A healthy first quarter

Following restructuring in 2019 the Goetheanum Press (Verlag am Goetheanum) has managed to break even at the end of the first quarter of 2020 and the book production has increased.

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The closure of bookshops as a result of Coronavirus restrictions has not impacted negatively on the Goetheanum Press’ sales in Germany and its internet sales have even gone up. One contributing factor has been the Newsletter that now advertises the Press’ wide range of publications. Only in Switzerland sales figures have dropped. Following restructuring in 2019, the publishers have broken even in the first quarter of 2020. The managing director Thomas Didden thinks that the low point has been passed.

Busy book production

In celebration of 100 Years of Anthroposophic Medicine, the Goetheanum Press, in cooperation with Salumed Press in Berlin (DE), brought out volume 1 of a commentary on Rudolf Steiner’s First Medical Course (GA 312) by Peter Selg and Péter Barna. The book was published [in German] just in time for the Medical Research Conference at the Goetheanum, which could still take place just before the lockdown. The volume focuses on the historical foundations. The second volume, which is expected in September, will discuss the first three lectures of the Medical Course in the light of current research. Further volumes are planned.

The second volume of Die Würde des Kindes (The Dignity of the Child), edited by Michaela Glöckler and Claudia Grah-Wittich, deals with the first three years of childhood. It has come out in time for the childhood conference that now had to be postponed to 2021.

Angelika Feind-Laurents explores the life and work of the Swiss musician Joseph Gunzinger, the former head of the Performing Arts Section at the Goetheanum.

Hans Hasler’s guidebook on the Goetheanum has been fully revised for a new edition that will be available in Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Russian. Translations into other languages are still available in the former edition. A history of the sculpture of the Representative of Humanity by David Hornemann and Mirela Faldey will come out in the autumn.

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