News from the School
Exhibition: BREAKING INTO THE UNKNOWN - Creating Art in the Time of Corona
51 artists have responded to the Section's call for works that have been created since the outbreak of the Corona crisis in early February.
Goetheanum: A new focus for the first term of the academic year 2020/21
The study courses at the Goetheanum have been adapted to the current conditions. The first term of the academic year 2020/2021 ‘Metamorphosis’ is ...
Gerald Häfner on the death of George Floyd
The death of Georg Floyd has triggered emotions all over the world. What lessons can be learned from this event?
Unrealized potential: Book on perspectives and initiatives in the times of Coronavirus
The Corona pandemic highlights the complex ways in which life forms interact. When disruptions occur, they lead to stress symptoms that can have a ...
Invitation to reflect on the potential for change
The research team of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum extends its research project ‘(Re)Search’, inviting young people to describe how they ...
‘Living Farms’ illustrates how Steiner School in Kenya applies biodynamic farming
A new contribution to the video series ‘Living Farms’ illustrates how the Mbagathi Rudolf Steiner School in Kenya combines education with basic ...
Into the Unknown: Appeal ‘Art in the time of Corona’
The Visual Art Section at the Goetheanum calls on professional visual artists to submit art work on the topic of Corona. With this appeal the ...
The Corona crisis poses three questions
The pause because of the corona crisis will allow for a future that will come when we take hold of it. This raises three key questions.
Our new relationship to animals
The Corona crisis calls for an end to the ongoing scandal of industrial animal husbandry, because it is not only contrary to animal welfare but ...
Goetheanum Adult Education Program to start in 2021
The restrictions to learning caused by the Coronavirus make us aware of the basic conditions needed for the acquisition of skills. The Goetheanum ...
Living Farms - Learning from each other worldwide
In the Living Farms project, Lin Bautze and Philip Wilson visit farms around the world to document their lives and opportunities for action and ...
Transformation of a building
Making metamorphosis come to life – a first exhibition site will illustrate the development from the First Goetheanum to Rudolf Steiner’s model ...
Being aware of our humanity
As a result of the Coronavirus measures, schools and educational institutions around the world are exposed to the impact of digital technology. ...
Jasmin Peschke: Healthy food for healthy individuals
Jasmin Peschke, nutritional scientist from the Section for Agriculture, describes why biodynamically cultivated and produced food is especially ...
The Goetheanum Stage will show Goethe’s ‹Faust 1 & 2› four times in 2020
The new production of Goethe’s ‘Faust’, parts 1 and 2, by Andrea Pfaehler (director) and Eduardo Torres (eurythmy) will premiere at the Goetheanum ...
The key to transforming the world and humanity
Since Christiane Haid became head of the Visual Art Section in the autumn of 2019 (in addition to her leadership of the Humanities Section), an ...
Individuality as a culture-building force
In their report for the year 2019/2020, the members of the Executive Council and Section leaders describe new forms of working, activities and ...
Coronavirus – restore balance by cooking with joy for all the senses
Even as the coronavirus measures restrict our lives, one place offers some balance: the kitchen. The meaningful activity of cooking, the ...
New Leadership of the Natural Science Section
Matthias Rang and Johannes Wirz are now leading the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum. The two scientists, who have doctorates in physics ...
Trust and relationships are sources of health
Anthroposophic medicine has decades of experience with viral pneumonia and is now broadly networked with medical fields that work in a ...
What can strengthen the immune system
Internal perspectives, authenticity, reflection and meditation contribute to the internal orientation of the soul and can positively influence the ...
The corona pandemic affects us humans, not nature
Nature is not affected by the corona pandemic – it breathes a sigh of relief and is able to provide security, especially as it now unfolds in ...
How do we live together?
The coronavirus pandemic challenges us as a community, demands our wakefulness and prudence, determination and patience. For anthroposophical ...
A Leadership Retreat in Extraordinary Circumstances
The Goetheanum Leadership is making use of the cancellation of public events to intensify its inner work and work on questions concerning the ...
Coronavirus – practical suggestions for distanced-learning at home
Due to the measures being taken against the Sars-CoV-2 virus, teachers and parents are now teaching children and adolescents via multimedia or ...
