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The building was designed by Rudolf Steiner and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [1] It includes two performance halls (1500 seats), gallery and lecture spaces, a library, a bookstore, and administrative spaces for the Anthroposophical Society; neighboring buildings house the society's research and educational facilities. Conferences ...
Rudolf Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society on 28 December 1912, and he was expelled from the Theosophical Society on 7 March 1913. [2] In 1899, Steiner published an article in the Magazin für Literatur, titled "Goethe's Secret Revelation", on the esoteric nature of Goethe's fairy tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. [3]
The house where Rudolf Steiner was born, in present-day Croatia. Steiner's father, Johann(es) Steiner (1829–1910), left a position as a gamekeeper [29] in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie (1834 Horn – 1918, Horn), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.
He translated a number of Rudolf Steiner’s works and researched and lectured on Goethe's Theory of Colours. Although at school Michael had specialized in Physics and Chemistry, with a view to taking over the successful chemical plant his father owned and ran, he decided to study Violin and Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music.
Steiner had wanted to write a philosophy of freedom since at least 1880. [12] The appearance of The Philosophy of Freedom in 1894 [13] was preceded by his publications on Goethe, focusing on epistemology and the philosophy of science, particularly Goethe the Scientist (1883) [14] and The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception (1886). [15]
Rudolf Steiner wrote four plays that follow the initiation journeys of a group of fictional characters through a series of lives. These plays were intended to be modern mystery plays . Steiner outlined the plot of a fifth play to be set at the Castalian spring at Delphi , but due to the outbreak of First World War , this remained an unfulfilled ...
Rudolf Steiner presents Goethe's approach to science as phenomenological in the Kürschner edition of Goethe's writings. [16] Steiner elaborated on this in the books Goethean Science (1883) [17] and Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World-Conception (1886). [18] in which he emphasizes the need of the perceiving organ of intuition in ...
Anthroposophy is a spiritual [1]: i new religious movement [2] which was founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner [3] that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience.