Media representatives
Around thirty anthroposophical media representatives met on 8 October in order to share their experiences of the current situation – due to Corona, the half-day meeting took place online.
In the German-speaking world, too, anthroposophical organizations are affected by the restrictions arising from Corona rules. As anywhere else, visits to other countries had to be cancelled or postponed, as did events, including the specialist media meeting öffentlich wirken scheduled for March. But the group’s work did not come to a standstill, because it was continued in different ways. Here and there, developments were expedited by the setting up and expanding of digital means of communication that allowed for discussions and events to be moved to the virtual domain. In the interest of continuation, this bi-annual media meeting, too, took the form of a video conference.
Some saw the localization of the causes of the Covid-19 pandemic in society as facilitating greater awareness, for instance of the consequences of factory farming, the wider recognition of organically or biodynamically grown food and the fostering of relationships.
Concerns were raised regarding the loss of a culture of discourse and the accusations levelled at anthroposophists. In the context of protests against the Corona rules in Germany, authors made connections between right-wing extremists, conspiracy theorists and opponents to vaccinations. This chain was often extended to include esoterics and anthroposophists. As part of this contextualization anthroposophists are presented as subversive, anti-Semitic and racist. How, the media representatives ask themselves, can one reject inappropriate attributions and work against the shadows they cast?