The healing effects of Anthroposophy
The commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death coincides with a special time: humanity is facing a pandemic threat with ...
We’re All in This Together – Pandemic and Ecology
Illnesses are images, and when an illness affects all of humanity, like COVID-19 does, it is an image of contemporary life. What facilitates this ...
Into Life
Project Leader Joan Sleigh and coworkers Juan Bottero, Milena Kowarik and Nicole Asis of the Social Initiative Forum engage in upholding human ...
Further training on vision
On 1 and 2 May the Goetheanum will hold a further training course in eurythmy therapy on vision. The course will be open to eurythmy therapists, ...
East Asia’s significance
A conference held at the Goetheanum from 15 to 17 February illuminated the significance of East Asia for our present culture.
The Corona Virus
For veterinarians, corona viruses are part of daily life, but now the corona virus SARS-CoV 2 has crossed the barrier to humans. What is a virus, ...
Charter for Community Catering
Commercial kitchens often have a poor reputation. Cafeteria food must be cheap. The Nutrition Circle for Kitchen Professionals advocates an ...
Steiner Studies journal project
The German Frommann-Holzboog Press publishes works by Rudolf Steiner as critical editions as well as the journal Steiner Studies.
February Days
More than 210 young people gathered from 30 January to 2 February under the motto Bound to Earth to talk about climate questions.
Eurythmy at the National Theatre
On 1 January, the Harmony Amateur Eurythmy Club in Taiwan had a three-minute performance at the National Taichung Theatre – with real instruments.
Marianne Schubert steps down as section leader
Marianne Schubert has led the Visual Arts Section for almost six years, but she has known the Goetheanum for much longer as a member of the ...
Johannes Kühl retires as Section leader
After 23 years in office, Johannes Kühl has stepped down from his leadership of the Natural Science Section at the end of 2019. He was the ...
Art Therapy in India
The art therapy school Swaasthyakala Niketan in Bangalore has been recognized by the Medical Section; the second training course will start in April.
A hundred years
At Easter 2020 Anthroposophic Medicine will celebrate its one hundredth birthday. The special anniversary will be marked with various events and ...
The Section for Agriculture invites you to share your experience
Farmers are under pressure: climate change with uncertain harvests, bureaucracy with time-consuming administration and a precarious financial ...
Premiere of ‘Leuchtfäden’
On December 28th, 2019 the Goetheanum eurythmy ensemble will perform its new program ‘Leuchtfäden’ (Rays of Light). It‘s about being on the move ...
The Goetheanum will be a guest at the Kunstmuseum Basel in December
The Kunstmuseum Basel has invited the Goetheanum to design two artistic evenings around the theme of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ as part of ...
Speaking from the heart, acting out of courage
In 2010 Stéphane Hessel (FR) demanded in an essay «Indignez-vous» (Rise up!). In 2018 the German politician Sahra Wagenknecht (DE) founded the ...
The spiritual human being
In the spring of 2020 Constanza Kaliks, Claus-Peter Röh and Peter Selg will take on the leadership of the General Anthroposophical Section at the ...
Light, bees and plants
The work of the Natural Science Section is done both by groups working globally and at the Goetheanum’s Research Institute.
Award for Søren Toft
The Section for Mathematics and Astronomy as a place of research includes the Kepler Observatory at the Goetheanum. It is from there that Søren ...
The next hundred years
The Section’s activities focused on the Waldorf 100 celebrations: perceiving, giving impulses, sharing experiences – and taking Rudolf Steiner’s ...
Speech therapy
‹New listening and authentic speaking› in connection with earth maturity were the topics of the speech therapy conference from 23 to 27 October at ...
Conference for a Culture at the Threshold at the Goetheanum
Human beings are increasingly influencing the limits of their lives: the date of birth is planned by Caesarean section, and the moment of death ...
Bound to Earth
A new youth movement has emerged out of concern for the earth as a living habitat. From 30 January to 2 February 2020, young people will gather at ...
Living Farms: Opportunities for a Sustainable Agriculture
Loss of soil and biodiversity, pollution of water resources and challenges from climate change cast doubt on the agricultural practices currently ...
