General Anthroposophical Society

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1 General Anthroposophical Society 2004/2005 1

2 Content 3 Editorial 4 Theme of the Year 2005/2006 Thinking with the Heart The Anthroposophical Society 5 Making a Friend of the Foundation Stone Meditation Interview with Ron Dunselman, General Secretary NL 6 Membership in Metamorphosis Report from the Membership Office at the Goetheanum The School of Spiritual Science 6 General Anthroposophical Section 7 Studying Anthroposophy Further Education at the Goetheanum 8 Natural Science Section 8 Section for Mathematics and Astronomy 9 Medical Section 9 Pedagogical Section 10 Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music 10 Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities 10 Agriculture Section 11 Section for the Spiritual Striving of Youth 12 Art Section 12 Section for Social Sciences Goetheanum 13 Interview with Carina Schmid, director of the Eurythmy Ensemble at the Goetheanum 14 Interview with Sarah Kane and Torsten Blanke, directors of the Drama Ensemble at the Goetheanum 15 Retrospective: Faust at the Goetheanum Selected Conferences 17 Treasurer s Report Addresses and Contacts 21 School of Spiritual Science 23 Goetheanum 24 Anthroposophical Society Worldwide Publication: General Anthroposophical Society Translation: Peter Luborsky Editing: Wolfgang Held, Bodo v. Plato Cover: Marion Ehrsam, Atelier für Gestaltung Layout: Christian Peter, Parzifal Verlag Printing: Kooperative Dürnau (DE)

3 Editorial Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society, With the passage of the years 2003/2004, the door seems to shut with evergrowing finality on the 20 th century. There is a general sense that we are living in a new century, and in anthroposophical circles the mood cautiously inquisitive, critical, hopeful or skeptical reflects this reality. We have just begun to discern the signatures and challenges of this new century; we have just begun to let go of our keenly-felt loss of the accustomed and open ourselves to new possibilities. In the annual report before you, motifs of this shift will be noticeable. Many things, however, are not to be found in this annual report: You will not learn how many dedicated anthroposophists have been working on the continued growth and development of the School of Spiritual Science, or on its demanding task of bringing new depth to cultural and life issues through their research and practice in spiritual science. Nor can reports capture the vitality that has been so palpable at gatherings great and small around the world and at the Goetheanum, where people have been envisioning a future for anthroposophical work, groups and societies. Finally, perhaps you will not miss the news of a special celebration we held at the Goetheanum on December 31 st, Following the Christmas Conference, when the four Mystery Dramas were performed for the last time in their present form, we bid farewell to the Drama Ensemble although most of the actors of the core ensemble will remain active at the Goetheanum Stage. This date may well mark the end of an artistic era. Despite certain objections, we are convinced that a caesura was needed for the further development of the dramatic work particularly that of the Mystery Dramas so that it can remain a focal point of our activities into the future. At this point we wish to extend to you a threefold thanks. Thank you for being active anthroposophically and so contributing to the vitality and development of the Anthroposophical Society. A heart-felt thanks for your donations which reach us at the Goetheanum through the groups, branches and societies in different countries. Without them the activities of which this report gives little reflections would not be possible. And finally a thank you relating particularly to the past year and the present one: Many members and groups within the Society are concerned at the amount of attention required by the legal proceedings around the existence of the Society which was founded by Rudolf Steiner at Christmas 1923/24. Although we share this concern, we feel an obligation both to Rudolf Steiner s futuredirected founding act and to coming generations. This demands absolute seriousness and often uncomfortable decisions. Your good wishes, support and patience in this battle and it is not one of our seeking call for our especial thanks. With the new theme of the year, introduced below by Virginia Sease, it is our intention to continue the central theme of Michaelic culture from the past two years. In this context we will place Schiller at the Goetheanum 2005 at the center of our activities, honoring the 200 th anniversary of the death of the great poet, philosopher and dramatist. With the staging of several dramas and with numerous conferences, lecture series and panel discussions, we will inquire into his significance for our entry into the 21 st century. The chosen motto Origins of the Future relates both to the present condition of humanity and to the special tasks of the Anthroposophical Society. We would be gratified and honored to welcome you to one of these events at the Goetheanum. With best wishes, for the Board of Trustees of the General Anthroposophical Society Bodo v. Plato 3

4 Theme of the Year Theme of the Year 2005/06 Toward Developing a Thinking of the Heart An individual who strives anthroposophically lives with the events of our time like any other contemporary person. But that person may also seek to read the signs of the times by looking for an approach to the general spiritual condition of the human being in the present time 1. This is why we have attempted for a long time to suggest current topics as possible themes for work for branches, groups, and individual members. The theme for this year can be considered a continuation of the themes for the past two years: The Metamorphosis of Cosmic Intelligence and the Development of Inner Refinement ( ) and The Metamorphosis of Intelligence and Co-responsibility for Current Affairs (2003/2004). In recent years, our age has come to bear the world-wide stamp of fear, of terror expressed in its most extreme forms. The shock felt in the soul revolves around three factors: the difficulty of finding inner balance; the inability to keep pace with the speed and acceleration of current events; and the lack of certainty brought by the unpredictability of our time. In short, we can say that people live continually between darkness and light, cold and warmth, as well as decay and growth in nature, in the human being, and in civilization. Are there ways to cope with this dilemma? In his lectures on The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas especially in the third lecture, The Importance of Thomism for the Present Rudolf Steiner describes how scholasticism gave the people of the Middle Ages a feeling of powerlessness when confronted by the separation between perception and the world of ideas. 2 The modem human being has generally lost a large part of this world of ideas. But human development remains a possibility because the world of ideas (which requires knowledge) will come to life if knowledge itself is a process of reality. 3 This process can lead to ethical individualism which is truly based on the Christ impulse in the human being, even though this is not expressly stated in the Philosophy of Freedom. 4 The central question is: How does Christ enter into human thinking? How is human thinking penetrated by the Christ? 5 This question arose in medieval scholasticism through the work of Thomas Aquinas, although no answer could be found. Then, however, Rudolf Steiner brings this question into the Michael Age as a challenge. An important facet of this question is found in the essay At the Dawn of the Michael Age, a focus of last year's work. 6 Today it is the will of Michael to live in human souls where thoughts are formed. He frees the thoughts from the realm of the head; he opens the way to the heart for them. The Michael Age has dawned. Hearts are beginning to have thoughts. 7 Elsewhere, Rudolf Steiner calls this ability thinking of the heart or heart thinking. But a disciplined schooling precedes this thinking, a schooling in regular logic on the physical plane in order to make another person of ourselves. 8 For in logical thinking we mainly experience a certain kind of conscience a kind of logical conscience, and when we develop this logical conscience, we acquire a general feeling of responsibility in our soul for truth and untruth; without this feeling of responsibility for truth and untruth we can accomplish little in the higher worlds. 8 Conscience can be understood as the foundation for a direct connection with the Christ, just as the 4 conscience in thinking arises from the human heart that is seeking knowledge of the Christ. The following statement exemplifies what has been said about thinking of the heart: What the human being experiences in the soul must be expressed in words, and we must never confuse the word with the thought. Likewise, the person who practices thinking of the heart must transform it into logical thought when he wants to communicate it to other people. Logical thought is not the thing itself; logical thought is just the language used to communicate thinking of the heart in spiritual science.... Thus, even when we hear the deepest truths of the heart in the form of thoughts, we must grow accustomed to finding that these thoughts are only form; behind them we behold the content. Some years later, in the Pedagogical Youth Course, Rudolf Steiner looked to the future and described the situation as follows: It is certainly a valuable thing if the person not only has thoughts, but also has a heart. The most valuable thing of all is when the thoughts have a heart. However, we have completely lost this. We can no longer shed the thoughts brought by the last four or five centuries; however, these thoughts must also receive a heart. 10 This year the Goetheanum commemorates the eightieth anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death. In our work we also want to turn to the great sculpture he created in wood, The Representative of Humanity, who strides forth between the opposing powers. A symbol of our time, this work of art can also serve as a basis for meditation, especially in light of the fact that it remained unfinished. In a spiritual sense, we take steps to complete it when we keep in mind how Rudolf Steiner revealed himself to be a master of heart thinking. With warm objectivity he showed the sovereignty of the Christ Ego over human shortcomings and the unpredictability of the age. In further connection with the theme for the year, it should be noted that 9 May 2005 is the two hundredth anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death. We look forward to seeing members and friends of the Goetheanum at the conferences and artistic events we are dedicating to this great spirit. Virginia Sease for the Executive Council and the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum Notes [Reference to German Collected Works in brackets] 1 Rudolf Steiner, Letters to the Members, Letter 4 [GA 260a, p. 49]. 2 Lecture of 24 May 1920 in The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (London, 1932) [GA 74, p. 99]. 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid., Lecture of 23 May 1920 [p. 71]. 6 At the Dawn of the Michael Age in The Michael Mystery (London, 1956) [GA 26, p.61]. 7 Ibid., [p. 62]. 8 Lecture of 24 March 1910 in Macrocosm and Microcosm (London, 1968) [GA 119, p. 208]. 9 Ibid., [pp ]. 10 Lecture of 3 October 1922 in The Evolution of Consciousness (Sussex, 1991) [GA 217, pp ].

5 The Anthroposophical Society THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Interview with Ron Dunselman, General Secretary, Netherlands Making a Friend of the Foundation Stone Meditation Open-minded, open-hearted Dutch culture has been shaken by two political murders of right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn and of film-maker Theo van Gogh. What have the repercussions of these events been? These horrible assassinations have led us Dutch to wonder if we are really as tolerant and liberal as we always thought. The wave of violence has made us aware what a tiny piece of earth this nation of 16 million lives on together, and that we all of our different cultures must get along with each other here. In the public discussion there is a growing recognition that when it comes to criticizing, the important thing is to be able to feel how the person criticized feels. Criticism requires responsibility that is a new sense. The consequences of our actions are beginning to register in our awareness, and this seems to be a sign of our threshold situation. Holland lies on the western edge of central Europe. The typical Dutch virtues of openness, practicality and mobility give you the name of the Americans of Europe. Do you agree? Yes, although of course we also are concerned about current developments in the United States. At the same time, they have tremendous opportunities. But back to us: Yes, we have an openness to the world, in our history as well. Many have gone out from here to all parts of the world; printing and newspapers came into being quite early in our land. Yet the eastern part of our country is better characterized by its esoteric tradition and the search for community. We stand between openness and inwardness and experience ourselves like scales holding the balance. What is there to report out of anthroposophical life in Holland? With the advent of the new century, we in Holland have set ourselves the goal of building the Anthroposophical Society upon the Foundation Stone Meditation. This is why at the beginning of each January for four years now we have held a conference in Driebergen to inquire how the Foundation Stone Meditation can be integrated into life. How can we make a friend of this text and its thought content? We are not so much concerned with profound insights here as with the practical aspects of living and working with it. On each occasion 200 members come together, and this sets a good climate for anthroposophical work the year round. Those charged with preparing this conference meet in August, and that too informs the year ahead. I would also like to report on a second initiative. A group of members who have been working together for four years now have taken on the task of supporting new initiatives. It might be inner, meditative support or it might be practical and concrete as well. Anyone who wishes to realize an intention can contact this group. We are trying to develop a culture of initiative. How is work developing in the School of Spiritual Science? As you know, in Holland we have leaders, or rather coordinators for the working areas of the various sections. Now we have partially relieved four of them of their responsibilities for three years so that they can better devote themselves to building up the sectional work. The readers meet every month for unstructured working sessions. These have a positive effect on our work with the class lessons. Are you financially in a position to free the coordinators of their duties? Yes, we can afford it, especially since we have received more money than expected from our members. We have also received a fair number of legacies with which we are financing this experiment. All sectional representatives meet each month with the Board of Trustees of the National Society. The life of the School of Spiritual Science is flourishing! A third aspect is our relationship to different areas of life. I meet every two months with the representatives of Demeter, the Waldorf Schools, and so on, to confer on common initiatives. The question of prime concern is what the School can do for the various areas of life and work. My impression is that the spheres of life have emancipated themselves from the Society, but now more questions are coming up as to how the work of the sections can be a source of concrete help to the working areas of the movement. Are there new areas of contact with the general public? Yes one in particular: In March there is a conference on the integrity of the child. State-school and Waldorf teachers and representatives of government agencies are meeting around the question How we can rescue childhood?. We are experiencing wide interest in this conference. In 2006 there will be a comparable event devoted to inner values. Have there been any attempts to reform the membership system? Yes, for example we now have a youth membership: Up to the age of 28 you can be a member for 25 Euros. Since we introduced this the number of young members has trebled. Certainly it has also helped that we have freed up someone one day a week to organize meetings and festivals with the young people. Then we have a one-year trial membership for those who wish to become acquainted with the Anthroposophical Society. You pay 50 Euros and then have the option of switching to a regular membership. In the anthroposophical groups we were able to find 25 ambassadors to be available for questions, background knowledge and encounters. This ensures that anyone who begins to take an interest in the Society immediately experiences a human encounter. In the past year we have gained 172 new members 50% more than in recent years. I suspect that our ambassadors have something to do with this. And then there is also the fact that in Holland one cannot be a member unless one pays a contribution. We only want members who make a financial contribution, because it is an expression of the will. All of our 4,300 members make a financial contribution to the Anthropo- 5

