Rudolf Steiner as a Student and a Teacher

The conference “Rudolf Steiner as Student and Teacher” aims, in the 100th year since his death, to offer another approach to him and his work – from the perspective of lifelong learning. Rudolf Steiner not only taught in a variety of contexts and professional groups, both exoterically and esoterically, but remained, until the end of his life, a constantly reading, studying, and learning person who followed new developments in science, literature, art and religion with the highest attention – but also revisited older writers. Even at his sickbed (October 1924 to March 1925), his secretary, Guenther Wachsmuth, regularly brought many books from Basel. “Whenever I came with a large stack of selected books to his sickbed, it was always an exciting moment when he carefully took the books, looked at the title and author, flipped through some pages, and made his selection.”

The conference will focus on selected moments of Rudolf Steiner’s life as a learner and teacher – and will continue with further events until the end of 2025 (“Rudolf Steiner reads Schelling”; “Rudolf Stein- er reads Thomas Aquinas”; “Rudolf Steiner reads Nicolaus of Cues”). The gathering will culminate on September 28, Michaelmas Eve, with Rudolf Steiner’s “Last Address,” which will be introduced by a lecture on Raphael and then read. It will conclude with the Michael Imagination in Eurythmy. “In the dawn of the Michael Age,” Rudolf Steiner’s entire work was carried out.

For the General Anthroposophical Section,
Constanza Kaliks and Peter Selg