- * 1940 in Bergkamen (near Dortmund)
- He is a church critic, an author, a speaker, and a peace and animal rights activist, according to his website. The website also contains a little “in English” section.
- He is a media critic too, saying this year in a speech (in German): “At this point I get a fright, about Helmut Schmidt, the officer in World War II, the so-called “Defense Minister” of the Federal Republic of West Germany, the later Chancellor of Germany - and the editor of “Die Zeit”, which has been drumming the Germans ready for war since the 1980s.”
- Mathias Broeckers comments his peace speech from 2024-09-14 like this: “As a theologian, depth psychologist and political thinker, Eugen Drewermann knows his way around everywhere - inside and outside, above and below - and he spans fascinating rhetorical arcs: about God and the world, from current events to eternity, from personal experiences during and after the war to the overall geopolitical situation of today”.
I had the honour of once, probably around 2012, experiencing Eugen Drewermann in person. It was a small commemoration in front of Dortmund's “Steinwache” (a former prison, now a museum hosting the excibition “Resistance and prosecution in Dortmund 1933-1945”). I noticed how well Drewermann was capable of speaking freely - an art he preserved up until his now (in 2024) old age. The speech's topic was not just generally outstanding, but it also contained a personal element, and it was very suitable to the place where he held it: I remember Drewermann recounting how as a small child in the dark he had seen the distant sky glowing red. When he asked his father what this was, the answer was: “This is the burning city of Dortmund”.