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Born 6 February 1926 (age 91) ( 1926-02-06 ) Frankfurt am Main Occupation TheologianPriestWriterHymnwriter | ||
Lothar Zenetti (born 6 February 1926) is a German Catholic theologian, priest, and author of books and poetry. He was in Frankfurt both a minister for young people and a parish priest. His songs, for example "Segne dieses Kind", appear in both Protestant and Catholic hymnals, and he was active on radio and television.
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Life and work
Zenetti was born in Frankfurt am Main. He attended there from 1931 the Bonifatius-Schule and from 1936 the Goethe-Gymnasium. He was drawn in 1943, first as Luftwaffenhelfer, then to the Reichsarbeitsdienst. At the end of the War, he was a prisoner of war first of the Americans, then the French. During this time he began to study theology at the so-called Stacheldrahtseminar (barbed-wire seminary) of Chartres.
Back in Frankfurt, he completed his Abitur and studied at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology. He graduated in 1952 and was ordained as a priest on 28 September 1952 by Wilhelm Kempf in Limburg an der Lahn. He worked as a Kaplan (vicar) in Oberbrechen, Kölbingen, Königstein im Taunus and at St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden. In 1962 he became Stadtjugendpfarrer (minister for young people) in Frankfurt. He was a parish priest in St. Wendel, Sachsenhausen, from 1962 to 1995.
He published several books and many poems. About 150 of his poems were set to music in the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL), several were included in hymnals, others appeared in song collections and were recorded, for example the ballad "Was keiner wagt" by the Liedermacher Konstantin Wecker. He also wrote texts and songs in Mundart (dialect). He worked for public television in a series Das Wort zum Sonntag, and was the representative of the Catholic Church for the broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk.
In 1984 he was awarded the prize Humor in der Kirche (humour in the church) by the Diocese of Limburg.
Selected works
48 publications by Zenetti are listed by the German National Library (DNB).
Books
Songs
Some of Zenetti's songs have been included in hymnals, such as Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG) and the Catholic Gotteslob.