Traudl Wallbrecher Explained

Gertraud “Traudl” Wallbrecher (née Weiß; 18 May 1923 in Munich – 29 July 2016 in Munich[1]), a representative of the Catholic avant-garde of the 20th century, was the initiator of the Catholic Integrated Community, which she established with her husband Herbert Wallbrecher (1922–1997) after the Second World War.

Work and Life

Gertraud Weiß grew up in Munich-Schwabing. From age 13, she belonged to the Catholic Heliand League.[2] After auxiliary service in the war, she began studying psychology at the University of Munich, and from 1943 onwards she attended the Social Women's School. As a nurse, she was obligated to work in the service in 1945 and experienced the dissolution of the Dachau concentration camp first hand.[3]

From 1945, she was the leader of Heliand.[4] At the nationwide meeting in Telgte near Münster in 1947, she unsettled the assembled people with the question of what the Shoah catastrophe meant for the church and its mission.[5] As a consequence, she left the Heliand in 1948 and started the group "Junger Bund".[6] Among others, she was encouraged to do so by theologian professor Michael Schmaus.[7] The priest Dr. Aloys Goergen supported the group until 1968.

In 1949, Traudl Weiß married the lawyer Herbert Wallbrecher from Hagen in Westphalia, who belonged to the Catholic "Bund Neudeutschland".[8] They had four children. With him and his friend Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, the later Cardinal and archbishop of Paderborn, she found two allies. The Integrated Community was formed by the people who gathered around Traudl Wallbrecher, her husband and Aloys Goergen.

As editor of the magazine "Die Integrierte Gemeinde",[9] Wallbrecher aroused the interest of agnostics like Gerhard Szczesny[10] and theologians like Joseph Ratzinger,[11] [12] who supported the path of the KIG within the Catholic Church since then.[13] [14] She gained ideas for the "community" experiment in 1965 on a trip to kibbutzim in Israel.[15] Through the friendship with Chaim Seeligmann,[16] [17] this resulted in an intensive exchange, which eventually led to the founding of the "Urfelder Kreis"[18] in 1995.[19] [20] American Hutterites and German Bruderhofers were also drawn to attention.[21] In the US, Wallbrecher won religious Jews as friends, such as the writer Zvi Kolitz and the director of the New York Yeshiva University, Norman Lamm.[22]

Together with her husband, she founded the private Günter-Stöhr-Gymnasium in 1977, now one of the schools of the St. Anna school network.[23] Since 1978, an Integrated Community in Africa[24] has developed from her encounter with Bishop Christopher Mwoleka,[25] Tanzania.[26] [27]

One of her greatest concerns was the theology, which had grown from the new experience of the Church.[28] In order to work on this, two exegetes of the New Testament, Rudolf Pesch[29] [30] [31] [32] and Gerhard Lohfink[33] [34] [35] [36] [37] gave up their professorships in the 1980s and joined the Integrated Community. A chair called "Cattedra per la Teologia del Popolo di Dio",[38] [39] was set up at the Lateran University[40] in Rome in 2008[41] after Wallbrecher's initiative of the "Academy for the Theology of the People of God" in the Villa Cavalletti near Frascati; since September 2016 the chair offers the post-graduate distance learning module "The Profile of the Jewish Christian", from September 2017 on also in English.[42]

On July 29, 2016, Gertraud Wallbrecher died in Munich at the age of 93 after a long illness.[43] The Italian newspaper "Avennire" (August 9, 2016) captioned its obituary "Addio a Gertrude Wallbrecher, 'teologa' del popolo di Dio".[44]