6 The Anthroposophical Society sophical Society. Of course it is possible to request a reduced rate, but whoever fails to respond after three letters is dropped from the membership rolls. You see, we have to pay attention to the will, because it will be the crucial factor in the coming years. Interview conducted by Wolfgang Held From the Membership Office at the Goetheanum Membership in Metamorphosis The relationship of many members to the Society is changing. Formerly, as a rule, there was a strong connection to branches and national societies, but now many new members would like to be connected primarily with the cause of Anthroposophy as such and support it without joining a group. To accommodate this need, there is the individual membership at the Goetheanum. Having a will to belong to the Society is enough, and in our view there is no need for a supporting signature of another member. For this reason since 2004 it has been possible to enroll as a member on the Goetheanum website. Still, the majority of new members continue to come in through the groups, branches and national societies. A second phenomenon to note here is that a relatively high number of members no longer maintain a connection to the Society though they do not formally withdraw. They disappear from the rolls of the national societies and groups because they no longer keep in contact or fail to report a change of address when they move. For this reason, national societies that purge their membership rolls suddenly find they have significantly fewer members and yet the lost members are alive and frequently very actively engaged in the movement somewhere. The Goetheanum plans to seek out all of these members in the course of the coming year to ask them what their intentions are. For this reason the current membership tally of around 50,000, which is based on figures from the national societies, is inexact. Because an intensive updating process was initiated last year both in the national societies and at the Goetheanum membership office, statistical comparisons of recent years membership tallies have little significance. As a tendency it can be said that due to withdrawals and deaths, the number of members in central Europe is going down slightly, while simultaneously in more distant countries the number is increasing to a slight extent. The reasons given for leaving range from loss of interest in Anthroposophy and the Society to annoyance at certain developments within our Society. Hans Hasler 6 THE SCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE General Anthroposophical Section Building Bridges to Rudolf Steiner s Writings Now that the Gesamtausgabe is available on HDD and on the internet, the entire body of Steiner s work is open to a precision search for any quote, reference or topic. Ironically, at the very same time there are many people who are simply no longer able or willing to read these texts. This fact points out a central task for sectional work: to build bridges for people to the forms which Rudolf Steiner gave, for they are forms out of which anthroposophical life can flow both within the Society and for the wider public. The study of Spiritual Science is the foundation of a healthy meditative life. Here, too, there is manifestly a great need for assistance, exchange and suggestions regarding practice. Hence we see it as an essential task of the Section to create occasions for this ourselves, to support existing events, and to connect individuals who are concerned with developing these competencies. We need people who are in a position to guide others into the work of Rudolf Steiner so that they can work further on it productively and independently. Here at the Goetheanum itself, as in years past we have held introductory and advanced seminars on a number of weekends as well as hosting working groups at the annual conferences. Working meetings are arranged on the theme of Study and Meditation. Furthermore, the Circle of General Secretaries and that of the National Representatives have decided to encourage strengthening existing working groups of this kind in the various countries or creating new ones. This will remain one of the prime tasks in the coming year as well. To be sure, these tasks are not the province of the General Anthroposophical Section alone, but are recognized and cultivated as essential foundation work in all sections. This is also true of the continuing work in the areas of study / meditation / study of man (H. Zimmermann), reincarnation and karma (P. Mackay), Christology and hierarchy studies (V. Sease, S. Prokofieff), social competence (C. Pietzner) and contemporary and evolutionary issues (B. v. Plato). Heinz Zimmermann Work within the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science At the November gathering with the readers, whose concern it is to transmit the contents of the First Class in their various regions and countries, as well as in conversations with School members and several national circles, the same questions captured attention: How can work on the contents be intensified? How can representation of the School of Spiritual Science be more conscious and effective? Since the publication of the Class lessons, the question has grown more insistent as to what membership in the School of Spiritual Science means and how the nineteen groups of mantras are to be worked with. After all, they were given primarily to members for individual meditation, with the intention of founding a community of representatives of Anthroposophy. Over the years different forms developed for communal work on these contents. Naturally the

7 The School of Spiritual Science quality of a working group depends on the competence and earnestness of its participants. There is a risk of succumbing to superficiality and degradation, just as the reading of the Class lessons is subject to the danger of ritualization. A serious but open exchange about such questions is needed indeed, it is essential if the School of Spiritual Science as a whole is to find the bridge from esotericism to world-openness and shine out as the soul of the Society. In this connection, Johannes Kiersch was commissioned two years ago to research the history of the First Class and especially its very first years, in order to gain a picture of which institutions go back to Rudolf Steiner, what developed later and, most particularly, how the members of the founding Board of Trustees immediately after Rudolf Steiner s death thought and acted in this regard. A first part of this project, which is being assisted by Virginia Sease, Heinz Zimmermann, Bodo v. Plato and Uwe Werner, should be completed in the course of this year. From July 2 9, 2005, the Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science is holding a School Conference at which the cycle of the nineteen Class lessons will be worked through in an open form. There is a widely shared intention to cultivate more intensively the sense of connection within the School and to meet the esoteric needs of the different areas of life, the Anthroposophical Society and the broader public through the activities of the Sections. Heinz Zimmermann Studying Anthroposophy Further Education at the Goetheanum I met Anthroposophy as a student, and in the last few years I have made it part of my life in a number of ways, attending lectures and taking part in a reading circle. Now I would like to work intensively on the basics of Anthroposophy, because otherwise I seem to be getting nowhere in my life. I keep coming to the point where my hectic life overwhelms every attempt to follow a path of inner practice. How can I combine everyday life and meditation and how and can I manage to develop a path myself? When we read Rudolf Steiner at our branch, there are some special, beautiful moments when we find it possible to know each other more deeply. But so often we never get beyond reading or we fall into discussions where quotes from Steiner are traded. Why is that, and what can I do as the discussion leader to make our work together more productive? Such experiences and questions are a starting point for the studies offered at the Goetheanum. The range of study-possibilities makes it possible to spend a shorter or longer time period in intensive exploration of the foundations of Anthroposophy or a particular subject of one s choice. Emphasis is placed on developing the capacity to reach an independent and individualized understanding of Anthroposophy as it applies to a scientific, artistic or professional area. The Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science at the first conference of the new year. From left to right: Werner Barfod, Martina Maria Sam, Nikolai Fuchs, Virginia Sease, Sergei Prokofieff, Christof Wiechert, Michaela Glöckler, Johannes Kühl, Bodo v. Plato, Paul Mackay, Cornelius Pietzner, Elizabeth Wirsching, Heinz Zimmermann. Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy, in German and English The one-year Anthroposophical Studies program in English and its counterpart, Grundstudium Anthroposophie, in German are devoted to building foundations and capacities for an anthroposophical path of knowledge and inner practice. The focus of study falls on basic anthroposophical works by Rudolf Steiner (Theosophy, Knowledge of Higher Worlds, The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity and An Outline of Esoteric Science). Artistic courses in painting, modeling, eurythmy and speech; introductions to various specialized fields by coworkers at the School of Spiritual Science; lectures, excursions and study projects all combine to enliven and deepen the experience and may provide professional perspectives or an opportunity for re-orientation in life. Participants from all continents and of all ages are welcome. These courses require a will to work independently but no specific training or education except for a basic knowledge of the German or the English language. The programs begin each year in October. Developing an Integrated Curriculum In the coming years all the course, study and further education possibilities offered at the Goetheanum are to be integrated both from conceptual and organizational points of view. This will make it possible to design individual programs for periods of studies-in-residence. In addition, the study-possibilities will be differentiated to meet various educational needs and ability levels and better coordinated in terms of subjects and dates. Continuing Courses on the Foundations of Meditative Practice In Anthroposophy a great variety of exercises are described, but no immediate indication is provided how they might be put into practice. For this reason it is important to become selfreliant in creating a ongoing, fruitful regime of practice. In weekend courses offered several times each year, a combination of conversation, presentation and artistic practice offers an opportunity to exchange experience in this area. 7

8 The School of Spiritual Science Christian Hitsch models a relief with students. Development Courses for Leaders of Working Groups and Branch Leaders It is impossible to predict whether a study gathering or a branch evening will be a success, and yet it is not simply a matter of chance. How can one s capacities for leading anthroposophical conversation and working groups be enhanced? These regularly offered courses center on sequences of practical exercises in discussion leadership, in group-work on texts and in creating introductions to group conversation. Speech and eurythmy exercises are integrated into the sessions. Individual Study Individual study at the Goetheanum is based on personal initiative on the student s part. Its form and content depend on the student s intentions and on the collaborative work with the mentor who accompanies it. Possibilities include basic scientific and artistic studies extending over a number of years as well as advanced studies. Specialized Study in the Other Sections A great variety of study-possibilities in the sections provide for study aimed at deepening basic knowledge in a specialized field. A detailed description of the various possibilities may be requested from the offices listed in the address section or accessed on the internet at Robin Schmidt Natural Science Section Empowered for Dialogue through Research Genetic research and its application, genetic technology, occupy a special place among scientific disciplines. No other field of research poses a comparable existential challenge to our image of the human being and to the ethical foundations of society. Although discussion of the dangers of life technology is certainly necessary and desirable, at the same time it has obscured some marvelous discoveries. For instance, it now appears that the number of human genes is so small that the idea of the genes as a score i.e., of a one-to-one correspondence between gene and feature must be regarded as false. Life itself an entire cosmos of relationships creates out of the limited number of genes an equal abundance of relationships. 8 We at the Research Institute of the Section wish not merely to follow these developments, but also to be active in gathering experiences and insights in this burgeoning realm. Thus, our project comparing conventional and genetically modified plants is to be continued, most likely to the point of re-enacting the experiments under various growing conditions. The numerous studies on plant cultivation in Switzerland, Germany and at the Louis Bolk Institute in Holland are also taking place within this context. The year 2005 is being celebrated around the globe as Einstein Year, marking 100 years since the first publication of Albert Einstein s central works. Not only will coworkers of the Section and the Research Institute (J. Grebe-Ellis, W. Sommer, F. Theilmann) present papers at conferences on topics in modern optics; in September, in conjunction with the Humboldt- Universität in Berlin and the Pädagogische Forschungsstelle Kassel, we will also conduct our own working conference open eyes 2005, which is to bring conventional theorists and Goetheanists, teachers and interested students into conversation and experimentation together. What is new here is not just the format of the event, but also the fact that it could be financed jointly by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the anthroposophical Damus Foundation and sponsors from the economic sector. The substantive progress of recent years is also becoming apparent in deepened collaboration, which will extend this year to Australia and the United States. In this way genuine research on substantive questions brings us into dialogue not only with the academic world, but also with interested anthroposophists around the globe. Details can be found in the annual report of the Section and at Two initiatives outside of Dornach: Anthroposophical scientists meet regularly in Holland in a common search for new research perspectives. The group of the Section in the United States is presently concerned with water and the etheric. This is planned to give rise to a public event devoted to ecology. Johannes Kühl Section for Mathematics and Astronomy The Lonely Earth Interdisciplinary cosmological research is currently beginning to lend credence to the view that earthly conditions are oriented entirely towards the formation of higher life and the human being. Hence by the law of chance, it is unlikely that another abode of higher life will be discovered in the entire cosmos. With its picture of extraterrestrial life, science fiction has presented us with a distorted image in fact a counter-image of higher worlds. Such images had tremendous cultural impact in the last third of the 20 th century. Now the scientific basis for them is being removed. Astrophysics continues to purvey its picture of a cosmos that is indifferent to life and to man, and this is responsible for a pervasive state of subliminal anxiety. Therefore it is not surprising that, alongside questions of education and health, cosmology is one of the major entry points into spiritual questions. Anthroposophical astronomy has a task of cultural hygiene here: to convey a scientifically founded yet inherently meaningful picture of the world in which the earth is not a speck of dust but a germinal seed, man not an accident but a hope.

