Cigarette manufacturer Emil Molt and writer Hermann Hesse were friends during their school days and became close again later in...
Albert Vinzens’ remarkable biography of Renate Riemeck (1920–2003) succeeds in sketching a detailed and authentic picture of his subject. Vinzens...
If Renate Riemeck (1920-2003) is known at all today, it’s as Ulrike Meinhof’s foster mother or perhaps as the author of anthroposophically oriented history books. That her name is largely forgotten a signature of her life, which itself is a mirror of the tragedy of German history in the twentieth...
One of Rudolf Steiner’s closest friends during his first years of study was Rudolf Ronsperger (Aug. 29, 1863–Oct. 2, 1890),...
The life of Helene von Schewitsch was so incredibly dramatic, so full of twists and turns, and populated with so...
Marginalia from the life and work of Rudolf Steiner. In his lecture of July 11, 1916, Rudolf Steiner described in detail how he met the Austrian mathematician and professor Oskar Simony (April 23, 1852–April 6, 1915) of the Institute for Soil Cultivation [Institut für Bodenkultur, today part of the University...
Der britische Mathematiker und als spiritueller Lehrer tätige John G. Bennett (1897 – 1974) erzählt in seinen Lebenserinnerungen ‹Das Durchqueren des großen Wassers›, wie nach einer intensiven Nahtoderfahrung am Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs seine spirituelle Suche begann.
Rudolf Steiner met the poet and bon vivant Otto Erich Hartleben (1864–1905) in Weimar, together with whom, for several years,...
This is a story of peace—a very influential and meaningful story, as far as peace in North America and beyond is concerned. But it’s not very well-known. It is the story of the Great Peacemaker, the founder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which today consists of Six Nations (originally Five). What...
The friendship with Otto Erich Hartleben that began in Weimar continued in Berlin. It offered Rudolf Steiner the opportunity to...
A conversation about the completion of the Collected Works (CW) [Gesamtausgabe (GA)] and the handover of the archive’s leadership was...
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