Dorothee Sölle dies after hartattack.

Dorothee Sölle(Soelle) was a peace activist, a mystic, and a teacher of theology at New York's Union Theological Seminary. She has published more than twenty books on theology and faith.

She was one of the leading figures (together with Jurgen Moltmann and Johann Baptist Metz) of the post-Holocaust Christian theologians. Most famous is her comment on Elie Wiesel's 'Night'. In that book Wiesel claims God died in Auschwitz. He saw an innocent child slowly dying a painful death by being hung from a rope. He struggles and gasps for air as he slips away. Death creeps in and takes the child. Elie Wiesel heard a voice asking, "Where is God?" and as he recalls his life in the Nazi Holocaust, he remembers telling himself, "Where is he? Here he is - he is hanging here on this gallows." Wiesels viewpoint was that God died in the camps, together with 6 million Jews.

In 'Pain and Our Pain', Sölle argues that the traditional doctrine of a benevolent and omnipotent Deity must be modified in the light of the Holocaust. In her view, it is no longer possible to accept that God possesses such attributes. Instead, we must acknowledge that God is all-loving, but not omnipotent. Hence, he suffers along with those who are victimized. God experiences our pain, and thereby consoles the afflicted.