‘A hundred years ago, naming the world’s most beautiful buildings was easy: the Parthenon. Sure. The Taj Mahal. Absolutely. Hagia Sophia. No argument. But now, in part because the whole notion was chewed up and spit out by those troublemaking Modernists, we’re just learning to think about architecture in terms of beauty again. It’s open season.
Certain themes are evident in our choices of the world’s most beautiful buildings. We love buildings surrounded by water; the interaction Between water and daylight is always magical. (Why do you think the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Has A at ITS by step?) And we are head over heels for Uses of flamboyant color and pattern. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, for example, is Positively psychedelic.
So are we consistent? Nope. But our choices May Seem Capricious however, we do not take lightly beauty. After all, the ongoing search for beauty is what travel is all about. It's certainly the best reason we know to leave the house. "
That Institute for Sound and Vision gets further into his own words:
'Institute for Sound and Vision
The work of Jaap Drupsteen, the graphic artist responsible for the building-size media collage, used to be everywhere in the Netherlands. This building is his comeback. Along with architecture firm Neutelings Riedijk, he covered the façade of the massive media archive and museum with images from Dutch television, abstracted into a giant four-sided mural and baked directly onto cast glass. The effect is stunning inside and out.
Experiential Beauty: Tour the history of Dutch broadcasting, or simply gaze up at the stained glass from a table at the atrium’s Grand Café.’
Heb bij alle gebouwen nog geen Goetheanum discovered. I'll do anything here own organic architecture throw against it? Then it must be identified, the day before yesterday: "What is Anthroposophical architecture? On March 2 in the FOYER ART ':
Architect Yaike Dunselman of "9 ° architecture" will be on Wednesday March 2, 2011 a lecture on anthroposophic architecture in the TERRATORIUM Philipsstraat 1918, Zoetermeer. Following is the new building "Firebird", Free School for primary education.
Yaike Dunselman has designed the new building for the Free School in Zoetermeer. In response to the devastating fire in 2007 the original school. The design won the design contest by the municipality of Zoetermeer was issued. After a preselection there were three drafts on. Was unanimously elected both the municipality and the school for design Dunselman.
Firebird The building is in the Lakeview neighborhood in Zoetermeer. It is a design that finds its inspiration in anthroposophy. This is a by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) established philosophical worldview.
Anthroposophical architecture
Rudolf Steiner was an artist. He wrote four dramas, which also relied on, painted, sculpted, wrote poetry and created a number of buildings, including the Goetheanum in Dornach (Switzerland). He strove to continue his art and social level between people to be employed.
In this architecture, the design of a building depends primarily on the creativity, but also the approach taken by the architect. Usually it will be a great role for who or what he has built: the function of a building. Anthroposophic or organic architecture can occur if the architect would demand in the building he wants to be seen as characteristic of the people or organization that will use, in form, color and spatial relationships. If this succeeds, the building as related to the users that they may see as a healthy, appropriate environment. For most commodities, ranging from toys to furniture as much as possible using natural materials. This holds also for the Anthroposophical architecture using building materials.
Art Conception
The anthroposophical view, art is not imitation of man and the outer world. Not the visualization of an outer sense impression. The initial impulse of art is the artist's connection with the creative forces and powers, hidden in the outer world. In the process of artistic creation that the artist using the external material is visible.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011, TERRATORIUM, Philips Street in 1918, Zoetermeer. From 19.30-22.00 hours. Admission free. For more information: www.terra-artprojects.com, info@terra-artprojects.comThe Art Foyer is an accessible meeting place for artists, art lovers and those interested. Terra Art Projects organizes monthly meetings in the TERRATORIUM Philipsstraat 18 in Zoetermeer. Come inside. Admission is free. For more information on www.terra-artprojects.com '
The message today is taken from state and Ton van Ingen Schenau De Stentor, Movie Free School Team participates in "48 Hour Film Project in New York':
"The film team from Vrije School De Berkel does this weekend at the 48 Hour Film Project. During the second edition of this prestigious movie competition must be within 48 hours, a short film to be made.
