DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, VOLUME 12
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Berlin
1932–1933
Translated from the German Edition
Edited by
Carsten Nicolaisen and Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth
English Edition
Edited by
Larry L. Rasmussen
Translated by
Isabel Best and David Higgins
Supplementary Material Translated by
Douglas W. Stott
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, Volume 12
Originally published in German as Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, edited by Eberhard Bethge et al., by Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1997; Band 12, Berlin: 1932–1933, edited by Carsten Nicolaisen and Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth. First English-language edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 12, published by Fortress Press in 2009.
Copyright: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 12: copyright © 2009 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit http://www.augsburgfortress.org/copyrights/ or write to Permissions, Augsburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1209.
The publication of this work was subsidized in part by a grant from the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Munich.
Jacket design: Cheryl Watson
Jacket finishing: Ivy Palmer Skrade
Photo acknowledgments: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1932, while teaching a weekend course in Prebelow, cover and p. 49; © Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, Germany
Book design: HK Scriptorium, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945.
[Berlin, 1932–1933. English]
Berlin, 1932–1933 / Dietrich Bonhoeffer; translated from the German edition edited by Hans Goedeking, Martin Heimbucher, and Hans-Walter Schleicher; English edition edited by Larry L. Rasmussen; translated by Isabel Best and David Higgins; supplementary material translated by Douglas W. Stott.
p. cm.—(Dietrich Bonhoeffer works; v. 12)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8006-8312-2 (alk. paper)
1. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945—Correspondence. 2. Theologians—Germany—Correspondence. 3. Lutheran Church—Sermons. 4. Sermons, German—Translations into English. 5. Theology. I. Rasmussen, Larry L. II. Best, Isabel. III. Higgins, David Warren Simons. IV. Title.
BX4827.B57A4 2009
230′.044—dc22
2009037987
General Editor’s Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works
Editor’s Introduction to the English Edition
Larry L. Rasmussen
Berlin: 1932–1933
1. From Henry Louis Henriod, Geneva, November 2, 1932
2. To Wilhelm Stählin, Berlin, early November 1932
3. From Wilhelm Stählin, Münster, November 4, 1932
4. Invitation from the Provisional Bureau for Ecumenical Youth Work, Münster-Berlin, November 1932
5. To Wilhelm Stählin, Berlin, before November 11, 1932
6. From Wilhelm Stählin, Münster, November 11, 1932
6a. To August Wilhelm Schreiber, Berlin, ca. November 21, 1932
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About Berlin: 1932–1933“Then came the crisis of 1933.” This is Bonhoeffer’s own phrase in a letter that documents a turning point in his own life as well as that of the nation. Of Bonhoeffer’s own life at this time, his biographer writes, “The period of learning and roaming” from 1928 until 1931 “had come to an end” as the young lecturer, age 26, began to teach “on a faculty whose theology he did not share” and to preach “in a church whose self-confidence he regarded as unfounded.” Bonhoeffer was becoming part of a society “that was moving toward political, social, and economic chaos.” Events moved quickly at the onset of 1933 in Berlin. In only one hundred days the path was cleared by the German Parliament and the Nazi Party for the establishment of the fascist dictatorship. These one hundred days, as well as the preceding and succeeding months, are reflected in the materials in this volume: in letters, in sermons, in Bonhoeffer’s university teaching, in manifestos and a church confession, and in his proactive engagement in the developing church struggle. The vast majority of these are translated here for the first time. |
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