Heiner Wilmer

In the organizer's words:

• Heartbeat
• Etty Hillesum - an encounter
• Literature

She was the thinking heart of the barracks and her writings made her world-famous: Etty Hillesum's work is one of the spiritual classics and at the same time her personality is as fascinating as it is contradictory. She was torn from a life against the conventions of the time by the Second World War and later murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Heiner Wilmer has long been fascinated by her life and work and has studied her time and again. But never like this: He locks himself away for days at a time for a retreat and only deals with one person: Etty Hillesum. He reads her notes, meditates, thinks - and writes a fictitious literary dialog with Etty, asks questions, investigates. At the DAI, he presents his unusual work, full of verve, with stirring thoughts and great linguistic power.

Dr. Heiner Wilmer has been Bishop of Hildesheim since 2018. He was ordained a priest in 1987 and was a teacher, school chaplain and principal from 1993 to 2007, including in the Bronx in New York. From 2007, he was provincial of the Sacred Heart priests in Germany, and from 2015 to 2018, General of the Dehonian Order based in Rome.

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