Twenty teams of both novice and professional filmmakers take the challenge in a race against the clock. That means script writing, location scouting, filming, and the final return Sunday.
Berkel The team will compete with advertising agencies, students, business and advanced multimedia enthusiasts. David Wallinga (producer), Silvian Hettich (camera / editing) and Joost van de Westen (directing / editing), all 16 years old, together form by far the youngest crew of all participants. The team is supplemented with others if necessary. Film making seems to continue with them a role to play. Joost is a film school beyond secondary follow Silvian want to go to the Film Academy and David is not sure whether he "regulate" only when the film wants to do. He considers himself a broader training.
Under the guidance of Professor Jeff Eijpe together they have already gained extensive experience in filming. Silvian: "We have made wonderful movies for TV Gelderland Student Television. We are being increasingly asked for. That is a sign that we deliver quality. "They have made reports of the festival and Marches Brothers of the Limburg festival in Nijmegen and have made a report of the Film Festival for students in Lelystad. "They also play an important role in the project Business School in the superstructure, which prepare students for their role in society. The program also economics, marketing, customer handling and customer proposals addressed, "said Eijpe. Today leave one or two members of the crew to Nijmegen to hear where their film has to meet. The rest will stay at home. "Once we have the data we calling around. Then we act quickly to write the script, the selection of players and filming on location. On Sunday, by mounting the matter is concluded ", says Joost. Eijpe still raises a look at the outcome and the case is returned. "I want to help, but that's hardly necessary. They are incredibly independent and they deliver excellent quality. "From 1916 until March 20, all completed films to exhibit Go Short Film Festival and arthouse LUX in Nijmegen. Then known what films are eligible for an award and the winner progressing to the finals in America. "We see it as a great challenge, with the highest creativity score. On to America, "said Silvian driven."
If I'm doing it with this theme, then I have this message from the "Themen der Zeit" by Michael Mentzel, about Das kreative Universe ':
' The latest film of Rüdiger Sünner. Science and spirituality in dialogue. After its screenings now the DVD is released.
rule in scientific research no divine or supernatural forces, but measurable phenomena such as natural laws and molecules that are created in the process of self-organization of all life. But neurobiologists amazed about the creative, communicative and cooperative behavior of the genes; biologists discover in the course design, the participation "immatertieller" and therefore not measurable fields, quantum physicists are reaching the limits of the with the laws of science explainable.
Is there scientific evidence, leave room for the adoption of a "divine", "saints" or "transcendent"? What they mean for our future? In search of answers to these questions, in the film some of the most interesting thinkers in the field of natural science are asked if and how a possible bridge between their disciplines and spiritual questions.
These interfaces between science and spirituality provide startling insights and suggestions for further thought. Travel companion in the exciting "terra incognita of modern natural science is Rupert Sheldrake, Hans Peter Dürr, Thomas Görnitz, Arthur Zajonc, Stuart Kauffman, John Polkinghorne, Simon Conway Morris, George Coyne, Wolfram Schwenk, Bernd Rosslenbroich, Wolfgang Schad, Johannes Wirz, Stephen Harding and Joachim Bauer.
[Additional TDZ] In addition, there - as you would expect from the filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner is - stunning images and graphics sequences that make this film a really interesting whole.
