News from the Goetheanum

New horizons
23 December 2021

New horizons

Sebastian Jüngel
Martina Maria Sam has completed the second part of her biography of Rudolf Steiner. Following on from ‘Childhood and Youth’ this volume focuses on ...
Freedom and dignity essential for humanity
22 December 2021

Freedom and dignity essential for humanity

Sebastian Jüngel
The digital paradigm is one of perfection and efficiency. Human beings, on the other hand, need to be able to learn to live with insecurities and to ...
Covid regulations: Events will go ahead
21 December 2021

Covid regulations: Events will go ahead

According to new government regulations, healthy people who cannot prove that they have recovered from Covid or been vaccinated against it will be ...
Janusz Korczak: Every child, a star!
16 December 2021

Janusz Korczak: Every child, a star!

Janusz Korczak (1878 - 1942) is an outstanding Polish humanist and pedagogue who has further developed his extensive medical knowledge and his poetic ...
Paulo Freire: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
06 December 2021

Paulo Freire: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire (1921 - 1997) campaigned for the educational opportunity for everyone, including the unprivileged, the poorest. ...
«Colour symphony»
06 December 2021

«Colour symphony»

Sebastian Jüngel
With her book ‹A Life With Colour› Caroline Chanter presents the first comprehensive biography of the painter Gerard Wagner (1906–1999). Wagner ...
The Goetheanum distances itself from newspaper article
27 November 2021

The Goetheanum distances itself from newspaper article

Wolfgang Held
The article ‘And the Virus Dances its Name’ by Linus Schöpfer, published in the Tamedia Group’s newspapers on 25 November 2021– some with front-page ...
The search for life: 100 years Research Institute
19 November 2021

The search for life: 100 years Research Institute

Sebastian Jüngel
The Research Institute at the Goetheanum was founded a hundred years ago, prompted by the first experiments in search of a ‘reagent’ that can make ...
Revealing a previously unseen world
16 November 2021

Revealing a previously unseen world

Sebastian Jüngel
The exhibition at the Goetheanum features 20 paintings by Margarita Voloshina (1882–1973). The works from the second half of her life come from the ...
Gateways for new impulses
11 November 2021

Gateways for new impulses

Sebastian Jüngel
Entrepreneurship involves creating something new and dealing with new situations. Internally, this can refer to questions such as handing over a ...
Campus party
04 November 2021

Campus party

On 12 September from 10 am to 4 pm a Campus party was held in and around the Goetheanum that attracted several hundred visitors. There were guided ...
Promoting life’s potential
04 November 2021

Promoting life’s potential

Sebastian Jüngel
Manfred Klett is a farmer and he sees farming as the art and science of relations. The living relations in agriculture are the key to promoting the ...