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08. Jul 2025 / Campus Living

From an idea and a Canadian covered wagon to a living tradition

In 2014, the Friedensau campsite working group was given a special opportunity: a week-long trip to the USA – with the aim of getting to know campsite models and so-called ‘summer camps’. This was an intensive, inspiring week full of new impressions,
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08. Jul 2025 / Campus Living

Mourning for Prof. Dr Petra Jürgens

On 24 June 2025, the family, colleagues, fellow music therapists, members of the university and friends bid farewell to Petra Jürgens in a moving funeral service. A few statements are reproduced here:
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07. Jul 2025 / Campus Living

“125 years of Friedensau. A chronicle” by Johannes Hartlapp

A comprehensive chronicle of Friedensau has been published and can now be ordered!
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28. May 2025 / Campus Living

“Kamusta Ka? – How are you?” asks my Filipino neighbor.

“Kamusta Ka? – How are you?” asks my Filipino neighbor. Very well, but how do you say that in his language, Filipino, also known as Tagalog?
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16. Apr 2025 / Campus Living

Living connected

When I open the newspaper, I am horrified. I have the feeling that times are changing at breakneck speed: Existing, traditional values are not only being questioned, but seemingly abandoned without much inhibition.
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16. Apr 2025 / Campus Living

Friedensau on the road in NRW

Friedensau Community Meeting Day in North Rhine-Westphalia. This year, on 25 January 2025, it was once again ‘Friedensau on the road’. This time, North Rhine-Westphalia was the destination.
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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living

Looking back – and yet looking forward

125 years | Friedensau connects | People. Cultures. Generations.

The anniversary year 2024 has come to an end and the special events celebrating 125 years of Friedensau have come to an end. This prompts us to take a brief look back at the past year and highlight some of the milestones in our history – to take ...
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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living

Monument! What shapes us, what we want, what we are grateful for

I am looking forward to the publication of our new chronicle! It will be a document that not only documents historical data, stories and pictures, but also bears witness to how Friedensau's history is being told now – in 2024.
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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living

The “Chronicle” of Friedensau will be published

The village of Friedensau in Jerichower Land has only existed for 125 years. Not a long time for a place. Building on the older documents, Friedensau church historian Dr. Johannes Hartlapp wrote ...
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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living

Friedensau Chronicle – the history in pictures

The history of Friedensau is well documented. It began with the many articles published by Ludwig Richard Conradi at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in the then community magazine "Zionswächter".
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20. Jan 2025 / Campus Living

Vespers with Magdeburg Domchor

Friedensau Adventist University cordially invited to a vespers with the Magdeburg Cathedral Choir under the direction of Cathedral Cantor Christian Otto on Saturday, 18 January 2025, in the chapel Friedensau.
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21. Nov 2024 / Campus Living

Friedensau celebrates its 125th anniversary

Der Rektor Prof. Fischer eröffnet den Festgottesdienst.

Blue skies, pure sunshine, happy faces - a Sabbath that couldn't have been more beautiful. On Sabbath, 19 October 2024, a service of celebration and thanksgiving took place in the Friedensau Arena to mark the 125th anniversary.
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