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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are two new buildings worthy of awards in the Goetheanum Park: the expressive Preparation Pavilion (designed by Yaike Dunselman) received the 2025 Iconic Award and the 2026 German Design Award; the Bee Sculpture (designed by Barbara Schnetzler) an ‘Honourable Mentions’ award from the architecture and design platform March and an appreciation award from the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland.
The new issue of ‘red nose’ #9 shows why laughter is the best medicine, what part clowning plays in this through all ages of people. And why it is more about the universality of being human than about personal or cultural differences in humour.
The staging of Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’ at the Goetheanum under director Jasmin Solfaghari has made history by including eurythmy. It also brought together art and science. The book on ‘Parsifal’ at the Goetheanum offers multiple glimpses, personal and professional, into this complex undertaking, a cooperation of Schott Music and Pamy Media Productions.
We need laughter, we need self-distance in order to develop. Since if we think we are doing everything right, there will be no development. And nothing to laugh about. Or even more so?
Art opens up new worlds. The Visual Arts Section at the Goetheanum has developed an Art Study Year and an Art Intensive Week to show how this works. The focus is on perception, activity and the sharing of experiences.
Six sold out performances including a gala event with Klaus Florian Vogt – that is Richard Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ at the Goetheanum directed by Jasmin Solfaghari. Three more performances will follow in 2025 as a cooperation between Pamy Mediaproductions and the Goetheanum Stage.
All actors are important with their voices, personalities and possibilities; they are all responsible for what happens. The Theatre Festival at the Goetheanum from 10 to 14 July offers practical insights into how Rudolf Steiner’s Speech and Drama Course lives today.
For the centenary of biodynamic farming Elif Oskan and Selassie Atadika offer a culinary evening at the Goetheanum with biodynamic ingredients from its own garden. The organizer, experimental gastronomy initiative ‘Steinbeisser’, likes to combine Haute Cuisine with artistically designed objects such as cutlery.
The exhibition ‘Light Leaf and Fire Form’ is a first encounter between Ferose’s iron sculptures and Stephane Zwahlen’s colour studies and ‘word works’. The Visual Arts Section at the Goetheanum has brought the two polar approaches together in a way that makes tangible what lives in the in-between in the works of both artists.
At the end of the 19th century Hermann Linde (1862–1923) was considered one of the eminent orientalist painters of his time. In 1915 Rudolf Steiner put him in charge of the painting of the First Goetheanum’s large cupola. Works from both these creative periods are shown for the first time in two exhibitions.
Family life has largely emancipated itself from external precepts. The need for personal development and reliability cannot be met with new directives. With its annual Family Festival, the Goetheanum creates a space for practical questions around the theme of ‘family today’.
Empathy with the world around us, dealing with loneliness and acting responsibly are challenges we face today as human beings. Wolfram von Eschenbach anticipated them in his Epic of Parzival. The Humanities Section at the Goetheanum is exploring this early approach to dealing with acquired and developed values in the field of tension between East and West.
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 will be devoted to the commemoration of this loss. The building was intended as a response to the social crises of World War I and the needs of that time: a spiritual impulse for cultural renewal.
Artistic activity makes familiar with creative processes. At the Goetheanum, the art impulse also lives as a stimulus for tasks in agriculture, medicine and education for instance. An Art Intensive Week reveals approaches in architecture, painting and sculpture.