The creative universeGermany 201083 minutes, 16:9, stereo, DVD 9, code freeKapiteleinteilung.Empf. UK: EUR 19.90Press aus dem Text von absolut medien- '
We have similar work in the Netherlands Wim Kayzer, which many special programs for the VPRO has made. The last in 2000. But he is no longer, unfortunately. He now mainly writes novels, I believe. Anyway, now I am on Michael Mentzel, can I still get back to the " RS 150 - On Air" which we left last Monday, February 28 in " Arrival . That blog is now on top of this ' Lebensskizze "with a sound clip of ten and half minutes:
' Aus Robin Schmidt" Rudolf Steiner - Skizze seines Lebens "Erstes Kapitel gelesen von Michael Mentzel im Rudolf Steiner Express
There are again various contributions were added, the four-day trip from Cologne to Vienna via Kraljevec document. As this 'Trainspotting ':
"Aus dem Nichts Tauchen sie auf whom Verbrecherbanden. Schnell Zuck Blitz sie ihre schwarzen und Geräte auf den Zug souls. Klack clack clack clack clack. Gone! Even as the train from its field of view, pack disappears Train Potter again. Trunk and on the next click. The train is not only Steiner, he's a Steinerzug. A special train. It attracts not only anthroposophists but Zugbegeisterte. Harmless bands with cameras who want to integrate this unusual vehicle in its collection. They are everywhere: in the field, on the mountain, on the highway, in front of a tunnel. In Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Germany. Some are content with a picture, go home and show it to their loved ones. But some of them each special train left at light speed on his heels. National borders to be trifling. Motives Nebensache sind. Was zählt, ist der Zug!
on this link, and the wonderful world of trains will pass from the website' bahnbilder.warumdenn.net 'with' Eisenbahn Fotos aus Österreich. And yes, there we see him come, "5-Tages-Sonderfahrt Rudolf Steiner Express':
" Zum 150. Geburtstag des österreichischen philosophers Rudolf Steiner am 27.02.2011, erfolgte von 24. bis 28. Februar 2011 eine Geburtstagsfahrt durch Deutschland, Österreich, Slowenien und Kroatien.
TAG 1: Donnerstag, 24.02.2011took place around 9.00 after the clock of the Rudolf Steiner Zugtaufe Express was to plan departure in Cologne Hbf 9:19 To 18:35, the train then reached Munich Hbf
DAY 2: Friday, 02/25/2011Next days was the onward journey from Munich (4:55) against Austria (Salzburg-Selzthal-Graz-field) to Cakovec (20:10). On the way to Cakovec was Kraljevec - Rudolf Steiner was born here - made a longer stay.
The following photos show the second day DB 103 235 with D 17 173 before the castle Trautenfels Grimming and solid ...
... at Mautern ...
... in chambers ...
... and twice at Stübing, 02/25/2011;
from the border station in Austria / Slovenia (Field Street) took over the train and the SZ 664 119 103 235 was in Graz Central Station is behind.
SZ 664 119, SDZ at 10 792 Sentilj.
DAY 3: Saturday, 02/26/2011DB 103 235 After the transport of the special train on the third day from the field resumed, reaching this Cakovec coming from the southern runway at 20:40 Meidling.
DB 103 235, SDZ 17 176, at Eichberg ...
... and at the entrance Gloggnitz.
DAY 4: Sunday, 27/02/2011was on Sunday in Vienna, and others, the visit of the Austrian National Library in the program.
DAY 5: Monday, 28/02/2011has now begun on the last day to return home from Vienna West (9:00) on the western railway and Munich to Cologne main station. Around 21:56, the terminus was reached.
Mit D 17174 103,235 in Breitenschützing
Wir für thank all Bildzusendungen Herzlich law. "
Beautiful pictures indeed, check it out! (Click on the link.) - As you know, that RS-travel blog roguish also contribute, such as this " RSTV (but oddly enough very few moving image there, you would expect more, or do remember them?). Such 'television material "is in style today. "Sound and Vision ', it's almost if you're there (were), when the extensive diary of the voyage of Claudius Weise read. Info3 yesterday are very long story entitled "Der Rudolf Steiner Express. Klassenfahrt nach Kraljevec - unglaubliche oder Die Reise in einem Zug far-rückten ' on the website (thanks guys!). A class story. At times hilarious ("Silvesterkracher 'is a firecracker, an' astronaut ', for the connoisseurs). Reason enough to fully adopt it here. I am not here for space, on the contrary, the longer the better - as long as it is good. And that's it. So forward, there goes-ie:
"Fünf Tage long rollte there Köln von über Kroatien und zurück nach Wien: Rudolf Steiner zu der Sonderzug 150. Geburtstag. Claudius Weise war für Info3 on board and here reported in detail in his diary Express.
