[OSList] florian fischer has passed away

[Peggy Holman via OSList]

Like Chris, I fell in love with Florian the first time I met him. It was at OSonOS in Berlin in 2000. Among his many gifts, he was a poet. I turned a pamphlet he created of his poems <http://peggyholman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Florians-Poems.pdf> about Open Space into a pdf. He called it "Weying in Open Space". He coined the term weying to speak of identity grounded in “we”. From a paper he wrote:

 When boundaries connect as well as separate, then it is not a matter of here and there, not of we and you, but rather a matter of the distinction within the unit, it is a matter of unity in the network of complex structures.

One thing that impressed me about Florian was his learning more English so that he could participate more in the Open Space community. I saw him at several OSonOS gatherings, including Vancouver, BC in 2001 and at the “Svenmark OSOnOS (Sweden/Denmark), where these pictures were taken in 2003:
http://peggyholman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Florian.jpg <http://peggyholman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Florian.jpg>

http://peggyholman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Florian-at-OSonOS-DenmarkDSCN3727.jpg <http://peggyholman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Florian-at-OSonOS-DenmarkDSCN3727.jpg> 

I always had the sense that anything could happen when Florian was around. He will be missed.

Appreciatively,
Peggy




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> On Oct 30, 2015, at 9:35 AM, doug via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh, no.
> 
> A great spirit was he.
> 
> :- Doug.
> 
> On 10/29/2015 06:58 PM, Catherine Pfaehler via OSList wrote:
>> Dear Open Space family
>> 
>> Upon my return home tonight, I found a letter in the mail.
>> 
>> „on sunday evening october 18th, florian has sunk back into the secret
>> of life. he departed decidedly, has spread his wings powerfully for his
>> last journey. – we live on a little bit and will then come too. until
>> then, he will stay in our hearts forever.“
>> 
>> His family has sent a beautiful card with texts from florian. The one on
>> the front side reads:
>> 
>> „beginning
>> 
>> over is over
>> 
>> in the beginning there was no end.
>> 
>> so it was decided,
>> 
>> that beginning shall follow beginning,
>> 
>> forever.
>> 
>> over-is-over since means:
>> 
>> give space to new beginning.“
>> 
>> On the back side of the card, I read „today, his family and closest
>> friends have said good-bye to florian, full of gratitude, on the
>> evangelic cemetery of alt-schöneberg, berlin.“
>> 
>> With fond memories of florian who, with katharina and shirin,
>> magnificently held space for us when we visited them in Rodalquilar in
>> October 2007 full of sadness and shock as we had just received the news
>> of the death of my daughters and their father and spouse, and who was my
>> coach in my first big Open Space… Fare well, my dear friend!
>> 
>> Catherine
>> 
>> PS: If you want to send a card, the address of katharina’s and florian’s
>> home is now: Katharina Fischer-Möcklinghoff, Münchener Strasse 6, D –
>> 10775 Berlin
>> 
>> Catherine Pfaehler
>> 
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