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Richard Wagner‘s ‘Parsifal’ at the Goetheanum – with eurythmy
With its production of ‘Parsifal’, the opera referred to by its composer as a ‘sacred stage festival’, the team around Jasmin Solfaghari (general ...
Parsifal and eurythmy
Richard Wagner’s Parsifal will be performed three times at the Goetheanum – with plenty of eurythmy.
Mystery Dramas
From 11 to 16 July Rudolf Steiner’s four Mystery Dramas will be performed with some new cast members at the Goetheanum, embedded in a conference ...
The Soul Awakes in Conversation
Five thousand years ago, the soul directed divine or royal will – feeling and thinking were determined from the periphery. With the birth of ...
“We can decide. Every day. Anew.”
The climate question is keeping governments busy. In their essay ‘Breathing with the Climate Crisis’, Lin Bautze, Ueli Hurter and Johannes ...
Autonomy in agriculture
On 1 February at 14.00 hrs, the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum invites you to an media roundtable about agriculture as a cultural ...
How Can We Define Anthroposophy?
In 2022, Beer Verlag reissued a work by Ignaz Troxler in which his aphoristic fragments are summarized under the title ‹The Certainty of the ...
Night Vigil at the Goetheanum
A jewel wrapped in warmth and permeated with life – this is how the Goetheanum presented itself - with 52 spot lights, 12 fire bowls and 2000 ...
Livestreams in commemoration of the fire 100 years ago
On December 31, the lectures by Peter Selg, ‹The Fire of the Goetheanum and the Future of Anthroposophy› and by João Torunsky, ‹Flames of fire – ...
New lecture series: The Responsibility of Freedom
Today, freedom and responsibility form a field of tension that sheerly tears many people and societies apart. This lecture series of the ...
«Seductive Character»
The transhumanist concept promises perfection and holds out the prospect of the replacement of the human being by technology. The Section for the ...
The First Goetheanum as a community building
A hundred years ago, in the New Year‘s Night 1922/1923, the First Goetheanum was destroyed in an arson attack. Events in and around the Goetheanum ...
Biodynamics at the Climate Conference
The Goetheanum Agricultural Section’s Lin Bautze and Ueli Hurter participated in the COP27 Climate Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
The Next Step
‹Wegspuren› [Vestiges on the Path] is the name of the new program of the Goetheanum Eurythmy Ensemble. A piano trio by Schubert and a dramatic ...
Emancipation through agriculture
The biodynamic brand ‘Demeter’ is known around the world, the foundations of biodynamic agriculture less so. In the year leading up to the ...
‘Our future looks the same’
Question! Encounter! Play! is an inclusive arts project that aims to bring together young asylum seekers in Switzerland and young people from Europe.
Humour in puppetry
From 10 to 12 March 2023, the Goetheanum will host the conference ‘Imagery and Humour as Creative Forces in Puppetry’.
Mistletoe therapy clinically verified
Scientific studies are available on the efficacy of Anthroposophic Medicine, for example on mistletoe therapy for cancer.
From a Debt to a Gift
What is money? Do we need money? If we fetch water from the spring and go into the forest and gather food, then we don’t need money. When we ...
What Did Rudolf Steiner Want?
With this question in mind, the well-known Swiss television format ‹Sternstunde der Philosophie› [Great Hour of Philosophy] has broadcast a ...
Visions from the Desert
Andrea Valdinoci was in Sekem, Egypt in early October as a board member of the Evidence Foundation. Impressed by the power of initiative of the ...
On the Quest for Health
This year’s autumn conference, which was attended 450 people with and without special needs from about thirty countries, offered diverse ways of ...
Towards a New Anthropocene
A small book dealing with a big issue, ‹Breathing with the Climate Crisis›, has recently been published at the Goetheanum. Following the 2021 ...
Freed from Occult Captivity?
The three 2022 Nobel Laureates in Physics – John Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger – have experimentally shown that quantum physics is ...
Sections
- Becoming Human
- with Nature
- through Art
- in the Social Sphere
- in Healing
Becoming Human
General Anthroposophy
In the General Anthroposophical Section of the School of Spiritual Science, central questions of contemporary humanity and anthroposophy are researched and cultivated.