When I first heard about this project, I can not remember, it must have been in autumn 2010. On the 150th Birthday Rudolf Steiner should drive a special train from Cologne to his birthplace Kraljevec to Vienna, consisting of two to four inter-regional freight cars, a nostalgic train restaurant and a Rheingold club car, driven by an old 103er Lok (who remembers more about it: these were the ) beautiful. As a host appeared on the Rudolf Steiner archive in Dornach, assisted by the former railway manager Prof. Karl-Dieter Bodack and renowned anthroposophical companies.
This was the title of "left" even allowed in a strict sense, and I had little desire to be there. Really bring themselves but I could not, because the effort to match the tickets were indeed cheap, but not cheap, and I would have to take my leave. Since the request came in December of release 3, if I would like to ride as rapporteur, and after my colleagues in the theater Stuttgart forum had agreed to me of 24-28. release February, I said to outgoing.
The following is my travel diary, as I have not written mostly during the trip - incomplete, subjective, but above all, far too long.
Wednesday 23 February
arrival in Cologne main station at 22.05 clock. It's almost like a shock when you come out from this place of pure functionality and directly facing the sublime construction of the Cologne Cathedral. I go to my hotel immediately on Frankenkai, where I can just come. In my room comes to my mind that I have to write an article for release 3 and I need it not only watching but also a few good ideas going. Internally, the Rudolf Steiner-Express was by his organizers in advance so in "Karma Express" was renamed because the composition of its passengers in this regard is promising. This increases my excitement and anticipation, but as the title, this term is therefore no longer in question - I'm not the Lord to Guttenberg. A few less witty headlines such as "Murder in the West express" or "The train of time" to shoot through my head, but then I would rather go to sleep.
Thursday 24 February
On my way to the train station, I equip the Cathedral spontaneously from a visit. When I saw him through the side door again leave, I notice on the deeper station forecourt a strikingly large number of young people. "This will surely not have to do with the Rudolf Steiner-Express?" I wonder. But then I notice in one small group, the strides in slow motion on the station. Vera Koppehel from Steiner Archive is happy and radiant with a melon on the small head at the entrance and look to them. And since Prof. Marcelo da Veiga, Rector of the University Alanus I've already met him twenty years ago when I was young and he was horror. His students are to show a performance here, as far as I know.
pull Suddenly, almost all young people, gathered in the square - it could be even 150 - red plastic bags over their jackets and start eurythmy exercises. It is the first Eurythmy Flashmob in world history, as I hear from Marcelo, which was organized by students of the Waldorf environment of Facebook and Twitter. "What's going on here?" Complains an elderly lady, who armed with an umbrella trudges through the snow and mud gets into the surging mass of students. Instinctively I start to grin.
flows after completion of the flash mob on track 1, where the train actually as Rudolf-Steiner-Express and will appear in the historical category TEE. Living Pictures and installations again by the students of Alanus University to bring the sentence: "The mysteries found in the central station instead of" a wink to view. Driven by nervous conductors, Prof. Veiga renamed as "with a bottle of champagne - or sparkling wine" high official or the train and railraod we are at 9:19 clock in motion.
My place is in the 1 Class, where the representatives of the press are interned. Unfortunately, there seem not to have the windows open, as we discovered to our displeasure. But Prof. Bodack, who at the time the specially developed for the Rudolf Steiner-Express reactivated Interregio car and with a certain paternal pride on their merits pointing ("You can hang your clothes"), provide a short hand of the producer the right to claim, even occasionally use violence. "Now you've done something!" Grumbles out with a red face a conductor: "Now we get the window to stop, because it's freshly painted"
The next stop is waiting for us in the club car, designed again by students of the Alanus College. Your text collage "Steiner-Research" is an entertaining and provocative mix of judgments and prejudices, personal statements and quotations. It is about the nature of man and the threefold, Götz Werner and Ramon Bruell come to honor, but also critical sets of Steiner are listening to what Manuel Gogos from Germany Funk, who sits across from me, very happy, because he feared obviously having to spend three days in a kind of rolling Bible study.
expected in Mannheim us at the station emissaries of Waldorf schools in the area with banners, on which "Rudi" is congratulated. They sing the birthday child a colorful potpourri of "Ode to Joy", "The sun intones," and "I'm happy all day" to "When Israel was in Egypt's land ", suggesting that overall, understand Anthroposophy as indefatigable idealists in earthly exile.