9 The School of Spiritual Science At the beginning of January, the Section hosted a public study conference on the multiple relationships of the sun to the human being. One topic of inquiry was the effect of the sun s universality and power on the human personality, which may be wholesome or destructive depending on whether it encounters an I or a void. During the past year the Section was temporarily represented by Johannes Kühl. Starting in the summer of 2005 Oliver Conradt will assume responsibility for the Section for Mathematics and Astronomy. Wolfgang Held Medical Section Integration and Exchange Across the Gamut of Working Areas Anthroposophical medicine is now at home in 67 countries. It is represented on all continents and has the opportunity to play a role in the academic, legal-political and economicsocial discourse of contemporary medicine. It occupies an interesting middle position between the various schools of alternative medicine, most of which have roots in ancient spiritual traditions, and the scientific medicine of our day. Because it takes as its starting point the thinking human I, it can also find points of connection to new approaches in modern health science and to Aaron Antonovsky s concept of salutogenesis. This accounts for the wide range of working areas and fields of action of anthroposophical medicine. Presently the Association of Anthroposophical Physicians in Germany is working on a concept for postgraduate medical training ( Legal and political issues are dealt with under the framework of the International Federation of Anthroposophical Medical Associations/IVAA ( The function of the Section for Anthroposophical Medicine is to offer a place of integration for the international exchange of information in research, training and practice, as well as for the various fields of endeavor. Information on current activities and the groups bearing responsibility can be found in the annual report, the newsletters and the journals Der Merkurstab ( and Seelenpflege ( The annual report of the Section can be ordered from the Section office; our new brochures can be obtained from the Kooperative Dürnau, telephone: , fax: , vertrieb@kooperative.de. Their purpose is to inform the public about anthroposophical medicine in research and practice. Michaela Glöckler Pedagogical Section The Child First Last year the Organization for Economic Cooperative Development (OECD) published the results of the second PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) study, a follow-up on the 2000 PISA. The results are interesting in that they present an international comparison of learning output. There was little reaction from the countries which received good evaluations or from those with bad grades (a sign of resignation). Yet there were some nations in which the PISA study was painstakingly discussed in official circles as well as among the public. The press spoke of PISA shock. Now PISA is becoming an excuse to toot the same horn we have heard with economic globalization: We are in competition international competition over education. Certainly the study may open some eyes in a healthy way to the idea of all-day schools, for example. The threat remains, however, that governments will require students to meet PISA standards in order to raise their international ranking. What began as a tool for analysis is being taken as a standard for goal-setting! When we lose sight of the child, we lose the measuring rod for any reform it will inevitably deviate in a pedagogically unwholesome direction towards one extreme or the other. From discussions of international pedagogical norms to the development of teachers imaginative faculties, the World Teachers Conference at the Goetheanum was a high point of the past year. After two years of preparation, more than 1,000 Section Collegium (standing): Martyn Rawson (GB/DE), Lothar Steinmann (DE), Robert Thomas (CH), Claus-Peter Röh (DE), Heinz Zimmermann (CH), Hartwig Schiller (DE). Seated: Gesine Fay (DE), Christof Wiechert (CH/NL), Ellen Fjeld Köttker (N). Not in photo: Dusan Plestil (CZ), Penelope Johnstone (GB). colleagues from 52 countries gathered to work on the sources of imagination in teaching. These were stirring days, in which one could feel the pulse of the worldwide school movement. For the coming years we have made an agreement of cooperation with the founders of the Initiative für Praxisforschung (ipf) in Switzerland, Urs Hauenstein and Thomas Stöckli, and further partners are to join them. Together we intend to work at the place where the art and science of education meet. In addition to the regular conferences and colloquia and in conjunction with schools in our region we are offering a program in pedagogical child study. We expect it to be in great demand. We are also eager to discover how the initiative of an international teacher s journal will be received. It is to appear biannually and will be carried by the editorial staff of the German teachers bulletin and the sectional newsletter. Colloquium and conference work on the study of man continues to grow; it is a core activity of the Section. Alongside of this, we are turning to a new area: It has been justly claimed that Waldorf education has a strengthening and healing effect on the child. We now intend to investigate if, in addition to its established long-term effects, a physiological action of anthroposophical pedagogy is visible right in the classroom. Christof Wiechert 9

10 The School of Spiritual Science Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music Tested to the Breaking Point, a New Beginning The comfortable conditions of our modern lives exact a price: They lessen the experience of our own incarnation. We derive our sense of existence less and less from our senses. Whether in sports or in the modern movement arts, the focus for the human body is now on technical precision and peak performance. Many people derive their sense of bodily existence from such experiences of perfection and pushing their physical limits. What is neglected here is the capacity for soul expression and this is the supreme task of the anthroposophically inspired arts. Today these arts are being tested to the breaking point on a number of fronts. The forms from the foundation period have become tradition and are no longer viable hence the loud cries for the new. The movement for new expressive forms is justified and significant, but it risks failing to recognize the nature of the real test: Can we school ourselves sufficiently, can we deepen our relationship to the world in which we live to such an extent, that the impulses we draw from Anthroposophy become a new artistic reality on our own individual path? For this reason the primary task is to re-form the eurythmy and speech training centers. We are right in the middle of this process one that will also place new didactic demands on the training leaders. They will need a heightened awareness for what they are doing. While remaining intimate with their practice, they must deepen their anthroposophical foundations. To ensure this, mandatory further training of leaders is needed as well as dependable financing for the training centers. In the past year much has been achieved in this area, as well as in the cooperation between eurythmy schools and teachers seminars. We are gratified that eurythmy teachers diplomas are now officially recognized in Oslo, the Hague, Capetown and Järna, and the same is expected in Alfter and Stuttgart. A plethora of specialist conferences and regular colloquia in the four categories of eurythmy, speech, puppetry and music support this new beginning. It can be seen in the artistic treatment of the Mystery Dramas as well: We have founded a research group to better understand how different planes of existence (soul world and spirit world) can be appropriately represented in drama. What we call the eurythmy encounters have developed productively: At regular intervals, two ensembles are invited to present their programs, which are then thoroughly discussed among eurythmy colleagues as well as with the audience. In this way lack of interest or even wariness has yielded to a stable mutual respect, which builds the foundation for new forms of collaboration. All events of the Section are listed in the agenda overview, which can be ordered from the Section. Werner Barfod Section for Literary Arts and Humanities Crisis in the Humanities: What is Our Task? In an age increasingly dominated by economic and utilitarian thinking, it becomes more and more difficult for the humanities to gain legitimacy. Already largely confined to the ivory towers of universities for several decades, they now find even this 10 sanctuary endangered: At several universities in Germany and Switzerland massive financial cut-backs have been announced for the humanities in the coming years as well as the closing of institutes and departments and the abolishment of chairs. This reflects their growing insignificance in the public discourse: The humanities seem to have limited relevance for technology and the sciences, which determine the development of society. Nor can it be said that the humanities, as they have plied their trade in past decades, are without fault in this: Do the sciences of the spirit (as they are called in German) or rather those who represent them still possess any concept of what the object of their study is? Do they have a concept of spirit? Do they use or seek methods appropriate to the objects of their fields of study: the cultural products of the human being, the products of the creative spirit? Do the humanities the literae humaniores, schöne Wissenschaften or belles lettres still contribute anything to the cultivation of the human being? These are some of the burning questions of the day which the Section for Literary Arts and Humanities (or those active in it) wish to address. What would a research method appropriate to its objects one that does justice to the present and past products of the human spirit be like? And how can the fruits of such research be conveyed to a wider audience? With these considerations in mind, the calendar for 2005 features events dedicated to Friedrich Schiller, Adalbert Stifter and Franz Kafka. The work of these authors is to be treated in such a manner that their contribution to existential questions of modern life can still be experienced. The central event will be the Whitsun Conference, The Destiny of Man: Schiller s Impulses for German Idealism and the Modern Age. In the field of cultural and consciousness history, two conferences are planned: Greek Mysteries and The Grail in the East: Art and Cultural History of Armenia. Worldwide sectional work continues with colloquia, conferences, seminars, lectures, readings, etc. in the fields of literature, poetry, language studies, stylistic studies, fairytales, aesthetics, history, philosophy and art history. National groups exist already in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Great Britain/Ireland, New Zealand and North America. In the Netherlands and the francophone countries they are in formation. An overview of activities worldwide is published annually in the Events Calendar of the Section. It appears in English and German and may be ordered from the Section. Martina Maria Sam Agriculture Section* More or Less Success in a Difficult Environment Beyond its primary agricultural functions of producing food and acting as a steward of the landscape, modern ecological farming must presently confront three additional areas. For one thing, wholesalers and consumers exert considerable pressure on costs; it takes inventiveness and community thinking to stand up to this economizing without sacrificing quality. At the same time rules for coexistence must be worked out with genetically modified agriculture. Amid this clamorous battle the third area is forgotten: New regulations, such as those on hygiene, threaten to drive living agriculture into a corner.

11 The School of Spiritual Science Furthermore, as attention shifts to less expensive agricultural regions in the new member states of the EU, the future of agriculture in the high-wage countries is increasingly referred to with a question mark. This is a situation in which anthroposophical competence is asked, to make it clear why for reasons of cultural and spiritual hygiene a civilization needs farming in its midst. Among all the areas of life, agriculture is uniquely able to teach our abstract modern world a sense for reality. In colloquia, in our courses and at our large annual conference, we have devoted intensive study to the economic issues of agriculture over the past year. Our conclusion has weighty practical consequences: An economic deficit is a deficit in togetherness. New ideas on how to complement each other s needs have grown out of this theme of the year. After the successes in cultivation over the past few years, we are pleased to report that we have succeeded in breaking into wide-scale marketing of organic seed. Without the annual donations of ca. 2 mio. Euros for organic seed this unparalleled step would have been unthinkable. We have met public criticism offensively, publishing studies on the past of the bio-dynamic movement under National Socialism and working together with the Forschungsring für Biologisch-Dynamische Wirtschaftsweise (DE) to clarify the concept of hygiene in a comprehensive way. The results of the Klosterstudie (Convent Study) on the effects of a consistent bio-dynamic diet were surprisingly significant and met with gratifying interest in the media. Two new scientific coworkers have taken up their work in the Section: Danica Jancaryova is studying warmth processes in agriculture and nutrition, and Florian Leiber is exploring the science question. This work should help bio-dynamic agriculture gain more credence in the scientific discussion, not only for its fruits but also for its conceptual penetration. Nikolai Fuchs *By decision of September 29, 2004, the Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science has renamed the former Agriculture Department of the Natural Science Section as the Agriculture Section. Section for the Spiritual Striving of Youth Enthusiasm through Community For young people today, experience of the spiritual seems quite natural. Their questions are: How can the spiritual be brought into practical life? What kind of faculties must we develop? Over the past years the average age of our conference attendees has grown younger. Even at the Faust Conference with its 750 participants, it was upper school students who set the tone. It is characteristic of our times that the existential questions come early. That is why it is so important at this age to meet authentic human beings. This is the function of our international conferences and the CONNECT Conference for school students, which is designed to provide an overview of career and professional life today. Our experience shows that when you put young people at the threshold of their career lives together with individuals who have found their places and purposes in life, an amazingly positive exchange takes place... Humanity in its entirety can be seen as an organism. We have to reach an understanding of our entire society if we want to be or become a healthy part of it. - Reinoud Meijer, CON- NECT project leader. A new initiative: IDEM identity through initiative. How does a young person today find his or her identity in a time when the old identity structures of family, work, training, profession and nationality are losing their meaning? IDEM will try to be the Faust Youth Conference at the Goetheanum mediator between searching young people and individual projects where there are people who want coworkers and can also mentor and accompany them on a modern path of spiritual knowledge. Valentin Vollmer, IDEM coworker and project leader: Many young people would like to make a contribution towards a truly social development of the world. These motivated young people are the resources of future society. Not to support them is irresponsible to the development of a young person and irresponsible to the future. Another function of the Youth Section is to be a gateway to Anthroposophy. To accomplish this, we build up a network of young people who are striving to get nearer to the core of Anthroposophy. At the moment there are twelve youth groups meeting each year in such countries as Japan, South Africa, the United States, Sweden and Ukraine. We also organize a variety of study groups at the Goetheanum. At these it is important for us to speak directly about exercises, ways of working with them and personal experiences. A typical question is: How can my practice in Anthroposophy become visible in my life? The collective work takes place primarily in group discussions on working with the mantras. The picture would not be complete without mentioning our new contacts with other youth organizations, such as the Christian Community, a university student initiative within the Waldorf movement and EOS (Studies in Experiential Pedagogy). An invaluable fruit of these meetings is to gain the feeling that we are all in the same boat. That generates enthusiasm! For the year 2007 a conference is planned in collaboration with the Christian Community. At the beginning of the year something wonderful happened! At our January Days conference for school and university students, all the members of the Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science joined us. With only 65 participants, the resonance to this conference was limited, but the intensity of work we experienced gives us confidence we are on the right path. Our work makes a contribution towards the question, How can we, the Youth Section, take up contact with the Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science? After all, there are not many members of the 11

12 The School of Spiritual Science General Anthroposophical Society at the moment. For one thing, spontaneous and significant encounters with members of the Board of Trustees can happen here; for another, the open atmosphere of this meeting helps us to be attentive to the attitudes, questions and insights of the next generation. On various occasions we have invited members of the Board of Trustees, representatives of the national societies and others who bear responsibility in the anthroposophical world into our cozy café for supper and a talk. We are guided by a law which hopefully will never change: New impulses always arise out of the meeting of human beings. Elizabeth Wirsching Art Section Images that Nourish The hunger for images remains unbroken in our culture, but the images inundating our eyes touch our souls less and less. Amusing ourselves to death is the way media critic Neil Postman who died last year wittily describes this externalization of the image. The death he refers to is of the soul. To support a process whereby the image in architecture, sculpture and painting might regain depth and thus humanity in a modern way, is among the central tasks of the section. Last spring Christian Hitsch stepped down as Section leader. The search committee for a successor, under the leadership of Martina Maria Sam, has become convinced that after having been molded artistically by Christian Hitsch, the Section needs a transitional period of several years before it can set off in new directions in freedom. Until new leadership has been appointed, Paul Mackay has offered his services as interim leader in order to maintain the connection between the artists associated with the Section and the Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science. A committee has been formed to confer on the concerns and initiatives of the Section. It consists of: Paul Mackay (Section leader), Luigi Fiumara (architecture, coordination, budget), Bettina Müller (painting), Astrid Oelssner (sculpture), Thorwald Thiersch (coordination art-studies year, exhibitions). Wolfgang Held the arts. With the civil society movement, more and more people have taken an interest in these new and eminently practical ideas. At the World Social Forums in Porto Alegre, many people s attention was drawn to these concepts of practiced humanity. It is in this connection that two representatives of this movement, Ibrahim Abouleish of Egypt and Nicanor Perlas of the Philippines, were awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize. In 2004, socially engaged anthroposophists took part in the World Social Forum in India. There were many conversations and an interest became apparent in the connection between spiritual development and social action. The connection of people from all over the globe working for the impulse of the threefold social organism and the anthroposophical initiatives in India has led to productive new impulses. This was followed in March by a conference at the Goetheanum at which reports were given on these activities. At the same time the two winners of the Alternative Nobel Prize were honored. Dr. Abouleish gave an impressive presentation on the impulses of his SEKEM initiative, which he described at the award ceremony as an economy of love. Early in the year 2005 there was a corresponding participation at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, in which a student group from the Swiss Rudolf Steiner schools took part. In May, 2004, the international Culture of Peace conference took place with dedicated peace researchers and activists. Conflict management and business development consultant Fritz Glasl painted a picture of human coexistence: They build with ideas. They experience movements in togetherness. They relate elements of order to one another, think structures into them and open up new fields of thought and experience. Ideas draw one another, leading to new constellations In April, 2005, we will host another conflict conference, entitled Personal Responsibility and Conflict: Self-Responsibility Self-Transformation Self-Government. Ulrich Rösch Section for Social Sciences Building Social Life with Consciousness Since the end of the twentieth century, the consequences of global trade and economic activity have touched even remote corners of the earth. Rudolf Steiner recognized at an early date that economic considerations would take on a global economic character: The whole earth, thought of as an economic organism, is the social organism. Under the auspices of the Section for Social Sciences, for many years people around the world have been approaching the social question outside of existing ideologies. When we are able to look at the phenomena without prejudice, solutions to the problems of humanity will appear. This social idea was presented by Rudolf Steiner as the Threefolding of the Social Organism. Out of the new image of the human being there also arose models for schools, curative homes, alternative medicine, agriculture and a renewal of 12

13 The Goetheanum The Eurythmy Ensemble at the Goetheanum Interview with Carina Schmid Now or Never I Knew It in my Bones Alongside Faust at the Goetheanum 2004, a central event here last year was your staging of Beethoven s 7 th Symphony with the Stuttgart Eurythmeum ensemble. What was the significance of this new approach of coproduction? It really was something new, this joint venture with Stuttgart. At first we were feeling our way, wondering with our obvious differences how it could work. But we wanted to work together, and that was the crucial thing. Over time we began to notice that we all had something to learn from our differences. As a teacher I was able to receive much from Benedikt Zweifel, the director of the Stuttgart ensemble, and as he said, because of seeing us some things changed in his staging approach too. A daring undertaking, to envision a grand tour with an orchestra in a time of dwindling audiences. Yes, it took courage. Total courage. Essentially everything stood against it: Faust, the financing, experience. Right from the start we were told: You will not get any funding because Faust needs all the support. For Wilfried Hammacher, the Faust director, it was not easy either having us working on this symphony during Faust season. I knew it was now or never. I knew it in my bones, and you do not often have that experience. If it did not happen now, the moment would be gone. And then the unexpected happened: Almost all the performances were sold out; in some cases we could have held two or three performances. What accounts for this success? It was curiosity. Many people wondered: What are these two groups doing together? It simply belongs to our time to embrace what is different. Also of course a great symphonic work generates enthusiasm, and Beethoven s 7 th can hardly be matched for that. What was the artistic motive? Art must return to the theaters. People need to be filled with enthusiasm this is what I want to accomplish. Our aim was to juxtapose the classical and the modern. At first we wanted to do Gubaidulina she also wrote a symphony but unfortunately we soon discovered: too big, too expensive. Then we came on the idea of doing a Shostakovitch string quartet rewritten for orchestra. But now it became difficult because the Stuttgart eurythmists have a completely different movement body. It had to come together and it came together. You now can look back on 35 performances of the Beethoven- Shostakovitch program, many of them on great stages. Were there any high points? One special moment was in Salzburg. In this historic town there is an enormous stage with 1,900 seats! It was a daring move on the part of the Salzburg contingent who did the preparatory work. You were aware that you were entering a space rich with musicality. You lift your arms and are actually inside the music. I have never experienced that before: The whole ether space is filled with musical sound, you sense which great artists have conducted here, which world-class orchestras have played here. Another experience from the tour: In Kiel at three o clock on a Sunday afternoon we held a performance just for school students. It was packed. The students certainly let us feel their enthusiasm. That moved me deeply these young people are the future, after all. And what about the finances? In October we had a review with our patrons. Was the investment worthwhile? How should it continue? And the response from all the sponsors was: It has to happen again and we are behind you. Thus in 2006 we will embark on a new symphony project with Stuttgart. It is interesting to me that we were asked. The first time I knew it had to be, but a second time you must be asked, and now that has happened. Which works do you intend to take up? Probably Mozart, since it is the Mozart year, and also Schnittke. But that is in the future. Right now we intend to turn to Gubaidulina. Our Gubaidulina project begins on the 21 st of February 2005 with Heinrich Schütz s Seven Last Words. It will premiere this summer at the Goetheanum and in the fall we take it on tour. I myself will be in Sweden at that time for a solo program. The first time in my life! I never wanted to do a solo program, the idea of it seemed awful to me. But years ago Peter de Votho asked me. From ensemble members one often hears that there is too little time for new artistic developments. A number of sessions cancelled due to illness made us revise our plans, so for the first time since I have been here five years now a space has opened up to develop something, which will be the Foundation Stone Meditation. We intend to take an entirely new approach to laying the foundation stone. The Foundation Stone Meditation is the theme of your life, is it not? That s right, but now it will be approached freshly with the whole ensemble. We intend if I may say it to put tradition aside and go on a quest. It may be that we ll come back to the old way again, but not until tomorrow. For once we want to question everything, in the best sense. The whole morning, every day doing research work. What are your visions for the coming years? In the Ensemble we have also resolved to begin research work on the Mystery Dramas. This means now, not waiting until the performances are in the planning stage it is too late then. In the fall we have some open periods and I am looking forward to experimenting with the differences between speech space and eurythmy space. You ask about visions? I have many Interview conducted by Wolfgang Held 13

14 The Goetheanum Drama Ensemble at the Goetheanum Interview with Sarah Kane and Torsten Blanke The Question of Who and What the Human Being is Can only be Answered on the Stage At the turn of the year 2004/2005 you assumed directorship of the drama ensemble. How would you describe your path to theater, which has now led you to the Goetheanum stage? SK: It began around my ninth year. My mother wanted me to speak English properly, because in England pronunciation has enormous social significance. She sent me to elocution lessons, where I learned to recite poems. My father was in the R.A.F. and we were stationed in northern Germany for 3 years, so I met the German language at an early age. And later you studied the German language? SK: Yes, I started learning German when I was 14. I developed a love of the language and majored in German Studies at university. My first encounter with Anthroposophy came when I was After completing my degree in German, I wanted to become a Waldorf teacher and with this in mind I studied Creative Speech, and drama, for a year and a half. After eight years as a Waldorf teacher, and after further years of study of Creative Speech, I began earning my living as an artist when I took over the one-year Speech and Drama Course at Emerson College from Dawn Langman. And this is when you encountered Chekhov? SK: I always had the question how to unite speech and drama. While still in training I took courses on Mikhail Chekhov s approach to acting and there I found a key. So I kept working deeper into Chekhov s approach, until I received an invitation to teach at an international Chekhov conference in Moscow in Before I came to the Goetheanum I was Joint Artistic Director of a small theater in Washington D.C., where I was able to work with Chekhov s approach as well as with Creative Speech for the stage. TB: It was a bit different in my case. I did not need to search for the theater it was in the family. As a child, I was often at my father s rehearsals in the theater. I knew the Oldenburg theater as well as I knew our apartment. My parents were active in the initiative group for founding the Waldorf school there. 14 The first school assemblies were held in our large apartment, and this is where I recited my first poems, at the age of eight or nine. After some initial experiences with theater at school, my choice of profession was made: actor and farmer! What do these occupations have to do with each other? TB: On the surface of it, perhaps nothing, but I had the sense that what I wanted to become was not an expert but a universalist. Farming and drama to me at that time, those embodied the two ends of the world. After my training as a farmer at the Dottenfelderhof, at the age of 24, I began my drama and speech training with Wilfried Hammacher in Stuttgart and worked for a few years at the Novalis stage there. Later there were unaffiliated productions, for example the first Mystery Drama, which was staged by Heinz Friedrich. When our family had grown to three children, we needed more economic security. As an actor I had experienced the blade of economic necessity cutting further and further into the free cultural scene. At that point my wife founded an event agency, which organized events for organizations and businesses, while I initially wrote a book and took care of the children. Then, later, came the seminars and workshops as well as my advisory and organizational tasks. What in your new tasks at the Goetheanum Stage do you particularly relish? SK: I am interested in the question of the relationship between Anthroposophy and acting. In my training in Creative Speech little time was given to acting, and above all, it was said that one should not begin acting too early because it ruins the voice. Well, I come from England, and there the theater occupies a high position in cultural life, even today. In my school years I acted in plays and going to the theatre, usually to see Christmas pantomimes, made a deep impression on me as a child. The role of acting in Creative Speech trainings today is different, but the question has stayed with me: How can we develop, out of the riches, out of the enormous substance of Creative Speech, an approach to the high art of theatre that is appropriate today? That is one of our projects here it has been a project ever since Marie Steiner s times. And I hope I can make a contribution to it out of all that has moved me in the past decades and what I have researched. Today, each person must achieve his or her own humanity. What role does theater have to play in this? SK: I find the question of our humanity central to what happens on the stage today and in the future. If we work with this issue, theater may re-find its own identity. Of course film and television can present many things in a superficially more exciting way, and the theater has tried and in some cases still tries to copy film and television in this. But in my view that is not where the task of contemporary theater lies. It lies in working through the question of who or what the human being is, the human being as actor, initiative-taker, with everything that entails. And in this the imagination, the inner activity of the spectator plays a crucial role. TB: Inwardness is easily confused with boredom. Sometimes the audience expects action. The particular possibility that theater as opposed to film has, is to appeal to the capacity for inner experience; the spectator becomes co-active. It is

