Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal...
Fragile and needy, a child comes into the world—a world in which we are fond of displaying strength, intelligence, and...
Ibrahim Abouleish stood under the expansive sun awning, and a thousand Egyptians sat with their forearms propped up on the semicircular clay steps of the amphitheater of Sekem listening to him. «It’s a fairy tale by Michael Bauer!» said eurythmist Christoph Graf, one bench away. Sekem itself – now under...
Karma is accident (Zufall in German): that which befalls you. At least in appearance. I cannot produce it myself—only experience...
The other day, I overheard a man at the train station on his smartphone saying, “Their expectation management really stinks.”...
When speaking of Africa, it’s not uncommon to speak of ‹Mother Africa› or the ‹motherland›, which corresponds to the Egyptian word ‹Afru-ika› (motherland). Africa: the cradle of humankind, and motherland, which also means: an abundance and an understanding of life itself as rich. People have lived in this part of...
If you ask people what is sacred to them, after some consideration, they’ll offer an answer: family, tranquility, freedom, peace,...
500,000 people have looked at Caroline Kube’s fingers showing how to crochet a potholder with a waffle pattern. These half-million...
That’s the feeling when you walk in the countryside, that feeling of fullness, often also of beauty. Certainly also about one’s own insignificance, but also about taking things for granted. Those who are out and about are more amazed by the yellow of the reeds or the sunspots under a...
I am experiencing consternation and solidarity everywhere these days. People with connections to Ukraine mobilize other people who had no...
Who could have imagined the twists and turns of the past two years? Our altered cultural landscape can’t be explained...
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