Back on the train Hansjörg Hofrichter explained in the context of the club cars Waldorf Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart and other companies with the threefold movement and - of course - the Waldorf School. A little later reads Dagmar Skwara with cheerful casualness excerpts from Steiner's letters and works, in which occurs the search term "station", and whenever she scrolls just looking at her papers, engages Andrea buckwheat presence of mind in the keys of the club cars installed piano in order to the Present a variation of "Uff dr schwäbsche Eisabahne" to vote, which begins: "The Anthro-Eisebahne / Fahrn we happily through the countryside / mountains, valleys, towns, rivers / Are pleasures for the eye well! / Trulla trulla trullala etc. "The fact that this all mittut good, is a resounding testament to the good nature of the assembled company. Then Prof. Bodack said with shining eyes, the special risks of our roadmap, which find expression, among other things, that our train had to be against "destruction" insured, what insurance is German for serious damage to property by force majeure or adverse circumstances.
between I was twice in the train restaurant, where there are very inexpensive and delicious organic food. In addition, you get to know where casual travel companions, if they are not already familiar with it will, and soon found that one inevitably to the unknown faces tells a few friends. That the whole thing is something - I will not say: Friendly, but it looks a bit like the reunion of an integrated comprehensive school for higher spiritual development.
(By the way I win is already an impression that will strengthen in the course of the tour: The message to write for release 3, brings more subdued polite skepticism as joyful interest. "Aha, one of those! What will probably write ... "- written something like this might's in their faces. Some would even loudly self-blame, even speaking with me. I get used to, therefore, add at once that I actually work at the Forum Theatre in order to appease the suspicions a little. People, as there is an image problem!)
had happened after Stuttgart-Untertuerkheim shamefully not distributed in Ulm Hbf "Initiative Basic Income" golden cardboard crown to those who, during the unanimous Stay married to the platform. Then someone comes with the acclamation: "That's your basic income for this month" by the train and pushes a 150 € each bill with the portrait Steiner in his hand, issued by the "Cosmic National Bank".
Finally we arrive at about 18:30 clock Munich main station, where we expect a delegation Waldorf student who - inspired by our impending "doom" - a welcome "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles singing. We thank the manner and rush into our houses and then straight to the Schwabing Waldorf school, where we are hungry for a delicious breakfast rush. Then we briefly welcomes Bodo Bühling on behalf of the school, and Andrea buckwheat practices with us, a three-part birthday song for the day, what anlässt surprisingly good. Vera Koppehel, still radiant from happiness, shares with us some organizational details for the next day, among other things, this means that we will arrive with at least 199 guests in Kraljevec after it went off with only 100 in Cologne, Germany.
As in Munich, the mystery plays were first performed to improvise Axe Katja and Jens Bodo Meier of the Goetheanumbühne under the motto "mystery plays - up close" three short excerpts different from the life of Johannes Thomasius, which I like very much, but when, following Prof. Bodack to the lectern occurs, I fall in an act of gross discourtesy to the door to me early to go to my hotel, because it is now 21:00 clock and tomorrow it is to get up at 4:00 clock. Strangely enough, have the radio and colleague from Germany Achim Hellmich the "Goetheanum" the same idea, and as Curro Cachinero of "The Three" has come not only finds this last item, so to speak instead to the exclusion of the public. Afterwards, I learn that Prof. Bodack about the history of anthroposophy in Munich, and, according to a thematic platform changes, spoke about the history of inter-regional.