15 The Goetheanum in the dialogue between the stage and the spectator that the work of art comes into being. SK: In recent years I have observed in courses I have given for professional actors that they seldom have the capacity for the expression of what I might call psychological subtleties. Stage language often remains mechanical since it is trained in a technical way in the ordinary theater world. In addition, nowadays and I know this from England and America plays are rehearsed for four to six weeks and then they have to be performed. In that short time you can create a technical performance, but the artistic process remains undeveloped. I am eager to work together with actor-artists here who have been trained through their speech work in these psychological subtleties. I believe that Creative Speech has enormous potential. It is evident that we need to re-examine all those things to do with the stage that we have long taken for granted. How do these show up in anthroposophical theater? TB: By the end of my acting career I was marked, just as I have seen it happen to many of my colleagues in this profession. You are a speech artist and have scarcely any contact with normal actors. Frequently I had the feeling that in spite of all my artistic attempts and even successes, I was up against a wall a wall between me and not only the general cultural and theater life, but also the audience. The key turned out to lie in my entering into the questions of people who were active in business, and inquiring together how art can enrich social and economic life. I did this intensively in my book project and later in the seminars. In this way I was able to overcome the wall and now come back to art from the other side. Does that make you feel like a member of the contemporary world? TB: Absolutely. To be customer-oriented that catchword is something I learned from this work. To ask others about their questions. We know that there are a growing number of people with spiritual experiences, interested in spiritual things, cultural creatives, many of them surely pupils of Michael. What can we do to become interesting to this group of people to help them find us and ourselves find them? SK: I also think it is crucial at this beginning to see what is really needed. I know people expect new stage directors to come in with a great fanfare and say, here is what we are going to do. That is not our attitude. We first want to get to know this place and its people. We want to enter into conversation, so that we can carry the best of what has lived here on into the future. Even so, let me ask what projects you have in mind. SK: We will of course be working with the Mystery Dramas in the coming years, but the form will be crucial. Apart from this, we intend to continue giving prominence to the classics, as has been done with Faust in 2004 and Schiller this year. We also wish to develop children s programs and various other projects which should become clearer by summer. You have only recently formed a work team, nevertheless let me ask: What do you appreciate in one another? SK: Torsten and I start from very different positions, but the amazing thing is that we generally come to the same conclusions in our deliberations. What I value in Torsten is that he puts difficult questions and there are enough of them squarely on the table. I sense that he finds the right language for speaking to the public. I am also very glad that he brings so much experience in public relations. TB: The task of stage directing is Janus-headed. On the one hand we need to work intensively on artistic quality. The substance, the particular capacities and the profile of the stage must be cultivated and developed further. At the same time the challenge is to present this appropriately and offensively. These two sides are reflected to a degree in the two of us, in our professional biographies and experiences. From all that I have experienced of Sarah up till now, I am convinced that she brings with her exactly the capacities we will need for this kind of ensemble work. SK: Yes, the duality of the current artistic directorship is very typical of the theatre, since everything is centered on the space between. And that is how it is between us, too. The renewal of the Goetheanum stage, so we hope, will be created and shaped between us. Interview conducted by Wolfgang Held Faust at the Goetheanum Between April and August 2004 Goethe s Faust was performed 17 times in unabridged form at the Goetheanum, in addition to numerous partial previews. 11,000 visitors came ca of them for the first time to see this work under the direction of Wilfried Hammacher. 800 costumes and 21 hours of performance duration give only a superficial impression of the artistic and technical demands which this greatest dramatic work in German literature placed on acting, eurythmy and stage technology. The reactions in the media (over 200 of them in newspapers, radio discussions and television reports) as well as numerous opinion polls reflected a surprisingly fresh view of the artistic work of the Goetheanum Ensemble: While earlier Goetheanum stagings of Faust were described as exotic lay drama for special audiences, normalcy has now set in. The Goetheanum is now considered one of the professional festival venues of Europe and is mentioned in the same breath with other great stage projects, such as Peter Stein s also uncut staging of Faust (Hannover, Berlin, Vienna) in Interesting points of criticism were that the ensemble needs to be more open to experimentation and to the comical element. Wolfgang Held 15

16 Events Selected Events 2005/06 The School of Spiritual holds conferences, colloquia and seminars. This year, the complete list of events is only available online at Most sections publish their own overviews. April 8 10 & October 7 9, 2005, Goetheanum The Art of Child Study Sponsor: Pedagogical Section April 9 15, 2005, Goetheanum CONNECT Conference Sponsor: Youth Section International career orientation conference for 12 th grade students April 23, 2005, Driebergen, Zeist (NL) The Being of Water Sponsored by the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands In spite of all that is known about water, its essential nature poses riddles April 29 to May 5, 2005, Ilan (TW) Asian Waldorf Teachers Conference Sponsor: Asian Initiative Group May 20 22, 2005, Kassel (DE) Members Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society in Germany Sponsored by the Anthroposophical Society in Germany May 7 9, 2005, Goetheanum Sectional Conference for Scientists Sponsored by the Science and Agriculture Sections (for members of the School of Spiritual Science) May 13 15, 2005, Goetheanum Whitsun Conference The Destiny of Man Sponsored by the Section for Literary Arts and Humanities Schiller s impulse for German Idealism and the modern age June 3 5, 2005, Goetheanum Family Culture Conference Sponsored by the Section for Social Sciences June 13 19, 2005, Goetheanum 3 rd World Conference on Biography Work Sponsored by the Social Science Section June 27 30, 2005, Goetheanum Meeting of Graduating Classes of Eurythmy Schools Sponsored by the Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music An encounter through performances and workshops for graduating students of eurythmy schools around the world July 2 9, 2005, Goetheanum Conference for Members of the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science Sponsored by the General Anthroposophical Section 16 July 23 28, 2005, Goetheanum Summer Conference: The Art of Freedom Sponsored by the General Anthroposophical Section With numerous performances, panel discussions and further education courses, the Summer Conference will follow Schiller s tracks to bring art back to life. Childcare provided July 30 August 5, 2005, Goetheanum International Youth Art Festival Sponsor: Youth Section Workshops, performances, discussions on art August 1, 2005, Goetheanum Art and Conversation at the Goetheanum Regional Goetheanum Day August 5 7, 2005, Goetheanum Conference of the Anthroposophical Society in Spain August 11 14, 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) Being Awake Sponsored by the Anthr. Society in the United States Awakening to destiny and the human beings around us September 22 October 2, 2005, Goetheanum Internal Sectional Conference for Psychotherapy Professionals Sponsored by the Medical Section September 25 28, 2005, Goetheanum Conference of the Anthroposophical Medical Movement Sponsored by the Medical Section November 4 6, 2005, Goetheanum Meeting of First Class Readers of the School of Spiritual Science Sponsored by the General Anthroposophical Section November 8 11, 2005, Goetheanum Meeting of General Secretaries Sponsored by the General Anthroposophical Section November 11 13, 2005, Goetheanum Meeting of Group and Branch Leaders Sponsored by the General Anthroposophical Section December 25 31, 2005, Goetheanum Christmas Conference Sponsored by the General Anthroposophical Section January 2 5, 2006, Goetheanum The Human and Cosmic Nature of Evil Sponsored by the General Anthroposophical Section April 1 2, 2006 General Meeting of the Anthr. Society in France April 18 22, 2006, Goetheanum Eurythmy Conference Becoming Human in an Alien World Sponsors: Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music; Section for Social Sciences; Pedagogical Section

17 Treasurer s Report Annual Report Treasurer From Renovation to Research (or from Bau to Bühne ): The Year in Numbers The responsibilities of the Treasurer encompass the broad spectrum of financial activities of the Goetheanum and the General Anthroposophical Society. Essentially there are three spheres of activity that belong to these responsibilities. One can think of them as concentric circles which overlap and interweave. The first circle relates to core tasks related to the development and management of the three components of the Goetheanum budget (operations, projects and capital investments). This includes internal policies and regulations, reporting and controls, cash management etc. This first circle has to do with areas of responsible fiscal management for the Goetheanum with its budget of an average of 25 million CHF, 300 accounts (line items) and about 40 different financial centers such as Sections and departments. The second circle has to do with diverse relationships to the anthroposophical movement and Societies around the world. There are about 35 countries with whom we have financial relationships regarding members contributions and donations, and it is necessary to develop and maintain active contacts to the banks, foundations, financial organizations, and businesses related to anthroposophy. Without these human connections the organizational ties would slowly wither. The third circle of activity is related to developing external networks, contacts and partnerships with individuals and organizations worldwide. This is either in the green belt of the movement or beyond. There are growing activities and networks of the cultural creatives ; people who are striving to incorporate spirituality in daily life, in businesses and professional life, in whom one can often sense a powerful Michaelic element. They include, for example, the World Spirit Forum, Spirit in Business, the Social Venture Network, and many others where it is necessary that new forms of collaboration can arise with the Anthroposophical Society. months to review and analyze the business operations of 11 areas and each of the Sections of the School of Spiritual Science. Software AG Foundation took the leading role in the review, led by Heinrich Will. Over 25 co-workers of the Goetheanum were intensively involved in this process, preparing and reviewing documents, procedures, and strategies with experts drawn from the foundation community. This initially caused some anxiety in the Goetheanum, as the business culture has historically been relatively isolated. However, with assurances that the focus of the review was on the business elements and organization of the Goetheanum, and after initial individual and group meetings, this work commenced with considerable intensity. In summary the review pointed to four major areas needing improvement: The relationship of the many parts to the whole. How do they work together to increase the visibility and effectiveness of the totality in regard to cohesion of purpose, image and message? What is necessary, what not? The relationship of esoteric and exoteric activities. Are these aspects complementary or competitive? How evident is the value and necessity of the Society (and the School) to those not immediately connected to the activities arising from these? The relationship (and tension) of tradition and inheritance to a practical and active realization of contemporary needs and questions. The process of decision making and the role of representation of core activities as part of leadership and coordination responsibilities and tasks need greater clarity. Clearly these broad observations included specific recommendations such as the need for enhanced internal transparence, a clearer profile for the Goetheanum, stronger orientation towards members, changes in the stage, restaurant, and so on. Most of the recommendations are either in the process of implementation or completed. Those weighted differently by the Executive Committee will be implemented in modified form. The process was challenging, fruitful and confirming. Review of 2004 Although it would be optimal to distribute focus and time equally to these three general areas, it is the first two, of necessity in 2004, which required over 90% of focus and personnel resources. A significant effort in 2004 was the business review conducted by a group of anthroposophical foundations. A committee of these foundations, in close collaboration with the Executive Committee of the Goetheanum, worked intensively for about 9 Balance Sheet: The balance on concluded with CHF, a very slight reduction of CHF from the previous year. The changes were primarily due to fewer Accounts receivable at the end of the year, slightly less liquidity. On the other hand, Investments were higher with Credits (Gifts) with Right of Recall and Investments/Equities. On the liabilities side, we reduced or converted loans by over a million, booking ca. 1,6 additional Gifts with Right of Recall (some of which had been simple loans). Although Gifts with Right of Recall are technically booked as loans (liabilities) the recall rate on these gifts is historically very low, and therefore we view this positively. Expenses: We began the year with a budgeted shortfall of CHF after anticipating non-recurring extraordinary income of approximately CHF from the sale of property. This provided some uncertainty as there were two major 17

