Simon Wiebe M.Ed.
doctoral candidtate, sub-project A06
Zur Person
Simon Wiebe studied Protestant Theology and History, both with and without a teaching qualification, in Paderborn, Giessen and New Haven from 2017 to 2024. His interest in history led him to the Museum für russlanddeutsche Kulturgeschichte in 2022, where he has since worked as a public history coordinator. In this context, he immersed himself in migration research, particularly the intersections between migration and religion. He focuses in particular on the Russian-German migrant churches, which have so far received insufficient attention from a theological perspective. This gap in academic research forms the starting point for his doctoral project, which examines eschatological conceptions of homeland in Russian-German (Post-)Gulag theology.
His current research project is entitled “Heaven as Home?! Eschatological Concepts of Home and Russian-German (Post-)Gulag Theology”.
research emphasis
- Migration research focusing on Russian-Germans
- Contextual theology and Russian-German migrant churches
publications
- «God is in the story hiding like meat in a fleisch piroshki». Zum theologischen Umgang mit Leid im Stalinismus der 1930er Jahre, in: Mennonitica Helvetica 48 (2025), S. 69-92.
- In einer Welt voller Widersprüche das Gleichgewicht halten. Lektionen aus dem Buch des Predigers, in: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeinden in Deutschland (Hg.), Gelassenheit. Mennonitisches Jahrbuch 2026, Luhe-Wildenau 2025, 77-81.
- mit Kornelius Ens: Heimat verlieren und (k)eine neue Heimat gewinnen. Zwei russlanddeutsche Perspektiven, in: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeinden in Deutschland (Hg.), Heimat. Mennonitisches Jahrbuch 2025, Luhe-Wildenau 2024.