Friday 25 February
At half past four clock in the morning gathers a select crowd in the lobby of the Maritim Hotel and trots to the station where the non-defunct train stores on time at 4:55 clock. While walking through the last day for my feeling a red thread, the following twelve-hour train ride seems a bit frayed after Kraljevec what could be but also because I myself am completely disintegrated.
first waiting all that can be served in the dining car serving breakfast, and then waits one until a place becomes available, because our number has now risen to 180 - and 179 because a woman has missed the train (she picks us up again later). Thanks to good relations with the waiters, it's my turn in record time and then install me in the club car, where I intend to wait for the next items. That takes a little while, but now it sits out there and we go into the mountains, so there is plenty to see, and interesting conversations are easy to pick anyway.
represents In another sample of the birthday song around 9:00 clock first, before Prof. Bodack his two books, of which he one thing: discover "yourself - Understanding Others "is with a winning self-mockery as the quintessence of 1,000 years of human striving for knowledge, the other as a" crime ", namely - dear reader, you can guess it - the history of inter-regional. His characterization of the project Stuttgart 21 as a combination of megalomania with luziferischem ahrimanic greed fills me with deep satisfaction as Wutbürger Stuttgart. Then there Daniell Porsche few examples from his book about the crimes committed by him to the best school pranks, of which the leaves to the wreath, in which a New Year cracker was installed meaningful, lasting impression.
As unannounced extra lead Jens Bodo Meier and Katja Axe three other clips from the mystery plays, but in the clattering train my concentration is twice as hard, and while Andrea buckwheat, which obviously does not need sleep, again instructs an upbeat choir practice, I shake the bar for a coffee, a brownie, and - if they did, because it - a pack Waldorf Astoria to purchase cigarettes, which are all available. As then distributed Stefanie Gather at the club car sound to clay modeling with the audience dwarfs, I take refuge in the dining car too early, but where can I find out that, unfortunately, no lunch can be taken.
Since it fits well, that we will take a half hour stay in Graz, to the end I may eat lead to the desired loaf. Under the plan, but now with Walter Kugler from the Rudolf Steiner archive before the club car Aphoristic from Steiner biography, but is there assured me that it was packed there and Kugler talking too softly, calmed my conscience. After all, I'm sitting at a table with Prof. Bodack and Arnold Kühn of rail event, whose expertise in terms of railway is really astounding (did you know that there are complaints on a huge wagon cemetery?). As I pass on the way to my place the club car, the talk is now over, and I learn that a previously lost Walter Kugler it thinks stories of the 23-year-old Steiner has read that has been identified recently in a Budapest library. Now I am quite frustrated and trudge to the previously created by dwarfs to my compartment to dutifully to use my notes.
The last hours before the finish are then downright grueling boring. In Slovenia, we exchange one of our beautiful locomotive against a U.S. license-built diesel monster, and now the train trundles in parts only at 40 km / h through the area if he does not remain equally with all. At the Slovenian-Croatian border, we are controlled by the respective delegations fiercest border policemen, and the Slovenians get prompt a lady from the train, which simply can not find her papers. In return, the Croats have a little more time than their colleagues.
now come to local guides, who tell us about County of Medjimurje, ie the area that we visit now. In addition, our program will be explained in the upcoming Kraljevec what decides the witty and articulate leader in my car with the words: "And then we will go to the church for the surprise concert with Miha Pogacnik," by which the surprise is ruined. Another surprise, he has withheld from us but cunning. Because when we finally arrive around 17:00 clock in Kraljevec, perform Andrea not only buckwheat and Hannah Hart Mountain unscheduled eurythmic a greeting, but we expected a marching band, which precedes the way to the birthplace of Tschingderassabum. I walk just behind the head and realize that there arm in arm with Vera Koppehel Michaela Gloeckler is that suddenly in this place seems to have materialized (in fact, it is natural boarded in Graz).
with the active participation of the villagers who come either marched or trellis is equal, we at the birthplace of, the marching band at the end appropriately enough "Oh when the saints go marchin 'in" blares. Here are hot drinks ready - it's bitter cold - and huge quantities of cakes and pies, for it is a birthday to celebrate. The house itself is a possible modest, single-storey building, with a side entrance leading to some stairs into a small memorial room. At the foot of the stairs now a marathon speech is held to be the first two rounds still to wait patiently and applauded friendly. take as a representative of the Croatian railway but the word, the threshold drops to squeeze an arm's length behind the speakers to pass on the memorial space considerably.