18 Treasurer s Report Balance Sheet All amounts in thousands CHF Dec Dec Assets Liabilities Assets Liabilities Cash and Cash equivalents 1'455 1'983 Notes receivable 1'721 3'018 Liquid Assets 3'176 5'001 Accounts and Notes Payable 1'976 1'938 Short Term Obligations 1'976 1'938 Marketable Securities and Loans Outstanding 4'795 3'254 Investments/Equities 1'978 1'710 Investments 6'773 4'964 Furniture, Vehicles and Goods Residential Real Estate 6'344 5'811 Goetheanum Building 4'408 5'303 Property, Plant and Equipment 11'107 11'420 Loans and Mortages 7'063 8'278 Pension Obligations Contingent Donations 8'300 6'725 Long Term Obligations 15'902 15'599 Funds and Reserves 2'749 3'423 Reserves Deficit Surplus Total 21'056 21'056 21'385 21'385 Table 1 simultaneous financial commitments to the Faust production and the completion of renovations of the Rudolf Steiner Halde. To meet the anticipated budget shortfall, we sent an appeal at Easter to members in Germany and Switzerland, and received CHF in donations from this effort. Total costs for the Faust production over were 12 mio CHF with 16 performances and approximately 11,000 guests, of which about half were new to the Goetheanum. Through donations, ticket sales, internal operations support from the Goetheanum (a total of 4,7 mio CHF over the 3 years) and public support, we were able to meet production costs with a final deficit of CHF. This project deficit is carried over to 2005 as a liability and will be covered through an expected legacy. The largest changes in expenses were performance costs Expenses All amounts in thousands CHF Co-workers 13'390 13'020 Events and Advertising 4'696 3'106 Equipment and Supplies 4'574 4'736 Residential Real Estate 1'256 1'231 Interest, Other Expenses 1' Depreciation, Adjustments/Losses Fund Designations 1' Capital Investments and Depreciation 2' Surplus Total Income All amounts in thousands CHF Membership Fees 4'367 4'571 Institution Contributions 2'233 1'904 Courses and Events 4'621 2'496 Publications and Tours Div. Services 1' Magazine The Goetheanum 1'526 1'555 Residential Real Estate 2'050 1'553 Designated Gifts 3'849 4'046 Building Gifts incl. Auditorium 2'621 1'169 Gifts 3'192 1'776 Bequests 1'555 1'641 Interest, Fund Dissolution, others 2'301 2'541 Deficit Total Income Table 2 related to Faust (an expense increase of ca 1,6 mio CHF) and designation of funds and reserves of ca. 1,4 mio CHF. We also undertook several larger once-only write-off costs (dissolution of designated funds) for Halde, the Large Hall and amortization Total Budget 2004 All amounts in thousands CHF NET DIFFERENCE Budget 2004 Actual 2004 Budget - Actual A. Operating Costs Expense Income Net Expense Income Net Expense Income Net Sections Conferences and Stage Administration '078 Buildings and Grounds Magazine Real Estate Membership Fees Institutional Contributions Gifts '861 1'805 Bequests Interest, other ' Total Operating Costs '209-3' B. Project Costs Section Projects Other Projects Faust Project '131 4' Total Project Costs C. Capital Investments Halde Total Investments ' Summary Operating Costs '209-3' Project Costs Capital Investments ' Budget 2004 Total '507-4' Table 3

19 Treasurer s Report Summary All amounts in thousands CHF Budget 2004 Actual 2004 Expense Income Expense Income Membership Fees 4'600 4'367 Institution Contributions 1'800 1'906 Gifts and Bequests 3' '156 Sections 5'608 3'068 5'392 3'726 Public Conferences and Stage 2'787 1'091 2'961 1'031 Technical Stage 1' ' Administration and Pensions 3' ' Magazine, Residential Real Estate 2'595 3'030 2'877 3'085 Goetheanum 3' ' Halde 1'665 1'665 2'675 2'641 Projects/Gifts (Faust) 4'475 4'475 4'763 4'760 Other Expenses/Costs '737 1'456 Deficit 2004 Budget 136 Surplus Total 25'015 25'015 29'526 29'526 Table 4 of several smaller funds. The Halde renovation was completed on time (March) and on budget ( mio CHF) with 1,65 budgeted for 2004 and 1,44 expensed for these costs. We concluded the fiscal year with actual expenses of CHF. Income: Membership income proved once again to be difficult. Due to fluctuations in the currency exchange rate we experienced losses from the American Society in addition to declining membership generally in some countries. While a few countries are making meaningful efforts to increase their contributions, for which we are most grateful (England and Holland in particular), this is an ongoing concern and will require combined and sustained remediation. Actual membership income was CHF less than Income from legacies came in slightly over target, although we had budgeted this conservatively at 20% below the 2003 levels. On a positive note undesignated institutional gifts were ( CHF higher than 2003 and over CHF than budgeted), compensating for the loss in members contributions. Undesignated gifts and grants, at CHF were substantially more than budgeted. This was primarily due to several extraordinary once-only donations related to legacies which were routed through foundations and therefore appear as undesignated gifts. The combined 2004 Easter and Christmas Appeals yielded just over CHF from a number of countries for which the Goetheanum is indeed most grateful. Additionally both the Dutch and English Societies made extraordinary gifts. The Dutch Society donated Euro and raised an additional Euro from members, and the English Society donated ( CHF) for renovations to the Carpentry building roof, which will take place summer These leadership gifts are exemplary and will be applied to specific projects. Summary: The total actual income was CHF or 4,67 mio CHF over the 2004 budgeted amount (24,879 mio CHF) and 5,26 mio CHF above the total income for The General Anthroposophical Society concluded the 2004 fiscal year with a very small, but satisfying, surplus, of CHF! Budget 2005: The total expense budget of CHF was passed by the Executive Council in late December with a projected shortfall of CHF. This budget also included anticipated extraordinary income, CHF of which will be realised through the further sale of property. The Executive Council made this decision in recognition of the significant reduction of CHF already taken in the operating budget for It should be noted that the deficit is calculated on the basis of the operating budget and not for projects and capital investments. For 2005 there are net reductions (final costs after initial costs minus designated income) of CHF in the School of Spiritual Science, due to restructuring of the budget (General Section) and leadership vacancies (Math/Sculptural Arts) and approximately a net CHF increase in Society expenses (due to corresponding budget restructuring). Building Administration reflects a net expense increase of ca CHF from 2004 due to transition in personnel, supply costs (energy) etc. The Stage has retained a net expense budget roughly equal to However, this includes actual reductions of ca CHF undertaken in late 2004 for the 2005 budget. During 2003 approx CHF of normal stage operating costs were incorporated into the Faust Actual 2004 project budget. For 2005, upon conclusion of Faust, these project costs were re-integrated into the operation budget of the stage. Therefore the real and difficult measures taken in savings are not, in fact, reflected in the 2005 net Stage budget. The capital investment budget includes approximately CHF for the beginning of renovations to the Glass House. This major renovation will commence late in 2005 and is budgeted at 2,8 mio CHF. It is expected that the renovations will take one year and conclude late 2006 or early This represents a major fiscal priority for the Goetheanum, and funds will be gathered during 2005 to support this project. The total budget for Expenses Income General Operating Support General Anthropos. Section and B 1' Mathematics, Astronomy Medicine 1'437 1' Natural Science Agriculture Pedagogic Art Youth Performing Arts Literary Arts and Humanities Social Science Total '301 3'776 2'525 Comparison: Actual '174 3'271 2'903 Actual '093 4'442 2'651 Actual '037 3'367 2'670 Budget '173 3'070 3'103 Table 5 19

20 Treasurer s Report Section Budget 2005 All amounts in thousands CHF Expenses Income Net General Anthropos. Section Mathematics, Astronomy Medicine Natural Science Agriculture Pedagogic Art Youth Performing Arts Literary Arts and Humanities Social Science Sections maintenance is enormous. While our income has managed to meet expenses for 2004, there are active considerations presently underway to collaborate more effectively with country societies and institutions working out of and connected to Anthroposophy in order to optimize and enhance revenue. This belongs to a longer term perspective for the financial stability of the Society, in addition to an increased awareness of the necessity to expand the membership. It is crucial that the Society retains its willingness to evaluate itself, its forms and approaches to issues and concerns, not only regarding existing members, but for the many individuals who have a living connection and commitment to Anthroposophy but not to the Society. In the light of the 1923/24 Christmas Conference we are again and again challenged to find new and vital ways of connecting esoteric substance and exoteric necessities. Cornelius Pietzner Treasurer Table is approximately 9 mio CHF less than actual expenses for This is due to significantly lower capital costs (no Halde), lower cultural costs (no Faust and most of the future performances to be financed as projects, and therefore through external donations), reductions in operating expenses, and no budgetary expectations for larger loans that were transferred into Gifts with Right of Recall and the establishment of several funds that are reflected in the operation budget. Total Budget 2005 All amounts in thousands CHF A. Operating Costs Aufwand Ertrag Netto Sections 4'910 2' Conferences and Stage 3' Administration 3' Buildings and Grounds 3' Magzine 1'390 1' Real Estate 1'170 1' Membership Fees 4' Institutional Contributions 1' Gifts 1' Bequests 1' Interest, other Total Operating Costs 18'029 17' B. Project Costs Section Projects Other Projects Faust Project Total Project Costs C. Capital Investments Halde 1'350 1'350 - Total Investments 1'350 1'350 - Summary Operating Costs 18'029 17' Project Costs Capital Investments 1'350 1'350 - Budget 2004 Total 20'324 20' Budget Deficit Table 7 Prospects and Outlook: We are deeply grateful for the steady support and generosity that makes the work of the Goetheanum, the worldwide Society and the School of Spiritual Science possible. The sheer quantity and diversity of activities ranging from major cultural performances, to spiritual research and scientific projects, building renovations and 20

21 Contact Addresses Addresses and Contacts (as of February, 2005) School of Spiritual Science Directorship: Collegium of the School of Spiritual Science Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Virginia Sease Heinz Zimmermann Paul Mackay Bodo v. Plato Sergei Prokofieff Cornelius Pietzner General Anthroposophical Section Oliver Conradt (starting summer 2005) Section for Mathematics and Astronomy Michaela Glöckler Medical Section Johannes Kühl Science Section Nikolai Fuchs Agriculture Section Christof Wiechert Pedagogical Section Paul Mackay Section for Social Sciences Art Section (interim) Elizabeth Wirsching Section for the Spiritual Striving of Youth Werner Barfod Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music Martina Maria Sam Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities General Anthroposophical Section Leaders: Virginia Sease, Heinz Zimmermann, Paul Mackay, Bodo v. Plato, Sergei Prokofieff, Cornelius Pietzner Office Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Areas of Work Study of Anthroposophy and Meditation, Study of Man: Dr. Heinz Zimmermann The Hierarchies and Christology: Dr. Virginia Sease, Sergei Prokofieff Reincarnation and Karma: Paul Mackay Social formation and social competence: Cornelius Pietzner Research in the Spirit of the Age and Evolutionary Questions: Bodo v. Plato Studies at the Goetheanum Basic Studies in Anthroposophy (in German) Leader: Dr. Heinz Zimmermann Information: Wiltrud Schmidt Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Anthroposophical Studies in English Leader: Dr. Virginia Sease Information: Ursula Seiler Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Further Education Courses Information: Robin Schmidt Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Individual Studies Information: Kontaktstelle Freies Studium Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Section for Mathematics and Astronomy Leader: Oliver Conradt, Ph.D. Secretary: Sabine Marzolf Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Medical Section Leader: Michaela Glöckler, M.D. Secretary: Rebekka Fuchs, Felicitas Graf, Eva Handke, Grit Müller, Giovanna Ruggia Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Scientific Co-workers: Peter Heusser, M.D. Peter Selg, M.D. Questions regarding remedies: Manfred Kohlhase, Ph.D. Curative education and social therapy: Rüdiger Grimm, Ph.D. Coordination Art Therapy: Dagmar Brauer, Forum Curative Eurythmy: Angelika Jaschke, Legal Issues (IVAA): Giancarlo Buccheri, M.D. Coordination of Training: Guus van der Bie, M.D. Conference of Physicians Associations: Peter Zimmermann, M.D. Care Forum: Rolf Heine, Physiotherapy: Unda Niedermann, Ad Dekkers, Student Work: Theresa Knittel, International Postgraduate Medical Training: Curative Eurythmy Training: Brigitte von Roeder Professional Further Training Therapeutic Speech: Ursula Ostermai, Working Groups Basic Questions in Medicine Information: Andreas Bindler,, M.D., Paul Janach, M.D. Section Circle for Physicians and Pharmacists with Weleda Information: Manfred Kohlhase, Ph.D. Neurophysiology Colloquium Information: Peter Heusser, M.D. Research on Salutogenesis Information: Michaela Glöckler, M.D. Working Group on Ethics of Dynig, Dignity of Life Initiative Circle of Physiotherapists Information: Christa Maier Working Weeks for the Study of Man through Sculpture, Music and Speech Information: Armin Husemann, M.D. Anthroposophisches Ärzte-Seminar Haberschlaiheide 1, DE Filderstadt Initiative for Prevention of Drug Addiction Information: Felicitas Vogt Leonhardsgraben 63, CH-4051 Basel International Circle of School Doctors Information: Markus Wegner, M.D. Dreikönigstrasse 19, DE Freiburg Studies in Anthroposophical Medicine Information: Felix Baur, M.D. Tel. +41 (0) Rudolf Steiner Seminar for Curative Education Leader: Hans Egli Ruchtiweg 7, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Natural Science Section Leader: Johannes Kühl Secretary: Barbara Schmocker Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Research Institute: Tel./Fax see Natural Science Section Physics: Johannes Kühl, Georg Maier, Ph.D., Florian Theilmann, Ph.D. Genetic engineering: Johannes Wirz, Ph.D. Landscape Ecology: Jochen Bockemühl, Ph.D., Daniel Kuster Medicinal Plant Studies: Torsten Arncken, Jochen Bockemühl, Ph.D. Botany: Ruth Richter Chemistry: Martin Rozumek Sensitive Crystallization Laboratory: Haijo Knijpenga, Beatrix Waldburger, Uwe Geier, Ph.D. Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Agriculture Section Leader: Nikolai Fuchs Secretary: Therese Jung, Karin Lundsgaard Schaller Co-workers: Manfred Klett, Ph.D., Stefan Mahlich, Florian Leiber, Ph.D. Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Pedagogical Section Leader: Christof Wiechert Secretary: Rita Marbach, Dorothee Prange Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0)

