I believe that every person has their own secret to staying young; it\u2019s their secret pact with life. We let the spirit into our bodies, and it elevates nature somewhat. Someone who is particularly successful at this is Justus Wittich, who is now celebrating his 70th birthday. How does he manage to generate such a youthful aura? I suspect there are three ways: there\u2019s his interest in other people, revealed in the sparkle in his eyes. His eyes don\u2019t rest in a cave, gathering up the world and dissecting it in an inner laboratory, but are out there, giving and bestowing attention\u2014these are eyes that do not search but invite and ask questions. Then there are his irrepressible curls\u2014a symphony of cheerfulness and affirmation. And finally, there is the pain that moves across his face sometimes, as if he\u2019d just bitten into a lemon. I know of no one at the Goetheanum who shows regret and sorrow so openly and unguardedly as Justus does. Open to the outside world; open to the inside world. Yes, it is probably this openness with which he\u2014with which you, dear Justus\u2014seal your pact, no, your friendship with life. How fortunate we are to have you at the Goetheanum. How fortunate that for you, as you say in conversation with Enno Schmidt, this means being interested in everything. Yes, that’s how youth is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska I believe that every person has their own secret to staying young; it\u2019s their secret pact with life. We let the spirit into our bodies, and it elevates nature somewhat. Someone who is particularly successful at this is Justus Wittich, who is now celebrating his 70th birthday. How does he manage to generate such a youthful aura? I suspect there are three ways: there\u2019s his interest in other people, revealed in the sparkle in his eyes. His eyes don\u2019t rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":67532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8845],"tags":[11695,11697,8819],"class_list":["post-67763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-social","tag-ausgabe-36-2025-en","tag-english-issue-38-2025","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Image <\/strong>Justus Wittich, ca. 2013, courtesy photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"