An empty church

In the area of tension between church and society, faith is discussed and transformed. We are right in the middle of it. St. Peter's is the place where we can reflect on the meaning of life as if we were tracing it for the first time. In a fascinatingly empty space. At the zero point of religion.

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The history

St. Peter's is more than 850 years old. Over the centuries, the first church building became a five-nave hall church, equipped with a rich baroque inventory. Until Palm Sunday 1942, when bombs fell on Lübeck. The church burned out, the roof and steeple were destroyed. St. Peter's remained a ruin for a long time.

In 1987, St. Peter's could be given a new purpose: To be an empty space for the church at the zero point of religion. An open space for art, culture, science and an experimental site for ritual, proclamation and dialogue.

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Board of Trustees

Provost Petra Kallies

Chairwoman of the St. Petri Board of Trustees

Dr. Bernd Schwarze

Pastor

Lilly Schaack

Pastor

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Bartels-von Mensenkampff

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Lübeck University of Technology

Karolin Broosch

Music facilitator and coach for process accompaniment

Prof. Franz Danksagmüller

Composer and lecturer at the University of Music Lübeck

Anja Farries

Judge, Director of the Eutin District Court

Paula Kommoss

Art historian and curator, Director of the Overbeck Society

Lena:Emil Kramheller

Sociologist, PhD candidate at the University of Lübeck

Christian Martin Lukas

Managing Director Lübeck and Travemünde Marketing


Dr. Sven Alexander Rieper

Doctor and musician


Max Schön

Entrepreneur

Jochen Schultz

Pastor, Managing Director of the Services and Works of the Church District

Prof. Dr. Christian Sina

Director of the Institute for Nutritional Medicine, Lübeck Campus, UKSH


Knut Winkmann

Director and theater pedagogue, Theater Lübeck


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The team

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    Andrea Flint
    Divisional management tower & café
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    Andrew Franck
    Sexton
    0451 - 79070 - 11
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    Folkert Oehme
    Sexton
    0451-79 07 0-11
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    Lilly Schaack
    Pastor
    0451 39773 - 20
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    Jörg Schröder
    Sexton
    0451-79 07 0-11
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    Pastor Dr. Bernd Schwarze
    Pastor at St. Petri & artistic director
    0451-39773-25
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    Daniel Sorour
    Event Management
    0451-39773-24

Tower Team and Café Team

Tower

Janne Bertram

Sonja Bollow

Gina Drümmer

Claudia Dürkop

Maren Molzahn

Ulrike Quitsch

Tatjana Steinhagen

Kirsten Westphal

Café

Alina Bendlin

Marie Benke

Sabine Bonk

Karin Dora

Lucia Helbricht

Claudia Lange

Yelda Yasar

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Our partners

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With over 30 degree programs, the university with the most diverse range of courses in Lübeck
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The University of Lübeck is one of Germany's leading universities in the natural sciences, technology and medicine.
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A few meters away from St. Petri is the Lübeck University of Music. We are partners in events and teaching.
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Lübeck Travemünde Marketing positions St. Peter's as a place worth visiting.
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Since January 2016, St. Peter's and the renowned Lübeck art association Overbeck-Gesellschaft have been working closely together. The director of the Overbeck-Gesellschaft was appointed art curator at St. Petri.