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30. Nov. 2023 / Campus Living
Dieter Leutert: A defining personality for Friedensau

Dieter Leutert is undoubtedly one of the very special personalities who shaped the Friedensau Preachers' Seminary and later the Friedensau Theological Seminary during the period of divided Germany.
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30. Nov. 2023 / Events
FOLLOW ME – Report from the EUD-camporee in Friedensau

Where otherwise only foxes on silent paws and squirrels scurry around, 2,700 scouts and guides were romping about at the beginning of August!
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30. Nov. 2023 / Events / Learning & Studying
Inner devoutness and interpersonal relationships in the mission

From 16 August to 7 September 2023, a group of theology students from the Friedensau Adventist University (FAU) travelled to Karao (Tanzania) with their lecturer László Szabó.
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22. Sep. 2023 / Learning & Studying
Participants of the trip to Tanzania show themselves very impressed.

Also in the summer of 2023, a project group from Friedensau Adventist University (FAU), led by Dr. László Szabó, lecturer at the School of Theology, and Szilvia Szabó, traveled to Karao in Tanzania.
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24. Jul. 2023 / Learning & Studying
25 years of music therapy in Friedensau

Friedensau and music – these two terms simply belong together. Music has always been an integral part of training and worship practice.
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24. Jul. 2023 / Learning & Studying
Yes, this is what I want to do

Interview with Friedensau graduate Phyu Phy Win from Myanmar – by Dean School of Social Work Thomas Spiegler
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24. Jul. 2023 / Science & Research / Science and research
A letter and its consequences | Part 2

Wilhelm Michael was a man of language.He had studied German, classical languages and philosophy in Munich, Leipzig, Heidelberg and Erlangen, and in 1909 earned his doctorate (Dr. phil.) with the publication of a two-volume collection of works ...
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24. Jul. 2023 / Campus Living / Events
Soccer & music from all over the world

Every year in May, the students and their guests in Friedensau celebrate the Week of Cultures. Several activities were hosted from 7 to 14 May 2023. The first activity was a soccer tournament on 7 May 2023 on the soccer field "An der Ihle".
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27. Jun. 2023 / Events
Handel’s “Messiah” in the Arena in Friedensau

On June, 17, 2023, George Frideric Handel's "The Messiah" was performed in the arena at the Friedensau campsite. Under the direction of the regional church musician Wilfried Scheel from Erfurt, more than 100 singers from the Central German Motet ...
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17. May. 2023 / Campus Living
Friedensau mourns the death of Helmut Weber (1934–2023)

Brother Helmut Weber was born in Bessarabia on July, 20, 1934. The war brought his parents and their six children to Central Germany. Helmut Weber was baptised in Halle/Saale in June 1953.
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17. Mar. 2023 / Campus Living
37 years of service for Friedensau – Rüdiger Schröter

Friedensau is not primarily an institution, it is above all the people who shape this place. Some come here only briefly to study or spend the last years of their lives here. For others Friedensau is more ...
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17. Mar. 2023 / Events
“The Messiah” – performance of the oratorio on 17 June 2023 in the Arena Friedensau

One of the world's most popular choral pieces certainly is the "Hallelujah" from Georg Friedrich Händel's oratorio "The Messiah". This ingenious work for solos, choir and orchestra never ceases to inspire.
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