New Section leaders
Johannes Kühl has been head of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum since 1996. At the end of 2019 he will pass on the leadership to a ...
Vaccinate?!
The topic of vaccination elicits passionate responses. But why? And why do we need to vaccinate earlier and earlier today? Georg Soldner in ...
World Food Day: True flavour comes from environmentally friendly farming
Our spending habits determine how the world looks, because the purchase of a product supports the conditions under which it is produced. ...
World Eurythmy Day: “The joy and courage to live”
September 24th is World Eurythmy Day: Eurythmy is lived on stage as the production of spoken language, musical and dramatic events as well as in ...
We are talking about the future and cosmic human being
The first Waldorf School opened in Stuttgart 100 years ago. There are now 1,180 Waldorf schools worldwide. Why was – and still is – the Waldorf ...
Art trainings merging
Three artistic training programmes – a eurythmy training, a speech training and a painting school – have merged in St Petersburg (RU). Some of the ...
Two exhibitions
In the autumn the Visual Art Section will hold both an exhibition of Georgian artists and a sales exhibition at the Goetheanum.
Alumni meeting
From 1 to 5 July the first Goetheanum Studies alumni meeting took place at the Goetheanum. The gathering took the form of a study week on the ...
Healing the wounds of Europe
World War One represented a deep trauma for the soul of Europe, the effects of which we are still living with. A conference in London on 14 and 15 ...
The Soul of Europe
From 23 to 25 August the tenth Soul of Europe conference – Facing Europe’s Challenges – will take place in Brussels be (in German, English and ...
At the threshold
From 6 to 8 December a conference will take place at the Goetheanum that is dedicated to questions regarding the threshold between life and death. ...
New managing director
In April, Thomas Didden became managing director at Verlag am Goetheanum (Goetheanum Press). Christiane Haid will continue as programme manager.
All four Mystery Dramas
All four Mystery Dramas by Rudolf Steiner will be performed as part of the conference ‹Spirituality – Fear and Health› from 29 July to 4 August 2019.
Launch of the Goetheanum Leadership School in Autumn
The Goetheanum Leadership School is aimed at self mastery as a prerequisite for the management of companies and groups as well as for the exercise ...
Fear and health
At the forthcoming summer conference at the Goetheanum, from 29 July to 4 August, on Spirituality, Fear and Health the Goetheanum Stage will ...
What is our global attitude to vaccinating?
On 15 April 2019 the Medical Section and the International Association of Anthroposophical Medical Societies (IVAA) responded to multiple requests ...
Acting from the heart
«Courage» was the theme and title of an international student conference at the Goetheanum from 23 to 27 April. Around 650 students from more than ...
Always developing
Since 2017, a team of young researchers has put this question to their generation peers: What would the world look like in 2030 if what lives ...
Social Threefolding
Impulse for the Future: A Hundred Years of Social Threefolding was the title of a conference that brought 650 people to Stuttgart (DE) from 5 to 7 ...
World Educators' Conference
More than 1000 Waldorf educators took part in the International Early Childhood Conference Inner Freedom – Social Responsibility. Finding Paths to ...
Pain therapy
From 13 to 17 February a Medical Conference on anthroposophic pain therapies organized by the Medical Section took place at Wellington University ...
Faust 2020
On 20 February, the Leadership team provided information on the planned new production of Faust 2020 at the Goetheanum – initially to be shown in ...
Meditation initiative
On 10 and 11 February, twelve people prepared the network meeting of the Goetheanum Worldwide Meditation Initiative which will be held in Avignon ...
New pharmaceutical impulses
In January 2019 a group responsible for Anthroposophic Pharmacy was founded within the Medical Section.
‹Heartbeat› premiere
On 29 December the Goetheanum’s new Eurythmy Ensemble presented the premiere of its first programme: Heartbeat – Herzschlag – Latir del Corazón.
Land and Economy
The conference of the Section for Agriculture, to be held at the Goetheanum from 6 to 9 February, will focus on practice-oriented models of a ...
Documentation of the Goetheanum World Conference 2016
Here you can find the documentation of the Goetheanum World Conference, which took place at the Goetheanum from 27 September to 1 October 2016.