22 Contact Addresses College for Anthroposophical Education (HFAP) Ruchtiweg 5, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. / Fax +41 (0) Coordination Office of the Rudolf Steiner Schools in Switzerland and Advisory Circle of the Rudolf Steiner Schools in Switzerland Robert Thomas Carmenstrasse 49, CH-8032 Zürich Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) rthomas@access.ch International Association of Waldorf Kindergardens Heubergstr. 18, DE Stuttgart Tel. +49 (0) Fax +49 (0) Hague Circle Information: Christof Wiechert European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education Responsible: Christopher Clouder c/o Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JA, Great Britain Tel Fax mail@waldorf.compulink.co.uk ipf - initiative für praxisforschung Responsible: Urs Hauenstein, Thomas Stöckli Allmendstrasse 75, CH-4500 Solothurn info@ipf-ipr.net, Art Section Leader (interim): Paul Mackay Co-workers: Luigi Fiumara, Andrea Leubin, Thorwald Thiersch Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) sektion.bildende.kuenste@goetheanum.ch Architecture: Luigi Fiumara Graphics: Peter Wolf, Ph.D./M.F.A. Jewelry: Alfred Frischknecht Painting: Bettina Müller Sculpture: Astrid Oelssner Glass Engraving: Marianne Altmaier Sale of plaster casts of works by Rudolf Steiner and Edith Maryon Information: Office of the Section Glass Engraving Studio, Marianne Altmaier Nachtigallenweg 16, DE Lörrach Tel Training Centers and Art Schools in the Vicinity of the Goetheanum Painting School at the Goetheanum Caroline Chanter, Elisabeth Wagner-Koch Brosiweg 41, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. +41 (0) c.chanter@malschule-goetheanum.ch Raoul Ratnowsky Sculpture School at the Goetheanum. Training Center for Craft Teachers, Sculptors and Therapists Mia Rist, Ueli Hintermann Ruchtiweg 13, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. +41 (0) und Training Center and Workshop for Sculpture Therapy 22 Leader: Elke Dominik Goetheanum, Tel. +41 (0) Arteum School of Painting Information: Peter Stebbing Tramweg 2, CH-4144 Arlesheim Tel. +41 (0) Assenza School of Painting Information: Charles Blockey Aliothstrasse 1, CH-4142 Münchenstein Tel. +41 (0) Dornach Independent School of Painting following the method of Beppe Assenza Goetheanumstrasse 16, CH-4143 Dornach Information: Heidi Strahm Tel. +41 (0) Section for the Spiritual Striving of Youth (Youth Section) Leader: Elizabeth Wirsching Secretary: Reinoud R. Meijer Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) jugendsektion@goetheanum.ch Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech, Drama and Music Leader: Werner Barfod Secretary: Doris Bianchi Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) sektion.red.mus.kuenste@goetheanum.ch Goetheanum Stage Contact addresses under the heading Goetheanum, Departments Training, Further Education Dora Gutbrod School of Artistic Speech Training in Speech Formation and Therapy, Specialist Seminars Leaders: Ursula Ostermai, Ruth Andrea Dornacherstrasse 192, CH-4053 Basel Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) doragutbrod@bluewin.ch Baselland Academy of Eurythmy Information: Ingrid Everwijn Postfach 24, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) info@eurythmie.ch Eurythmeum Zuccoli Responsible: Ursula Heusser Hügelweg 83, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) info@eurythmie-zuccoli.ch Further Training in Eurythmy Leader: Roswitha Schumm Juraweg 10, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. / Fax +41 (0) Puppet Theater Felicia Information: Monika Lüthi Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) puppenspiel@goetheanum.ch Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities Leader: Martina Maria Sam Secretary: Hildegard Backhaus Co-worker: Christiane Haid Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) sektion.schoene.wissenschaften@ goetheanum.ch Working Groups Argentina, Toms Klein Tel. / Fax klein@archai.net Australia, John Allison Tel john.allison@mail.com Germany, Berlin Art History Working Circle Contact: Katja Portner-Krieg Tel. +49 (0) jportner@nexgo.de Poetry Therapy Contact: Ingeborg Woitsch Tel. +49 (0) ingeborg.woitsch@t-online.de Northern Germany Contact: Rolf Speckner Tel. +49 (0) Great Britain Simon Blaxland-de Lange Tel. / Fax Japan Prof. Michiko Koyasu Tel. / Fax mkoyasu@tkh.att.ne.jp New Zealand Deborah Tait debtait@actix.gen.nz USA Marguerite Miller Tel dougmiller@voyager.net Working Group for Philosophy and Psychology Responsible: Renatus Ziegler Tel. +41 (0) renatus.ziegler@hiscia.ch Working Group for Fairy Tale Research Almut Bockemühl Tel. / Fax +41 (0) Working Group Rudolf Steiner s Language of Thought and Style Information: Martina Maria Sam Section for Social Sciences Leader: Paul Mackay Coordination: Ulrich Rösch Secretary: Hannah Koskinen Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) sektion.sozialwissenschaften@goetheanum.ch

23 Contact Addresses Goetheanum Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Executive Board of the Goetheanum Paul Mackay, Cornelius Pietzner, Bodo v. Plato, Elizabeth Wirsching Administration of the Goetheanum Building Leader: Kurt Remund Administration: Monika Paul Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Construction Office Leader: Martin Zweifel Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Maintenance Department Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Guided Tours Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) daily at 2:00 PM or by arrangement Garden Department Advisory Service for Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Leader: Benno Otter Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Bookshop at the Goetheanum Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Hours Monday through Friday 9.30 a.m p.m., 2: p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m p.m. Documentation at the Goetheanum Leader: Uwe Werner Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) dokumentation@goetheanum.ch Archives: Karin Rohrer, Peter Braithwaite By appointment only Library: Wilhelm Baumeier Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) archiv@goetheanum.ch Hours Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. Art Collection Tel./Fax +41 (0) archiv@goetheanum.ch By appointment only Painting and Graphics: Dino Wendtland Furniture Design: Walter Mattheus Plaster Casts and Sculptures: Valentin Niemann Sale of Plaster Casts: see Art Section Finance Department Treasurer: Cornelius Pietzner Secretary: Claudia Seifert Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) finanzwesen@goetheanum.ch Bookkeeping: Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) buchhaltung@goetheanum.ch Controlling: Rudolf Hafner Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) rudolf.hafner@goetheanum.ch Goetheanum Stage Artistic Direction Eurythmy: Carina Schmid Theatre: Sarah Kane sarah.kane@goetheanum.ch Torsten Blanke torsten blanke@goetheanum.ch Business Management: Thomas Didden Secretary: Angela Wirth Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) buehne@goetheanum.ch Technical Management: Nils Frischknecht Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) buehne.technik@goetheanum.ch Room Assignments at Events: Henner Kurth Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) raumplanung@goetheanum.ch Speech and Drama School at the Goetheanum Leader: Catherine Ann Schmid Secretary: Uwe Henken Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) schauspielschule@goetheanum.ch The Goetheanum Stage publishes a calendar of events; a list of courses, lectures and exhibitions at the Goetheanum appears at the same time. The administration of the Goetheanum Stage sends out these materials free of charge upon request. Personnel Leader: Traute Zimmermann Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) personal@goetheanum.ch Office of Student Affairs Caroline Döhn Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) personal@goetheanum.ch Hours Monday, Thursday p.m. Tuesday p.m. For administrative help and information on visas and residency permits, as well as information on courses of study at the Goetheanum, please inquire at the appropriate school or department of study. Communication and Public Relations Wolfgang Held Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) kommunikation@goetheanum.ch Speisehaus am Goetheanum Vegetarian restaurant Dorneckstrasse 2, CH-4143 Dornach Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) info@speisehaus.ch Conference and Box Office Roland Tüscher Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) tagungsbuero@goetheanum.ch Advance Booking (by phone and ): Monday through Friday a.m p.m., p.m. Saturday a.m p.m. Box Office Hours: Monday through Saturday a.m p.m. Evenings: 45 minutes before performances. Hours change during conferences; opening times prior to conferences are provided in the conference documents. Publishing House at the Goetheanum Leader: Joseph Morel Hügelweg 59, Postfach 131 CH-4143 Dornach 1 Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) verlag@goetheanum.ch Weekly Newsletter Das Goetheanum The General Anthroposophical Society publishes the weekly newsletter Das Goetheanum, Wochenschrift für Anthroposophie, founded by Rudolf Steiner. Members of the Society also receive as an insertion Was in der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft vorgeht. Nachrichten für deren Mitglieder. Ten times a year, Anthroposophy Worldwide is also published in German and English. At irregular intervals Anthroposophy Worldwide is supplemented by News from the Goetheanum. Publications of the Anthroposophical Society in different countries are the responsibility of the appropriate 23

