Topics of the Kirchentag
Event & movement
The themes of the Kirchentag provide a framework for organizing the program, encompassing a wide range of formats including panel series, centers, theme days, workshops, Bible studies, keynote lectures, and various other formats.
An English-language program overview booklet will be released in spring 2025, offering international guests all the necessary information to plan their stay and maximize their Kirchentag experience. It will include a selection of events either interpreted into English or accessible without requiring language proficiency.
Anticipate engaging with the following topic areas:
Spiritual and theological programme:
- Bible studies
- Center Faith in conversation/Faith in action
- Center Living spiritually
- Center Church between innovation and discontinuation
- Panel series Ecumenism
- Topic Day Power - Abuse - Responsibility
- Opening services
- Closing services
- Ecumenical service
- Services
- Celebratory communion services
- Daytime prayers
Sociopolitical programme
- Keynote speeches/main panels
- Center Environment and economy
- Panel series International politics
- Topic Day Work and chances
- Center Democracy and community
- Center Jewish & Christian
- Center Living in diversity
Cultural programme
- Experiential space Culture Church
- Open Air Concerts
- Center Church Music
- Night and Day – the 24-hours-singalong-church
- Film series Utopias
- Concerts, musicals, plays, comedy gigs and much more
Target groups
- Center for Children and Families
- Center for Youth
- Forum Matters of survival for young people
- Center for Phases of Life
- Center for Gender and Rainbow
Special programme
- Opening Memorial Ceremony
- Market of Opportunities and Exhibition in the Marketplace
- Evening of Encounters
- Service center for international guests
- Service center for people with disabilities
- Service center Psychological consultation and spiritual welfare
- Interactive event Future of the Kirchentag
- Live streaming of selected events
