Diethard Zils O.P. (born 1935) is a German Dominican, priest and hymnwriter. Born in

Bottrop Bottrop () is a city in west-central Germany, on the Rhine–Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr area, Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck, and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and ...

, Zils is known as a hymnwriter for the genre

Neues Geistliches Lied (, ''new spiritual song''), abbreviated NGL, is a music genre of songs in German intended for church usage, and based on contemporary lyrics and with music by contemporary composers. History The idea to reach young people by new songs for ...

and a translator of such songs. They have been included in the Catholic hymnal ''

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'' (GL), and also in Protestant hymnals such as ''

Evangelisches Gesangbuch ''Evangelisches Gesangbuch'' (''EG''; , "Protestantism, Protestant song book") is the current hymnal of German-language congregations in Germany, Alsace and Lorraine, Austria, and Luxembourg, which was introduced from 1993 and 1996, succeeding ...

'' (EG) and the ' (MG). They were set to music by notable composers:Lieder von Diethard Zils
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Selected works

* "Abraham, Abraham, verlass dein Land" (music: ) (EG 311) * "Ein befreiendes Lied" (music:

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) (youth music festival at

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1992) * "Frieden und Shalom" (melody from Israel) * "Im Dunkel unsrer Ängste" (music: ) (MG 296) * " Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn" (melody from Israel, GL 140) * "Lass uns den Weg der Gerechtigkeit gehen" (music: Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez) (MG 490) * "Lobt und preist die herrlichen Taten" (music: Lucien Deiss) (EG 429) * "Mädchen du in Israel" (music by Albe Vidakovic) * "Pilger sind wir Menschen" (after the melody of "

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" by Edward Elgar) * "

Sag ja zu mir, wenn alles nein sagt "Sag ja zu mir, wenn alles nein sagt" (Say yes to me when all say no) is Christian hymn, with lyrics written by Diethard Zils in 1971, and music by made a hymn of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied with a melody by Ignace de Sutter. It is a penitenti ...

" (music by Ignace de Sutter, 1959, GL Austria 815 and other regional sections) * " Seht ihr unsern Stern dort stehen" for

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* "Wir haben Gottes Spuren festgestellt" (music: Jo Akepsimas, MG 406) * "Wir preisen deinen Tod" (music: Michael Ambroise Wackenheim, 1986, GL different regional sections)

References

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