Dorothee Sölle auf der Spur

Who was Dorothee Sölle? Why is she still being read 20 years after her death?
Konstantin Sacher's personal text between reportage, history of works and biography provides the answer. Sacher has been researching Sölle for years and has initiated a scholarly network that has met with great interest via the internet. For Sölle's texts stand as much for linguistic brilliance as for a clever but not too academic theology.
With the author as a travel guide, readers can follow Dorothee Sölle's trail. The intellectual journey begins in 1954 with her first publication in a conservative Christian cultural magazine, continues through her existential, liberation-theological, feminist, peace-movement and ecotheological texts, and ends with her late major work "Mysticism and Resistance". The biographical stations are Cologne, Soelle's hometown, Hamburg, where she lived for a long time and is buried, Kiel, where her estate is kept, and Lucerne, where Soelle's second husband Fulbert Steffensky, himself a very well-known theological publicist, lives.