News from the Society

Alex Podolinsky
29 August 2019

Alex Podolinsky

Alex Sergei de Podolinsky was dynamic, vibrantly creative, artistic and actively perceptive. He was born in Baden-Baden (DE), his father was of ...

Peter Bridgmont
29 August 2019

Peter Bridgmont

In the early hours of 24 June Peter Bridgmont crossed the threshold to the spiritual world. He and his wife used to teach speech and drama at the ...

Colloquia on the Constitution
29 August 2019

Colloquia on the Constitution

As announced at the 2019 Annual General Meeting of the General Anthroposophical Society, Gerald Häfner, Justus Wittich and Michael Schmock have ...

2022 East-West Congress
03 July 2019

2022 East-West Congress

The deadline for registering for the 2022 East-West Congress in Vienna (Anthroposophy Worldwide 1–2/2019) has been extended until the end of ...

Thanking Jaap Sijmons
03 July 2019

Thanking Jaap Sijmons

On 8 June Jaap Sijmons stood down as council chairman and general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands.

Traute Lafrenz Page M.D.
29 May 2019

Traute Lafrenz Page M.D.

Traute Page could celebrate her 100th birthday on 3 May. She is in good health in every sense. During the Third Reich she was a member of the ...

The world is expecting something from anthroposophists
01 May 2019

The world is expecting something from anthroposophists

The General Anthroposophical Society’s Annual Conference and AGM, held at the Goetheanum from 11 to 14 April, centred on the vision of a ...

East-West-Congress 2022
01 April 2019

East-West-Congress 2022

In 1922 the until then biggest public congress of the Anthroposophical Society was held in Vienna. Plans are underway for a new ...

Working together
30 March 2019

Working together

The anthroposophical groups in Japan are working towards a joint Anthroposophical Society and Anthroposophy Worldwide already exists in Japanese.

Ninetta Sombart
01 March 2019

Ninetta Sombart

Meeting Ninetta Sombart left a deep impression. She was serious and humorous, open, direct, and sometimes she also seemed reserved. She loved ...

Georg Glöckler
01 March 2019

Georg Glöckler

Every year on 23 August the Sun is close to Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, the heart of the zodiac. On that day in 1933 ...

Maria St. Goar
31 January 2019

Maria St. Goar

Maria had been able to contribute significantly to the growth of Anthroposophy in the English-speaking world primarily through translation of ...