News from the Goetheanum
02 April 2026
Changed eating preferences
Catering services during Goetheanum events will change and be simplified in accordance with today’s eating habits. Another hope connected with this ...
29 March 2026
“A fulfilled life despite restrictions”
Dealing with the health challenges of elderly people requires something other than a deficit-oriented view of ageing. Christian Schikarski, an ...
29 March 2026
Together of Our Own Free Will
The Earth’s elliptical orbit has two focal points: the Sun as a physical center, and the other as a spiritual center. Two focal points, one earthly ...
26 March 2026
Society’s future starts in kindergarten
The foundations for empathy, cooperation and the ability to stand up for others and for the community are laid in the early years of life. The ...
12 March 2026
The World of Ita Wegman
She was a born cosmopolitan—arriving via Java, the Netherlands, and Berlin to Switzerland, where she studied in Zurich and practiced medicine in ...
09 March 2026
Productive Tension
The future of anthroposophy relies how we hold its tensions and contradictions. A retrospective on the 100 Years Rudolf Steiner conference, held at ...
20 February 2026
Summer festivals on the 100th performance of ‘Faust’ parts I and II
The Goetheanum Stage will hold three summer festivals in July 2026 to celebrate its 100th performance of Johann Wolfgang Goethe‘s ‘Faust I and II’ ...
10 February 2026
“The word ‘hopeless’ was not part of her vocabulary”
The physician Ita Wegman was fully committed to taking on responsibility for sick people – therapeutically, socially and spiritually. On the occasion ...
10 February 2026
New Social Sciences Leadership from autumn 2026
On 9 December 2025 the Goetheanum Leadership accepted the proposal of the search committee to nominate Johannes Kronenberg and Gerald Schuster as ...
09 February 2026
Beyond Calculation—Art as Risk
How is art different from the products of mathematical operations? Christiane Haid shows why images generated by AI cannot be compared to creative ...
30 January 2026
Contributions to ‘Stil’ magazine describe karma without guilt
Reincarnation and karma have been concepts of various cultures and religions, including in Western civilizations. One of Rudolf Steiner’s ...
26 January 2026
‘Stil’ magazine analyzes Rudolf Steiner’s use of language and form
Six authors use Rudolf Steiner’s creative language to illustrate how spirit can be experienced. Depending on their content, structure and style his ...