News from the Goetheanum

Play Requires Truth
11 October 2022

Play Requires Truth

Sonja Zausch
Communities need playful encounters – not as a luxury but for their inner health. In play, we open up and make ourselves vulnerable and accessible. ...
Curved cucumbers also taste good
04 October 2022

Curved cucumbers also taste good

Sebastian Jüngel
Around 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away globally every year – a third of the entire annual food production. Each food item has a history and ...
Listening without knowing what there is to ‘hear’
28 September 2022

Listening without knowing what there is to ‘hear’

Sebastian Jüngel
Practising meditation means learning more about oneself and perceiving the world in increasingly nuanced ways without a personal perceptual filter. ...
Living Connections
27 September 2022

Living Connections

Claus-Peter Röh
The Living Connections colloquium took place at the Goetheanum from 8 to 11 September with 50 work group leaders and people with an interest in ...
Towards a One-World Economy
27 September 2022

Towards a One-World Economy

Kim Chotzen
43 colleagues of the Economics Conference from 14 countries reflected in fourteen one-hour online presentations on Rudolf Steiner’s Economics Course.
Preparation 501 on grapevine
27 September 2022

Preparation 501 on grapevine

Lin Bautze
Horn silica (501) preparation makes vines more adaptable to environmental conditions – due to an increase in phenolic metabolites.
From the Land of Mary to the Land of Sophia
23 September 2022

From the Land of Mary to the Land of Sophia

Sebastian Jüngel
Current discourses are informed by images, metaphors and myths. The contributions in the book ‘Die Ostsee-Mysterien’ explore the geological and ...
Mikhail Gorbachev
20 September 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev

Gerald Häfner
On the Death of the Bridge Builder between East and West. A conversation with Gerald Häfner. The questions were asked by Wolfgang Held.
A New Policy for Europe and the World
19 September 2022

A New Policy for Europe and the World

Michaela Glöckler
«We are all players aboard the Earth ship, and we must not allow it to be destroyed. There will be no second Noah’s Ark,» said Mikhail Gorbachev in ...
Rudolf Steiner’s Family. II – The Parents
15 September 2022

Rudolf Steiner’s Family. II – The Parents

Martina Maria Sam
His father fought for his children and was a freethinker. His quiet mother feared throughout her life that her son was overexerting himself because ...
Love Is Always Practical
12 September 2022

Love Is Always Practical

Constanza Kaliks, Philipp Reubke
Constanza Kaliks and Philipp Reubke head the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum. In the series ‹Anthroposophy – an Extension of Science?› they ...
Resilient agriculture in a changing climate
23 August 2022

Resilient agriculture in a changing climate

Sebastian Jüngel
Climate change causes droughts, flooding and crop failures. The Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum sees a possible option for action in the ...