Youth
Spirituality begins with questions and intuitions. In our youth this search is pure and authentic. That is why we encourage young people to create spaces for discussion in order to find their own language and lifestyle for all that lies beyond words.
with Nature
Natural Sciences
As humans we are part of life, its very soul. It becomes conscious in and through us in animals, plants and someday in minerals. The next step is to understand nature, not control it even more but to discover its very essence.
Agriculture
To live from nature calls upon us to give her life in return. Life is relationship, so our task is to find and discover new life cycles where the earth nourishes us.
Mathematics-Astronomy
Ancient myths speak of thinking of human beings born from the stars and guided by them. Today, freed from the stars, a new bond can be formed with the universe, which can take humans beyond the sphere of the earth.
through Art
Performing Arts
Music, drama, dance, and eurythmy are all art forms of time. They lead us beyond time—it becomes space, panorama. The goal is the imagination, to seek and grasp what is eternal in the moment.
Visual Arts
Our spiritual nature as humans and that of all life becomes visible in painting and sculpture, which is beyond words and concepts. Here we experience what is spiritual, where understanding and feeling are united.
Literary Arts and Humanities
How a text becomes a poem, a shape becomes a sculpture, a picture becomes painting: that is determined by the "how." Beauty and truth come together. Here is the source for the quietest form of human happiness.
Pedagogy
Pedagogy befitting human beings helps every child to develop its own potential and to understand itself and the world. This type of education encourages children to awaken to what they have intended for life before it begins.
Social Sciences
We become human beings among other human beings especially when we cultivate community as a living being. If it is healthy, it cultivates soul and spirit and enables all individuals to grow and find themselves.
in Healing
Medicine
Crisis and transformation are part of the journey to finding oneself. Therefore medicine should not so much seek to defeat the disease as to reawaken the natural health of the organism and give it strength and direction for self-healing.
Goetheanum Leadership
From left to right: Matthias Girke, Peter Selg, Matthias Rang, Oliver Conradt, Christiane Haid, Stefan Hasler, Florian Osswald, Claus-Peter Röh, Jean-Michel Florin, Gerald Häfner, Georg Soldner, Johannes Wirz, Ueli Hurter, Constanza Kaliks, Philipp Reubke and Justus Wittich. Photo: Xue Li
Goetheanum Leadership Publications
Peace in Ukraine!
The war in Ukraine constitutes an unacceptable attack on peace and freedom, life and dignity. The situation has the potential to escalate with ...
Book: Human partnership with the earth in crisis
In the book 'The Spiritual Signature of our Time in the Era of the Coronavirus' the members of the Goetheanum Leadership work out how the way of ...
Statement: Anthroposophy and racism
For the 2021 AGM, a group within the Goetheanum Leadership put together a working paper on anthroposophy and racism.
Human orientation of the Anthroposophical Society
The Anthroposophical Society is a cosmopolitan society. It is based on a contemporary society of individuals. Membership is open to everyone, ...
Book on Corona
The Leadership of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum is working on multidimensional solutions based on its understanding of life.
Studies & Further Education
Goetheanum Studium
Our study programs address a variety of anthroposophy-related topics. As an international and diverse learning environment, we welcome participants from all over the world, of all ages, and with different educational backgrounds. On-campus and online courses, as well as professional training programs, are offered throughout the year and are held in different languages, all conducted by the Goetheanum faculty and professionals.
SEE WEBSITEStage
The Goetheanum Stage offers a valuable contribution to cultural events in the anthroposophical movement and also in the tri-border region with its eurythmy ensemble, the project ensembles for Rudolf Steiner's ‹Mystery Dramas›, Goethe's ‹Faust› and numerous guest performances.
In addition to numerous guest performances, the programme includes in-house productions. These include Goethe's ‹Faust›, the Four ‹Mystery Dramas› by Rudolf Steiner, productions by the Young Stage (Junge Bühne), eurythmy programmes by the Goetheanum Eurythmy School.
Documentation
The Goetheanum Documentation is a section of the General Anthroposophical Society and as such is privately funded. It oversees the cultural material assets of the Goetheanum in its subdivisions: archive, library and art collection.
School Secretariat
Karin Eckstein
hochschule@goetheanum.ch
+41 61 706 43 09