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Clowning: Expecting the unexpected, questioning the habitual…
Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 26 June 2026
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.
Under the motto “We have no programme; we are the programme” members of the International Group for Clowns in the Section for Performing Arts meet once a year at the Goetheanum.
In 2026 they practised the ancient philosophical maxim that a sense of wonder al-lows you to gain knowledge. Why is that? Because to be amazed means to expect the unexpected or to question the habitual. “We don’t rely on amazement to just happen, but we enable ourselves and others to be amazed, to wonder, to marvel at the world,” Sebastian Jüngel writes in the eleventh edition of the PDF journal ‘red nose’.
(English by Margot M. Saar)
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