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Bruder Feuer
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»Der Held dieser Geschichte, Franz, ist nicht erfunden. Er hat gelebt, und zwar vor rund achthundert Jahren. Er hieß Francesco Bernardone und stammte aus der italienischen Stadt Assisi. Wir kennen ihn als den ›Heiligen Franziskus‹.« Warum erzählt Luise Rinser diese Geschichte des Franz von Assisi, die in historischen Aufzeichnungen überliefert ist, und vor allem wie erzählt sie vom Leben und Wirken dieses jungen »Feuergeistes«, des Dichters und Sängers aus dem Mittelalter, der als reicher Kaufmannssohn ein wilder Playboy und Verschwender war, bis er als Bettler fortging ins Gebirge zu den Armen und Aussätzigen.
Für Luise Rinser war Francesco Bemardone ein »geistgetriebener Revolutionär«, ein Unbequemer und Außenseiter in einer Zeit, die über die Jahrhunderte hinweg in vielem der heutigen gleicht: Mit der Gründung der ersten Fabriken (Webereien) begann damals der Privatkapitalismus, das Geld der Fabrikanten und Kaufleute, der Fürsten und der Kirche führte zu Machtkämpfen und Kriegen, machte die Armen ärmer und unglücklicher. In dieser verrotteten Zeit schuf der feurige Franziskus in seinen Kommunen junger Anhänger, mittellos aus Nächstenliebe, ein neues Modell des echten christlichen Geistes, das dem Bedürfnis unserer heutigen Gesellschaft genauso entspricht wie dem von damals. Die Gegenwart also ist der Ausgangspunkt für Luise Rinsers Spurensicherung. Sie geht den historischen Überlieferungen nach und projiziert das Leben des Heiligen Franziskus in unsere Zeit. Ein cleverer Zeitungsreporter stöbert im Assisi des 20. Jahrhunderts herum, sucht in den Bergen nach der Kommune des Franz, befragt die Leute, die Gegner und Anhänger. Und so entsteht ein wiedererwecktes Bild des Ordensgründers der Franziskaner. Wie Franz von Assisi heute gelebt hätte - als Urwald-Arzt oder Arbeiterpriester, als Sozialhelfer oder Gefängnispsychologe -, darüber wird der Zeitungsreporter berichten, skeptisch und doch angerührt wie die Historiker vor achthundert Jahren.
»Der Held dieser Geschichte, Franz, ist nicht erfunden. Er hat gelebt, und zwar vor rund achthundert Jahren. Er hieß Francesco Bernardone und stammte aus der italienischen Stadt Assisi. Wir kennen ihn als den ›Heiligen Franziskus‹.« Warum erzählt Luise Rinser diese Geschichte des Franz von Assisi, die in historischen Aufzeichnungen überliefert ist, und vor allem wie erzählt sie vom Leben und Wirken dieses jungen »Feuergeistes«, des Dichters und Sängers aus dem Mittelalter, der als reicher Kaufmannssohn ein wilder Playboy und Verschwender war, bis er als Bettler fortging ins Gebirge zu den Armen und Aussätzigen.
Für Luise Rinser war Francesco Bemardone ein »geistgetriebener Revolutionär«, ein Unbequemer und Außenseiter in einer Zeit, die über die Jahrhunderte hinweg in vielem der heutigen gleicht: Mit der Gründung der ersten Fabriken (Webereien) begann damals der Privatkapitalismus, das Geld der Fabrikanten und Kaufleute, der Fürsten und der Kirche führte zu Machtkämpfen und Kriegen, machte die Armen ärmer und unglücklicher. In dieser verrotteten Zeit schuf der feurige Franziskus in seinen Kommunen junger Anhänger, mittellos aus Nächstenliebe, ein neues Modell des echten christlichen Geistes, das dem Bedürfnis unserer heutigen Gesellschaft genauso entspricht wie dem von damals. Die Gegenwart also ist der Ausgangspunkt für Luise Rinsers Spurensicherung. Sie geht den historischen Überlieferungen nach und projiziert das Leben des Heiligen Franziskus in unsere Zeit. Ein cleverer Zeitungsreporter stöbert im Assisi des 20. Jahrhunderts herum, sucht in den Bergen nach der Kommune des Franz, befragt die Leute, die Gegner und Anhänger. Und so entsteht ein wiedererwecktes Bild des Ordensgründers der Franziskaner. Wie Franz von Assisi heute gelebt hätte - als Urwald-Arzt oder Arbeiterpriester, als Sozialhelfer oder Gefängnispsychologe -, darüber wird der Zeitungsreporter berichten, skeptisch und doch angerührt wie die Historiker vor achthundert Jahren.
- Genres20th Century
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
About the author
Luise Rinser
148 books12 followersLuise Rinser (30 April 1911 in Pitzling, Landsberg am Lech, Upper Bavaria – 17 March 2002 in Unterhaching, Munich) was a German writer.