24 Contact Addresses national Society. Editors: Sebastian Jüngel, Axel Mannigel, Dietrich Rapp, Ursula Remund Fink, Michaela Spaar. Business Management: Christian Peter Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) Subscription: Advertisements: Editorial Staff: Published by the General Anthroposophical Society Annual subscriptions, Switzerland: CHF 145 (with Swiss newsletter); other countries: CHF 115 (with newsletter for members of the General Anthroposophical Society). Student subscription (full-time students with valid student ID) costs 50% of annual subscription. Trial subscription includes four to six issues (as a rule) and can be requested at any time. Annual subscriptions are renewed for a second year if not cancelled in writing within six weeks of end of subscription period. A trial subscription automatically turns into an annual subscription unless cancelled before the end of its period. Room Reservations at the Goetheanum Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) zimmervermittlung@goetheanum.ch Annemarie Ehrsam Private rooms and hotel rooms in Dornach and vicinity Tuesday through Friday AM and 3:00 5:00 PM; Prior to conferences, as indicated in conference materials. Goetheanum Guesthouses Gästehaus Friedwart Lärchenweg 11, CH-4143 Dornach Begegnungs-Centrum Sonnhaldeweg 1, CH-4143 Dornach Contact: Waltraud Frischknecht Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) friedwart@goetheanum.ch Branch at the Goetheanum Responsible: Wolfgang Held Information: Tel. +41 (0) The Anthroposophical Society in the World Board of Trustees (Vorstand) at the Goetheanum: Virginia Sease Secretary: Doris Bianchi Heinz Zimmermann Secretary: Wiltrud Schmidt Paul Mackay Secretary: Monika Clément Bodo v. Plato Secretary: Ursula Seiler Sergei Prokofieff Secretary: Ute Fischer Cornelius Pietzner Secretary: Claudia Seifert Office of the Board of Trustees Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) sekretariat@goetheanum.ch Hours: Monday through Friday 9.00 a.m p.m., p.m. Society and Membership Office Hans Hasler Tel. +41 (0) Fax +41 (0) sekretariat@goetheanum.ch Hours: Monday through Friday 9.00 a.m p.m., p.m. Argentina Sociedad Antroposófica en la Argentina 2224 Crisólogo Larralde AR-C1429BTP Buenos Aires Tel Fax (T.E.Klein) rosa.korte@cosmedika.com.ar National Representative Rosa Körte Australia Anthroposophical Society in Australia Rudolf Steiner House 307 Sussex Street, AU-Sydney NSW 2000 Tel , Fax anthroposophy@westnet.com.au National Representative Norma Blackwood Austria Allgemeine Anthroposophische Gesellschaft Landesgesellschaft Österreich Tilgnerstrasse 3 AT-1040 Wien Tel./Fax erdmenger.dgb@utanet.at General Secretary Dipl.ing. Helmut Goldmann Belgium Antroposofische Vereniging in België Société Anthroposophique en Belgique F. Lousbergskaai 44 BE-9000 Gent Tel Fax antrop-ver.be@pi.be General Secretary Jan Borghs Brazil Sociedade Antroposófica no Brasil Rua da Fraternidade, 156/168 BR São Paulo - SP Tel Fax sab@sab.org.br General Secretary Ingrid Böhringer Bulgaria Anthroposophical Society in Bulgaria Ul. Tsar Simeon 55 BG-1000 Sofia Tel./Fax National Representative Trajtscho Frangov, MD Canada Anthroposophical Society in Canada 550 Eglinton Avenue West CA-Toronto, Ont. M5N 3A8 Postal address P.O.Box CA-Toronto, Ont. M5N 3A8 Tel Fax headoffice@colosseum.com General Secretary Philip Thatcher philipthatcher@shaw.ca Tel Chile Rama San Santiago Manuel Covarrubias 3782, Casilla de Nunoa CL-Santiago de Chile Secretary Monica Waldmann Agrupación Libre Antroposófica Jose Tomas Rider 1654 CL-Providencia, Santiago de Chile Branch leader Rafael González Rama Christophorus Office Natalia Gómez, Clemenceau 1520 CL-Vitacura, Santiago de Chile Colombia Rama Santiago Apóstol, Cali Branch leaders Silvia and Enrique de Castro URESA Bloque 54, apto. 203, CO-Cali, Valle Tel and Rama Micael, Medellin Branch leader Teresita Roldán de Hernandez Calle 13 # 43D14, CO-Medellin Tel armm3@yahoo.com.ar Croatia Antropozofsko Drustvo Marija Sofija Zagreb Baruna Trenka 4 HR Zagreb Tel./Fax Branch leader Darko Znaor MD marijasofija@antropozofija.hr Czech Republic Anthroposofická spolecnost Petrzilkova CZ Praha 5 - Stodulky Postal address P.O. Box 285, Kaprova 12 CZ Praha 1 Tel./Fax antr.spol@volny.cz National Representative Dr. Jan Bouzek Denmark Antroposofisk Selskab Danmark Ibaekvej 202 DK-7100 Vejle Tel , Fax asd@mail.tele.dk General Secretary Troels Ussing Ecuador Rama Micael, Quito Branch leader Patricio Jaramillo Tobar Urb. La Luz, Fr. Guarderas 354, y Ab. Montalvo

25 Contact Addresses P.O. Box EC-Quito Tel Fax patjaram@uio.satnet.net Egypt Branch Sekem Branchleader Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish 1 Belbis Desert Road, P.O.Box 2834, Alf Maskan EG El Horrya Heliopolis Cairo Tel , Fax info@sekem.com Estonia Eesti Antroposoofiline Selts Paiste 10-2 EE Tallinn National Representative Sulev Ojap sulev.ojap@neti.ee Finland Suomen Antroposofinen Liitto Uudenmaankatu 25A 4 FI Helsinki 12 Tel , Fax toimisto@antropos.fi General Secretary Leena Westergrén Antroposofiska Sällskapet i Finland Representative Marina Reuter Rönnvägen 41, FI Helsinki 27 Tel France Société Antroposophique en France 2 et 4, rue de la Grande Chaumière FR Paris Tel (Office) Tel (Information) Fax socanthroposophique@wanadoo.fr General Secretary Gudrun Cron Georgia Anthroposophical Society in Georgia Seinab Bozvadse Str. 10 P.O. Box 91 GE-0108 Tbilissi Tel National Representative Dr. Nodar Belkania antrsg@myoffice.ge Germany Anthroposophische Gesellschaft in Deutschland Rudolf Steiner Haus, Zur Uhlandshöhe 10 DE Stuttgart Tel Fax AgiD.Deutschland@t-online.de General Secretary Nana Göbel Berlin Centre Bernadottestrasse 90/92 DE Berlin Tel Fax sekretariat@agberlin.de Representative Martin Kollewijn East Centre Angelikastrasse 4 DE Dresden Tel Fax Representative Ingrid Hüther Frankfurt Centre Hügelstrasse 67 DE Frankfurt Tel Fax azffm@web.de Representative: Barbara Messmer Hanover Centre Brehmstrasse 10 DE Hannover Tel Fax stracke@hannover.sgh_net.de Representative Thomas Wiehl Munich Centre Leopoldstrasse 46/a DE München Tel Fax info@anthroposophie-muenchen.de Representative Florian Roder North Centre Mittelweg DE Hamburg Tel Fax Anthroposophie-az.nord@t-online.de Representative: Matthias Bölts North Rhine-Westphalia Centre Martin-Luther-Strasse 8 DE Wuppertal Tel Fax Anthroposophie.NRW@t-online.de Representative Michael Schmock Nuremberg Centre Rieterstrasse 20 DE Nürnberg Tel Fax info@anthroposophie-nuernberg.de Representative Christa Pfannmüller Upper Rhine Centre Starkenstrasse 36 DE Freiburg Tel Fax agid-azob@t-online.de Stuttgart Centre Rudolf Steiner Haus, Zur Uhlandshöhe 10 DE Stuttgart Tel Fax ags@anthroposophie-de.com Representative Johannes Kehrer Anthroposophische Gesellschaft - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Impuls Ost Contact Werner Kleine, Andréstrasse 5 DE Chemnitz Tel Werner.Kleine@obafg.smwa.sachsen.de Great Britain Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain Rudolf Steiner House 35 Park Road GB-London NW1 6XT Tel Fax rsh-office@anth.org.uk General Secretary Nick Thomas Hawai i Anthroposophical Society in Hawaii 2514 Alaula Way US-Honolulu, HI Tel VanJames@verizon.net National Representative Evan E. van James Hungary Magyar Antropozófiai Társaság Bimbó út 3.IV.2 HU-1022 Budapest Tel./Fax National Representative Dr. Peter Szilágyi matszilagyi@freestart.hu Iceland Antroposofiska Felagid a Islandi P.O.Box 953 IS-121 Reykjavik Representative Gudfinnur Ellert Jakobsson Tel India Contact Aban Bana 5 Proctor Road, Grant Road IN-Mumbai Tel./Fax abanbana123@rediffmail.com Ireland Anthroposophical Society in Ireland P.O.Box 172 GB-Belfast Delivery BT18 9WT, Northern Ireland Tel./Fax linde1@onetel.net.uk National Representative Michiel Brave Israel Elias Branch, Jerusalem Branch leader Eva Levy Hanassi St. 6 IL Jerusalem Tel Michael Branch, Harduf Office Sandra Gershony Kibbutz Harduf IL D.N. Hamovil Tel Fax gershony@harduf.org.il Hillel Branch, Kiriat Tivon Contact Stefanie Allon-Grob Schoschanim 32 IL Kiriat Tivon Tel giallon@bezeqint.net Sophia Branch, Petach-Tikva Branch Leader Viera Cohen P.O.Box 2143 IL Petach-Tikva vierac@netvision.net.il Italy Società Antroposofica in Italia Via Privata Vasto 4, IT Milano Tel./Fax General Secretary Dr. Stefano Pederiva 25

26 Contact Addresses Japan Anthroposophical Society in Japan Takadanobaba , Shinjuku-ku JP Tokyo Tel./Fax asj@cg5.so-net.ne.jp General Secretary Prof. Yuji Agematsu Latvia Latvijas Antroposofiska Biedriba Latvian Anthroposophical Society Contact Uldis Savelievs Keldisa Str LV-1021 Riga Tel Fax antroposofia@inbox.lv Lithuania Michael Branch Contact Jurate Lekstiene Ateities LT-5300 Panevezys Mexico Rama Juan de la Cruz Branch leader Dr. Octavio Reyes Tecla 46, Col. Los Reyes, Coyoacan MX-Mexico D.F Tel Fax Octavio_reyessalas@yahoo.de oresal@servidor.unam.mx Namibia Anthroposophical Group in Namibia Office M. Möller P.O.Box NA-9000 Windhoek Tel Fax Netherlands Antroposofische Vereniging in Nederland Boslaan 15 NL-3701 CH Zeist Tel Fax secretariaat@antrop-ver.nl General Secretary Ronald A. Dunselman New Zealand Anthroposophical Society in New Zealand General Secretary Hans van Florenstein Mulder 18 Grants Road, Papanui NZ-Christchurch Tel Fax hmulder@xtra.co.nz Norway Antroposofisk Selskap i Norge Prof. Dahlsgate 30 NO-0260 Oslo Tel./Fax asn@antroposofi.no General Secretary Frode Barkved Peru Sociedad Antroposófica en el Perú Av. G. Prescott 590, San Isidro PE-Lima 27 Tel bevielmetter@terra.com.pe National Representative Carmela Villafana 26 Philippines Anthroposophical Group in the Philippines 1086 del Monte Avenue PH-Quezon City 1105 Tel Tel/Fax Contact Jake Tan jaketan@edsamail.com.ph Poland Towarzystwo Antropozoficzne w Polsce ul. Arciszewskiego 4 PL Warszawa Tel./Fax sekretariat.tawp@wp.pl National Representative Ewa Wasniewska M.D. Portugal Sociedade Antroposófica em Portugal Quinta s. Joao dos Montes PT-2400 Alhandra Tel Fax antroposofia@mail.net4b.pt National Representative Leonor Malik Romania Societatea Antroposofica din România Str. Visilinor nr. 17, sector 2 RO Bucuresti Tel/Fax romantrop@yahoo.com National Representative Agenor Crisan Russia Anthroposophical Society in Russia Nastschokinskij Pereulok 6, kw. 3 RU Moskau Tel./Fax National Representative Wladimir G. Tichomirow Serbia Antroposofski Kulturni Centar Beograd Branch leader Vojislav Kecman Gandijeva 241 YU Beograd Tel vkecman@ptt.yu Slovakia Slovenská Antropozofická Spolocnost Hattalova 12A SK Bratislava Tel Fax National Representative Dr. Erich Sasinka sasinka@eea.sk South Africa Anthroposophical Society in Southern Africa P.O. Box ZA-Bryanston 2021 Tel or Fax linoia@mweb.co.za Spain Sociedad Antroposófica en España C/Guipuzcoa, 11-1-Izda ES Madrid Tel./Fax s.antroposofica.esp@ret .es Chairman Juan Mele Cartana Sweden Antroposofiska Sällskapet i Sverige Pl 1800 SE Järna Tel Fax ASiS@antroposofi.nu General Secretary Anders Kumlander Switzerland Anthroposophische Gesellschaft in der Schweiz Oberer Zielweg 60 CH-4143 Dornach Tel Fax anthrosuisse@bluewin.ch General Secretary Otfried Doerfler Thailand Anthroposophical Group in Bangkok Branch leader: Dr. Porn Panosot 27/789 Moo 3, Mooban Napalai Sukhumvit Rd. TH-Bang Na, BKK Tel / Fax panosot@loxinfo.co.th Ukraine Anthroposophical Branch in Kiew Branch leader Volodymyr Kochetkov-Sukach Ul. Tampere 2/17-16 UA Kiev Tel kiev_sophia@yahoo.com Uruguay Novalis Branch, Montevideo Branch leader Gisela Medina Amazonas 1529 UY Montevideo Tel USA Anthroposophical Society in America 1923 Geddes Avenue US-Ann Arbor, MI Tel Fax information@anthroposophy.org General Secretaries Joan Almon and MariJo Rogers

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