Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2025 is the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death. How does he live on in specific individuals? Laura Krautkrämer, editor of the monthly magazine Info3 and PR consultant in the anthroposophical field, gives her answers.
Which sentence by Rudolf Steiner has particularly touched you and why?
“If you seek yourself, seek outside in the world; if you seek the world, seek within yourself.” I understand this saying as an invitation to be a person of our times with open eyes and a wide heart, to experience resonance and to practice empathy.
How do you realize in your outer life that you are interested in Rudolf Steiner?
By my interest in anthroposophical fields of practice and by my many years of work as an editor, copywriter, and communications consultant, mainly in this field. For almost 15 years, I have spent one to one-and-a-half days a week compiling a press review with news about Waldorf, Demeter, and the like for the Info3 Bewegungsmelder [Movement reporter] newsletter. I am still fascinated by how many places and in how many different ways Steiner’s ideas are still effective today.
Where has anthroposophy irritated you?
Less anthroposophy than some of its followers, when they appear dogmatic and arrogant, unworldly, or politically naive. And in the case of Rudolf Steiner, those passages in which he displays racist or anti-Semitic thought models.
In which human encounters did you come close to Rudolf Steiner?
Again and again, when I meet people who draw inspiration and strength from his ideas.
If anthroposophy were a mythical creature, what would it look like?
Perhaps like a phoenix. In any case, I wish for anthroposophy its resilience and ability to transform.
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