Luise Rinser was born on 30 April 1911 in Pitzling, a constituent community of Landsberg am Lech, in Upper Bavaria. Her birth house still exists. She was educated in a Volksschule in Munich, where she scored high marks on her exams. After the exams, she worked as an aide in various schools in Upper Bavaria, where she learned the reformed pedagogical style of Franz Seitz, who influenced her teaching and writing. During these years, she wrote her first short stories for the journal Herdfeuer. She refused to join the Nazi Party, but after 1936 belonged to the NS-Frauenschaft and until 1939 she also belonged to the Teacher's Association. In 1939, she resigned from teaching and was married. In 1944 she was denounced for undermining military morale, and imprisoned; the end of the war stopped the legal proceedings against her, which probably would have concluded with a death sentence. She described her experience in the Traunstein women's prison in her Prison Journals (Gefängnistagebuch) of 1946. She described herself in an ode to Adolf Hitler as opposed to the Nazis. Her first husband, and the father of both her sons, the composer and choir director Horst Günther Schnell, died on the Russian Front. Afterward, she married the communist writer Klaus Herrmann, but this marriage was annulled about 1952. From 1945 to 1953, she was a freelance writer for the New Daily News (Munich), and she established her residence in that city.
In 1954, she married the composer Carl Orff and they divorced in 1960. She formed a tight friendship with the Korean composer Isang Yun, with the abbot of a monastery, and with the theologian Karl Rahner. In 1959, she lived in Rome, and then in 1965 in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, where she was recognized as an honored resident in 1986. Afterward, she lived until her death at her apartment in Munich.
Rinser kept herself active in political and social discussions in Germany. She supported Willy Brandt in his 1971/72 campaign, and demonstrated with the writers Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass and many others against the retrofitting of Germany with Pershing rockets. She became a sharp critic of the Catholic Church, although she never left it and she was an accredited journalist at the Second Vatican Council. She also criticized, in open letters, the prosecution of Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, and others, and wrote to Ensslin's father: "Gudrun has a friend in me for life.". In 1972, she traveled to the Soviet Union, the USA Spain, India, Indonesia, South Korea, North Korea, and Iran – she saw the Revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini as "a shining model for the states of the Third World." – Japan, Colombia and many other countries. She engaged herself for the abolition of the Abortion paragraph § 218 in its current form. She served as a leading voice for the Catholic Left in Germany.
In 1984, she was proposed by the Grünen as a candidate for the office of federal president.
Luise Rinser was born on 30 April 1911 in Pitzling, a constituent community of Landsberg am Lech, in Upper Bavaria. Her birth house still exists. She was educated in a Volksschule in Munich, where she scored high marks on her exams. After the exams, she worked as an aide in various schools in Upper Bavaria, where she learned the reformed pedagogical style of Franz Seitz, who influenced her teaching and writing. During these years, she wrote her first short stories for the journal Herdfeuer. She refused to join the Nazi Party, but after 1936 belonged to the NS-Frauenschaft and until 1939 she also belonged to the Teacher's Association. In 1939, she resigned from teaching and was married. In 1944 she was denounced for undermining military morale, and imprisoned; the end of the war stopped the legal proceedings against her, which probably would have concluded with a death sentence. She described her experience in the Traunstein women's prison in her Prison Journals (Gefängnistagebuch) of 1946. She described herself in an ode to Adolf Hitler as opposed to the Nazis. Her first husband, and the father of both her sons, the composer and choir director Horst Günther Schnell, died on the Russian Front. Afterward, she married the communist writer Klaus Herrmann, but this marriage was annulled about 1952. From 1945 to 1953, she was a freelance writer for the New Daily News (Munich), and she established her residence in that city.
In 1954, she married the composer Carl Orff and they divorced in 1960. She formed a tight friendship with the Korean composer Isang Yun, with the abbot of a monastery, and with the theologian Karl Rahner. In 1959, she lived in Rome, and then in 1965 in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, where she was recognized as an honored resident in 1986. Afterward, she lived until her death at her apartment in Munich.
Rinser kept herself active in political and social discussions in Germany. She supported Willy Brandt in his 1971/72 campaign, and demonstrated with the writers Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass and many others against the retrofitting of Germany with Pershing rockets. She became a sharp critic of the Catholic Church, although she never left it and she was an accredited journalist at the Second Vatican Council. She also criticized, in open letters, the prosecution of Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, and others, and wrote to Ensslin's father: "Gudrun has a friend in me for life.". In 1972, she traveled to the Soviet Union, the USA Spain, India, Indonesia, South Korea, North Korea, and Iran – she saw the Revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini as "a shining model for the states of the Third World." – Japan, Colombia and many other countries. She engaged herself for the abolition of the Abortion paragraph § 218 in its current form. She served as a leading voice for the Catholic Left in Germany.
In 1984, she was proposed by the Grünen as a candidate for the office of federal president.
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July 26, 2020
More of an explanation of a certain philosophy than a great fiction book. The point seemed to be to show varying opinions on Franz; but the opinions we got weren't actually that varied; many people were just repeating the same things over and over. I grew both annoyed at the journalist for being so annoyed all the time, and at all the people telling him that he couldn't possibly get it. In any case, the dialogue was smooth, and it mostly did what it set out to do.
March 7, 2026
Propaganda buch fuer christlichen glauben (????) without ever really defining that except for being very radically anticapitalist and ego-less
Wild!
Und cooles konzept, einen bibel dude heiligen in die aktuelle zeit zu versetzen und wie er dann rezipiert werden wuerde
Wild!
Und cooles konzept, einen bibel dude heiligen in die aktuelle zeit zu versetzen und wie er dann rezipiert werden wuerde
August 1, 2019
Ganz nett geschrieben und pfiffige Idee mit guter Ausführung.
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