Writings

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wallbrecher. Gertraud. Remembered. Catholic Integrated Community (CIC). Katholische Integrierte Gemeinde. 28 May 2017.
  2. Book: Katholische Integrierte Gemeinde - eine Kurzdarstellung. 2005. Verlag Urfeld. Bad Tölz. 9783932857454. 8. 28 May 2017.
  3. Koch. Bernhard. Traudl Wallbrecher (1923 - 2016). Plough Quarterly. 2017. Spring. 76. 28 May 2017.
  4. Heute in Kírche und Welt. 2003. Sonderausgabe zum 18. May 2003. Verlag Urfeld. 2.
  5. Book: de Gaál. Emery. The theology of Pope Benedict XVI - The christocentric shift. 2010. Palgrave Macmillan. New York. 978-0-230-11476-0. Chapter 7: Pastor to Radical Christians. 1st. 28 May 2017.
  6. Book: Guerriero. Elio. Servitore di Dio e dell'umanità - La biografia di Benedetto XVI. 2016. Mondadori. Milano. 978-8804672401. Chapter VI: Ebrei e cristiani: due religioni, un'unica Alleanza. 28 May 2017.
  7. Katholische Integrierte Gemeinde, Heute in Kirche und Welt, No. 6/2008,, p. 3, Papst Benedikt XVI. an Traudl Wallbrecher zu ihrem 85. Geburtstag, Vatikanstadt, 14. Mai 2008
  8. Book: Tyldesley. Mike. No heavenly delusion? A comparative study of three communal movements. 2003. Liverpool University Press. Liverpool. 0-85323-608-9. 91. 28 May 2017.
  9. Wallbrecher. Traudl. Die Integrierte Gemeinde. Christliche Existenz in einer säkularen Welt - Beiträge zur Reform der Kirche. 1976. 1 - 17. 1969. 29 June 2017.
  10. Book: de Gaál. Emery. The theology of Pope Benedict XVI - The christocentric shift. 2010. Palgrave Macmillan. New York. 978-0-230-11476-0. Chapter 7: Pastor to "Radical Christians".
  11. http://www.communio.de/inhalte.php?jahrgang=2009&ausgabe=2&artikel=5 Karl-Heinz Menke, Die 'Älteren Brüder und Schwestern', in: Zeitschrift Communio, 2009, p. 191
  12. Book: Kissler. Alexander. Der Deutsche Papst - Benedikt XVI. und seine schwierige Heimat. 2005. Herder. Freiburg im Breisgau. 3451288672. 87, 93–94. 28 May 2017.
  13. Book: Wallbrecher. Traudl. 30 Jahre Wegbegleitung. 2006. Verlag Urfeld. Bad Tölz. 978-3-932857-40-9. 20 ff. 28 May 2017.
  14. Web site: Joseph Ratzinger / Papst Benedikt, Skandalöser Realismus? Gott handelt in der Geschichte, Verlag Urfeld, Bad Tölz. 3. Aufl. 2005 ISBN 3-932857-44-5, Vorwort von Traudl Wallbrecher,(Urfelder Texte, 4). .
  15. Book: Pesch. Rudolf. Juden und Christen - ein einziges Volk Gottes?. 2009. Patmos. Düsseldorf. 978-3-491-72534-8. 66.
  16. Book: Seeligmann. Chaim. Es war nicht nur ein Traum. 2002. Verlag Urfeld. Bad Tölz. 3-932857-29-1. 142 ff. 28 May 2017.
  17. Book: Seeligmann. Chaim. Spuren einer stillen Revolution - Begegnungen eines Kibbuz-Mitgliedes mit der Katholischen Integrierten Gemeinde. 1998. Verlag Urfeld. Hagen. 3-932857-21-6. 28 May 2017.
  18. Web site: Palgi. Yair. First impressions of the Urfeld Circle Meeting. פוסטים אחרונים. yairpalgi.com. 28 May 2017.
  19. Book: . Globalization of communes 1950 – 2010, 2013, New Brunswick NY, Transaction Publishers . 2 November 2012 . 9781412849487 . 161 .
  20. Book: Dorkam-Dispeker. Joel. Stacheln im Honig. 2015. Schüren Verlag. Marburg. 978-3-89472-290-6. 307 ff. 28 May 2017.
