Canon since 2022 – provost of the church
Born 24th May 1972 in Rehau (Oberfranken)
Married to Friederike Deeg, minister of religion
Lives in Leipzig
Education and career
1991 School graduation in Hof
1991 – 1992 Six months social work (assisting persons with severe handicaps)
1992 – 1998 Studied Protestant theology and Jewish studies in Erlangen and Jerusalem
1998 – 2000 Vicar in the Lutheran Church in Bavaria (Reichenschwand)
2000 – 2009 Research assistant to professor of practical theology in Erlangen
2001 Ordained as minister of the Lutheran Church in Bavaria
2005 Doctorate (Dr. theol.) with a thesis on the sermon in Judaism and Christianity
2009 – 2011 Head of the Centre for Protestant Preaching of the EKD (German Protestant Church) in Lutherstadt Wittenberg
2010 Post-doctoral thesis in practical theology, fundamental liturgy studies
2011 Professor of Practical Theology at the Theological Faculty of Leipzig University
Head of the Institute of Liturgy Studies at VELKD (United Protestant Lutheran Church in Germany)
Member of the Liturgy Committee of VELKD
Since 2016: Chair of the Liturgy Committee of VELKD
Further honorary positions
President of the international society of researchers and teachers of homiletics (Societas Homiletica)
Deputy chair of Study in Israel
Secretary of Göttinger Predigtmeditationen
Member of publishing committee of many magazines on liturgy, homiletics and practical theology
Member of many international and interreligious organisations and societies
Teacher at Atelier Sprache e.V. (Braunschweig)