AMD 2, Yuntao Chen

Für diesere Woche fortsetze ich den Dokumentarfilm "die Deutschen" zu sehen. Der titel von diesere Episode ist ,,Luther und die Nation". Es erzählt die Geschichte von Martin Luther und seine Reformation von Catholic Church.

In the 1500s, the Roman church was getting more and more corrupted. The Catholic clerks abused their power and the ordinary people's trust, and put more and more taxation on the German people. Martin Luther thought that people should not be able to use money to redeem their sin. And God should be directly connected to everyone, without the Roman churches in between --

,,Niemand stehe zwischen Gott und den Gläubigen."

This greatly annoyed both the Pope and his ally, the German king Karl der Fünfte. Martin Luther was persecuted and he had to seek protection from Friedrich der Weise, der sächsosche Landesherr. While hiding in Friedrich's castle Wartburg, Martin Luther finished one of his most important projects -- translating the bible into German. This was the first German translation of the bible, and it was extremely popular and widely spread after publication. The fact that ordinary people could reach and understand the biblical text made it very difficult for Roman churches to use bible as an excuse for their acts. It was said that this translation of bible formed the language foundation of the unified German nation.

Even though the protestant uprising was finally put down by Karl der Fünfte, Martin Luther had a long lasting influence on German history, his pursuit of religious and political freedom for the German people greatly accelerated the pace of forming an unified Germany.