In his play ‘The Visitor’, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt examines how differing views can be shared and tolerated. While Sigmund Freud and the Stranger acknowledge each other in their controversies, a Gestapo officer uses language to humiliate Sigmund Freud.
Farming around the world is under pressure due to drought. Heatwaves and the absence of rainfall cause dried out soils and threaten to spoil crops. While biodynamic farming cannot change the broader conditions in the short term, it does have experience with shading and with building up humus to store water and increase plant and animal resilience.
Whether you are a parent, an office worker or a teacher, practising amazement can help you break free from old patterns of behaviour, open up to the unknown and gain time to better understand yourself.
A hundred years ago the search for a deepened experience of sounds, intervals and tones led to the emergence of the new lyre. Since then, it has been developed further by instrument makers and pieces have been written especially for it by composers such as Siegfried Thiele and György Kurtág.
Due to the likely age increase in many societies, a considerably higher proportion of people in need of support is to be expected in the future. According to internist Christian Schikarski thinks that this cannot be solely a matter of individual responsibility. He therefore calls on policymakers to provide both information and training and care programmes.
In his monthly podcast ‘Living Farms’, Eduardo Rincón, co-leader of the Section for Agriculture, talks to international guests, discussing with them existing paradigms and considering new ways of developing farming so that it serves life in all its manifestations.
In international politics, the rule of law and diplomatic mediation have been replaced for some years now by the law of the strongest and most powerful, as is evident in the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, Sudan and Myanmar, and since 28 February 2026 also in the Gulf region.
The edition of Rudolf Steiner’s complete works, consisting of 450 volumes, has been finalized. The Rudolf Steiner Estate Administration (Nachlassverwaltung) and the General Anthroposophical Society will celebrate the completion of this project with a festive event at the Goetheanum on 17 April 2026.
Dealing with the health challenges of elderly people requires something other than a deficit-oriented view of ageing. Christian Schikarski, an internist with additional qualifications in anthroposophic medicine and experience in geriatrics, heads the Care Group ‘Old Age Culture and Geriatric Medicine’ in the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.
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 Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum calls for greater attention to be given to children’s early social development.
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’ since the premiere of the unabridged version in 1938.
The physician Ita Wegman was fully committed to taking on responsibility for sick people – therapeutically, socially and spiritually. On the occasion of her 150th birthday on 22 February 2026 a conference and a series of lectures were offered to honour the work of this important co-founder of Anthroposophic Medicine at the Goetheanum.
Reincarnation and karma have been concepts of various cultures and religions, including in Western civilizations. One of Rudolf Steiner’s contributions consisted in looking at reincarnation and karma in the light of the human ability to evolve – without moral implications in the sense of punishment for transgressions in a previous earthly life.
Six authors use Rudolf Steiner’s creative language to illustrate how spirit can be experienced. Depending on their content, structure and style his books provide different kinds of access to the spirit. Active thinking on the part of the reader is essential.
This issue of ‘red nose’ is an anniversary edition. The bilingual PDF magazine (English, German) is the organ of the international clowning group within the Section for Performing Art at the Goetheanum.
A synthesis of studies presented in ‘Living Farms’, the magazine published by the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum, illustrates how biodynamic farming contributes to food quality, animal wellbeing and ecological sustainability.
Artificially increasing body temperature is a therapeutic approach that aims to stimulate the human immune system and activate self-healing. A retrospective analysis of patients gives hope that this approach can be applied systematically in patients with post-Covid syndrome.
Farming is facing multiple challenges – economic, ecological and social. One approach to meeting them applied in biodynamic farming is to cultivate communities both in the soil and in the operations.
Many people spend their time more or less passively in front of a screen. In the New Pegasus Project young people use colour, form and sound to choreograph movements. They also look for repair-friendly alternatives to the throw-away products of entertainment electronics.
Even a hundred years after his death on 30 March 1925 Rudolf Steiner is seen as interesting, or irritating. Many continue to be inspired by him. Experiences differ widely as the magazine ‘Stil’ shows in its edition ‘Twenty-seven perspectives. How do I find Rudolf Steiner’.
