The Evangelical Church community is starting a new series of talks with various personalities from Bad Heilbrunn.
Bad Heilbrunn
– The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Bad Heilbrunn invites you to the “blue couch” once a month with immediate effect.
It is a new series of talks in which various personalities who live or work in the community report on their respective activities, talk about themselves, but are also available for discussions on current topics.
Father Karl Bopp will be the first guest on Monday, January 30th.
The host, the evangelical pastor Johannes Schultheiss, explains the basic idea behind the new series in an interview with our newspaper.
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Johannes Schultheiss Evangelical pastor
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Start: January 30th
Mr. Schultheiss, what is the basic idea behind the new “Blue Couch Talks”?
We have now had a corona pandemic for three years, during which the opportunities for personal encounters were limited.
That has shaped people, and I'm afraid that many aren't out and about as much as before, but spend more time at home.
Behind the new series of talks is the desire for people to come together again.
How did you select the guests for this format?
These are people who live in Bad Heilbrunn or have a specific function here or are traveling for work.
Which you may already know a little, but which you can get to know a little better on this occasion.
There are many exciting personalities in Bad Heilbrunn.
For example, we have a mayor who is also a musician, or a Rewe store manager who likes to keep bees.
And at the first appointment – one day after his 70th birthday, by the way – Father Karl Bopp, who is pastor of the parish of St. Kilian in Bad Heilbrunn, is a guest.
But the fact that he is also a professor of pastoral theology is perhaps not on the radar.
I can think of many more interesting people in Bad Heilbrunn, but for now I've only put together the program for this year.
Open discussions in the round
What to chat about on the blue couch?
On the one hand, it should be about the career of the respective guest.
But it's not supposed to be a lecture, nor a conversation between just two people, but an open round in which the participants can talk about everything that's moving them at the moment, be it the Ukraine war or inflation or the question of what makes you tick disturbs in Bad Heilbrunn or what you wish for.
It could also be about the question of how the relationship of the respective guest to the Protestant church in Bad Heilbrunn is.
This relationship should be strengthened and encouraged.
And the eponymous "blue couch", what's that all about?
For years we have even had two blue couches in the parish hall, on which other discussion groups meet.
The appointments
The "talks on the blue couch" take place once a month in the evangelical community hall on Malachias-Geiger-Weg.
The first appointment with the Catholic pastor Karl Bopp takes place on Monday, January 30th.
Other guests are Mayor Thomas Gründl (February 20th), kindergarten director Anna Kaltenhauser (March 27th), pharmacist Marietta Klemme (April 17th), Marina Hechtl and Anne Gruber from the hospice association (May 15th), Rewe Store manager Alexander Wutke (June 19), former fire brigade commander Dominik Haustein (July 24), sports club board member Robert Rieker (September 25), master painter Feodor Schraml (October 23), specialist clinic doctor Doris Gerbig (November 20) and "Jaud" nursing director Christine Strehl (December 18).
It always starts at 7 p.m.
You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.
