[OSList] florian fischer has passed away

Fri Oct 30 12:19:38 PDT 2015

Thank you Peggy for reminding me. I was there too in Berlin in 2000 and at the Swenmark gathering in 2003. I remember Florian as a very gentle and at the same time very dedicated person. And also very creative. He could challenge my assumptions in a way that was very inspiring and at the same time a bit unsettling. I guess that is the way it should be. 

Not having seen him for over 10 years I can't say that I miss him, but I celebrate his life and I cherish the memories. 

Koos

> Op 30 okt. 2015 om 18:43 heeft Peggy Holman via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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 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.
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> 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
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> http://peggyholman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Florian-at-OSonOS-DenmarkDSCN3727.jpg 
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> 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:
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>> Oh, no.
>> 
>> A great spirit was he.
>> 
>> :- Doug.
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>>> 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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