[OSList] florian fischer has passed away

Fri Oct 30 11:04:39 PDT 2015

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

yes!

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Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
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http://OpenSpaceWorld.org

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Peggy Holman via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> 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-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
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