protestant to receive Bartholomäus-Medaille bestowed by the Catholic Church in Frankfurt in 1988, receiving the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1989 and in 1990 receiving the Hedwig-Burgheim-Medaille from the city of Gießen for his work in promoting service, tolerance and understanding between people.
Works
Trautwein published 220 hymns of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL), half of which he had composed and written himself and the other half being translated by him into German from countries and churches around the world. Many of his hymns are present in the current German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch.
Hymns
- "Weil Gott in tiefster Nacht erschienen", 1963
- "Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden", 1966 (translation)
- "Komm, Herr, segne uns, dass wir uns nicht trennen", 1978
Other works
- Komm Herr segne uns. Lebenserinnerungen. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-87476-437-0
- Oskar Schindler – immer neue Geschichten. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7973-0734-9
Works in editing
- Basler Mission, Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (ed.): Thuma Mina. Internationales Ökumenisches Liederbuch. 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. Ein ökumenisches Gesangbuch. Kassel, Bärenreiter 1983, ISBN 3-7618-4994-X
External links
- Dieter Trautwein in the German National Library catalogue
- Obituary (in German) EKHN, 11 November 2002
- Obituary wcc-coe.org
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- "Von guten Mächten" (1944)
- "Danke" (1961)
- "Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören" (1963)
- "Stern über Bethlehem" (1964)
- "Lass uns in deinem Namen, Herr" (1965)
- "Wie als een God wil leven" (1965)
- "Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden" (1966)
- "Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis" (1966)
- "Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen" (1969)
- "Herr, wir bringen in Brot und Wein" (1970)
- "Das Weizenkorn muss sterben" (1971)
- "Herr, segne uns" (1971)
- "Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn" (1971)
- "Nahe wollt der Herr uns sein" (1971)
- "Segne dieses Kind" (1971)
- "Seht, der Stein ist weggerückt" (1971)
- "Das eine Brot wächst auf vielen Halmen" (1972)
- "Einer ist unser Leben" (1973)
- "Seht, er lebt" (1973)
- "Manchmal feiern wir mitten im Tag" (1974)
- "Herr, du bist mein Leben" (1978)
- "Komm, Herr, segne uns" (1978)
- "Selig seid ihr, wenn ihr einfach lebt" (1979)
- "Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt" (1979)
- "Ich lobe meinen Gott von ganzem Herzen" (1979)
- "Meine engen Grenzen" (1981)
- "Wenn das Brot, das wir teilen" (1981)
- "Bewahre uns, Gott" (1985)
- "Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen" (1988)
- "Ob ich sitze oder stehe" (1988)
- "Eingeladen zum Fest des Glaubens"
- "Wo Menschen sich vergessen" (1989)
- "Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele" (1991)
- "Gott, der du warst und bist und bleibst" (1993)
- "Gott hat mir längst einen Engel gesandt" (1996)
- "Wäre Gesanges voll unser Mund" (1999)
- "Weite Räume meinen Füßen" (2000)
- "Was mein Herz schwer macht" (2001)
- "Auf dem Weg durch diese Nacht" (2005)
- "Glauben können wie du" (2009)
- "Und meine Seele singt"
- "Segne, Vater, diese Gaben"
- "Nimm, o Gott, die Gaben, die wir bringen"
- "Auf zu neuen Horizonten"
- "Jetzt ist die Zeit"
- "Wenn wir das Leben teilen"
- Laudato si' (2016)
- Bruder Martin (2017)
- Eins (2021)
- Clemens Bittlinger
- Horst Christill
- Patrick Dehm
- Eugen Eckert
- Siegfried Fietz
- Claude Fraysse
- Winfried Heurich
- Peter Janssens
- Detlev Jöcker
- Thomas Laubach
- Christoph Lehmann
- Huub Oosterhuis
- Joachim Raabe
- Peter Reulein
- Kurt Rommel
- Helmut Schlegel
- Martin Gotthard Schneider
- Rolf Schweizer
- Michael Schütz
- Manfred Siebald
- Dieter Trautwein
- Erna Woll
- Lothar Zenetti
- Diethard Zils
- Alfred Hans Zoller
- Ralf Bendix
- Botho-Lucas-Chor
- Habakuk