Reflection by Alice Bond at the Annual Bonhoeffer Society Members’ Dinner (San Antonio 2016) I’m standing here because of a casual question from Mark Brocker, during lunch in Basel last July, asking how I got involved in the Bonhoeffer Society. After I told my story, he asked if I would consider sharing it with you [...]
Maria von Wedemeyer: Hiding in Plain Sight
While researching Dietrich Bonhoeffer and women, I was tantalized by a line from Maria’s sister Ruth-Alice von Bismarck in Love Letters from Cell 92: The Correspondence between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer: 1943-45: “In 1974 … She [Maria] also gave an interview about her relationship with Bonhoeffer for a television documentary.” (354)An interview? Why had [...]
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Women in Bonhoeffer’s Life
Alice Bond