  21. Book: Yaacov Oved. The Witness of the brothers - A history of the Bruderhof. 2013. Transaction Publishers. New Brunswick (U.S.A.); London (U.K.). 9781560002031. 319–321. 28 May 2017. p. 321 reports about a meeting of Johann Christoph Arnold and Cardinal Ratzinger in Rome on June 24, 1995 arranged by Integrierte Gemeinde
  22. Book: Buckenmaier/Pesch/Weimer. Achim/Rudolf/Ludwig. Der Jude Jesus von Nazareth - Zum Gespräch zwischen Jacob Neusner und Papst Benedikt XVI. 2008. Bonifatius. Paderborn. 978-3-89710-419-8. 28 May 2017.
  23. Web site: Günter-Stöhr-Gymnasium. St. Anna Schulverbund. www.st-anna.eu. 28 May 2017.
  24. Web site: Herbert-Wallbrecher-School – Tanzania – INTIGREATOR. www.intigreator.com.
  25. Web site: Cheney. David M.. Bishop Christopher Mwoleka. Catholic Hierarchy. www.catholic-hierarchy.org. 28 May 2017.
  26. Web site: Report Nr. 19/2006. Catholic Integrated Community in Tanzania. Jumuiya Katoliki ya Integresheni. 28 May 2017.
  27. Web site: Reports from Tanzania - 2015 The Girls Boarding School in Mikese. KIG-online.de. KIG - Catholic Integrated Community. 28 May 2017.
  28. Book: Cardinal Ratzinger. Joseph. Many religions, one covenant - Israel, the Church and the World. 1999. Ignatius Press. San Francisco. 978-0-89870-753-3. Notes, Preface. 28 May 2017.
  29. Book: Pesch. Rudolf. The Trial of Jesus continues. 1999. Pickwick Publications. Allison Park, Pa.. 978-1-55635-033-7. Translated from the German by Doris Glen Wagner.
  30. Web site: Pesch. Rudolf. Rudolf Pesch, 1936 - 2011. WorldCat Identities. worldcat.org. 28 May 2017.
  31. Web site: » In memory of Rudolf Pesch. www.popolodidio.org.
  32. Rudolf Pesch, Juden und Christen – ein einziges Volk Gottes? Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009,
  33. Web site: Gerhard Lohfink. Plough.
  34. https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2014-07/untamed-jesus In review: No Irrelevant Jesus, by Gerhard Lohfink
  35. Book: Lohfink. Gerhard. Does God Need the Church?. 2014. Liturgical Press. Collegeville, MN. 9780814659281. 321. translated by Linda Maloney.
  36. Book: Lohfink. Gerhard. Jesus of Nazareth - What He wanted, who He was. 2015. Liturgical Press. Collegeville, Minn.. 9780814683088. 28 May 2017.
  37. Web site: Martin. James. Jesus, by the book. America The Jesuit Review. 31 January 2013 . www.americamagazine.org. 28 May 2017.
  38. Web site: Cattedra per la teologia del popolo di dio. Pontificia Università Lateranense. www.pul.it. 28 May 2017.
  39. Web site: Symposium in Tanzania . March 2014.
  40. Achim Buckenmaier, A poor people of God for the poor in the world? The challenge of Pope Francis, Roma 2014, Lateran University Press
  41. Web site: Chair for the Theology of the People of God. www.popolodidio.org. Prof. Dr. Achim Buckenmaier. 28 May 2017.
  42. Web site: Distance Learning. Theology of the people of God. Chair for the theology of the people of God. 28 May 2017.
  43. Web site: Weimer. Ludwig. Setting the course: Assembling instead of dissipating. Remembering Traudl Wallbrecher. kig-online.de. 28 May 2017.
  44. Galli. Andrea. Addio a Gertraud Wallbrecher, 'teologa' del popolo di Dio. Avvenire. 2016-08-09. 28 May 2017.

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