News from the Goetheanum

21 October 2024
Stepping into the Next 100 Years
From August 26 to 28, the Goetheanum Leadership met for its autumn retreat on the Odilienberg in Alsace. The place is historically closely linked to ...

18 October 2024
Experimental Gastronomy at the Goetheanum
To mark the 100th anniversary of biodynamic agriculture, Steinbeisser (Stone Biter), a studio for “experimental gastronomy,” transformed the ...

16 October 2024
To the Round Tables!
Gerald Häfner with perspectives on the democratic crisis in Germany. Interview by Wolfgang Held.

26 September 2024
Supporting self-sufficiency and independence
Biodynamic projects give small farmers and their families access to food through self-sufficiency, promoting self-reliance and sustainable food ...

22 September 2024
Meat and Milk from the Laboratory?
The production of animal products is criticized as being harmful to the climate. Cell-cultured products, which are grown in vitro from animal cells, ...

20 September 2024
Where the Bees Live
Over the past few weeks, Barbara Schnetzler and 48 helpers have built the bee house, constructing the rammed earth and filling the framework with it. ...

17 September 2024
A Path to Promote Life
Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak has co-led the Natural Science Section of the School of Spiritual Science with Matthias Rang since 2023. We ask where she ...

02 September 2024
Opportunism served “to save the soil”
A study on the Biodynamic Movement and Demeter in Nazi Germany describes the proximity of the biodynamic movement to the Nazi regime, even though the ...

30 August 2024
True forgiveness: Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan in conversation
Two daughters die in the Middle East conflict. Their fathers Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan are examples of how to find a future perspective. They ...

27 August 2024
Civilizational tasks: 100 Years‘ School of Spiritual Science
For 100 years the Sections of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum have been working with an understanding of life under cosmic, earthly ...

23 August 2024
Short film '100 years biodynamic'
Farming nurtures human beings. As the world population is growing, the number of people working in agriculture is going down. Biodynamic farming has ...

25 June 2024
Insights into the worldwide biodynamic movement
Many people are familiar with Demeter as a brand name but they don’t necessarily know what it stands for. A new magazine – ‘Living Farms’ – published ...