Christopher Bamford, the long-time editor of SteinerBooks, crossed the threshold early in the morning of May 13, 2022. He had...
The death of Traute Lafrenz Page on the evening of March 6, 2023, two months before her 104th birthday, was...
For Michael Kurtz, who crossed the threshold on April 25, 2024. In the beginning, I was simply amazed. In 1988, a biography of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was published by Bärenreiter. The author: Michael Kurtz. I’d never heard of him. I’d studied at the Cologne University of Music, where Stockhausen...
Wolfgang Schad and I worked together on various scientific committees. With his incredible memory, his creative ideas, and his clear...
In memory of Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer (October 24, 1931–March 13, 2025) During a family vacation at the age of...
Marginalia on Rudolf Steiner’s Life and Work No. 22 – The Sister had the works of her famous brother read to her after her blindness. The deaf brother copied them after his death. Rudolf Steiner had two younger siblings: Leopoldine and Gustav. Both were born in Pottschach and had godparents...
Oskar Schmiedel (1887–1959) was the first to conduct research on Rudolf Steiner’s family. He personally visited descendants of the Blie...
Gudrun Krökel-Burkhard founded the anthroposophic art of healing, in all its many facets, in Brazil. After a long and energetic...
On the 150th anniversary of Goethe’s death, Schad gave a lecture in the hall of the Waldorf School Uhlandshöhe in Stuttgart, in which he compared assumptions of the normal natural scientist with the attitude of many autistic people. His remarks remain unforgettable to me. I got to know him better...
In Arabic, ‹shukran› stands for the German word ‹danke›. However, ‹shukran› is not sufficient to express every form of gratitude...
When asked to comment on the word ‹thank you› in my native language, Russian, I was quickly torn between two...
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