The memorial room is maybe 12 square meters large and sparsely furnished. In the middle a table with a new guest book, in which one can register and an old of 1966, written on the flyleaf reads: "May this place by its foreign visitors are returned, what the world owes him." opposite to the wall in heavy wood frame is a picture of Rudolf Steiner from his time in Berlin with the famous quote: "life in love to act and let live in understanding of the foreign will is the fundamental maxim of free men."
Finally, gifts, presents a bust unveiled and released two white doves circling for a while about the birthplace. These operations are of course accompanied by mutual thanks, but I've long since given up trying to take notes because I'm busy trying to keep my fingers from freezing. We sing our birthday song, and then it goes to the nearby church, where we have to wait a bit though, just because a fair is held. As we sit there, but huddled together and stand while Miha Pogacnik violin sound fills the room, joins together the whole day inside me and I'm really happy.
Another quick march through the cold, and we reach a restaurant, where long tables and a buffet ready for us. Children and young people from the local cultural club, dressed in costumes music and dance for us, which is really very excellent. But here is no long stay, for the train waiting for us. As he stands there alone, dressed in dark night at the tiny station, he suddenly seems to us like a familiar home.
While we now exhausted Cakovec rolling direction, where most of us are accommodated in a hotel, spread our Croatian guide to my surprise "tickets for the show". Then I remember: the program was still a bit of ceremony and banquet hall, and eurythmy. Oh you love goodness! Get out there and back from the train and in double time through deserted suburbs that look like the apocalyptic backdrop of a Tarkovsky film. By the fortifications of the Zrinski Castle, in whose arches we are greeted by shouts of drunken young people with German, we finally arrive in the village, where there is the cultural center of Cakovec.
We are now an hour behind schedule, but audiences and Eurythmy Ensemble have been waiting patiently in the hall. However, they may have to wait a little longer, because at first is Michaela Gloeckler called on stage. Although it has, reportedly, by a feverish Disease hardly had time to prepare, but since they could even improvise a anthroposophical keynote address when she cracks up from sleep at night, their contribution gets worthy and sincere. The boyish loose the County Governor Medimurje says a few words, and Vera Koppehel tells some wonderful details in the beginning of the project. By the way, all the speeches in Kraljevec and Chakovec be a very sympathetic and very excellent interpreter, the German not to bring the longest run-on sentences from the rest translated.
And then the hour of IONA eurythmy ensemble from Zagreb. It shows an attractive, extremely versatile program, the German, English, French and Croatian texts serious and cheerful character and the music of Anton Bruckner to Charlie Chaplin, united without seeming arbitrary or thrown together. Fascinate me personally the most, the contrasts within the ensemble: the pale, red-haired pianist who sits frozen behind her piano and performs with brittle modesty of their work, and the casually elegant speaker with the rasping voice that emphasizes authority between four languages back and herwechselt ; the tall, somewhat stiff, filled with quiet pride branch manager from Zagreb, and the young woman who self-love the pretty soft movements Head with half-closed eyelids and an indicated smile with his lips.
at 23:00 clock, we are for 19 hours on the legs, the curtain lowered to deserved applause. One final march through the cold at the hotel and I am going into my single room - no, wait: three rooms. For, as I am Ruth Bamberg by the organization team has previously declared: "Dear Claudius way in Chakovec you can choose from the village square and a triple." Given the prevailing temperatures, this is almost a death threat. Anyway, my roommates are very nice, and with the prospect of a sensational seven hours of sleep, I wrap myself facilitated in the ceiling.
Actually it was quite appropriate, I think that Daniell Porsche has given us this morning about a New Year's Eve bomb. That day was like a New Year's Eve crash: first, he slowly smoldering in front of him and exploded in a stunning festive program.
Saturday 26 February
The average breakfast buffet is the jury agrees, the room was either too warm, too cold or windy, at least. In our Express, which is at 8:50 clock in motion again, it is practically better, as no longer in the train restaurant, the heating works and the meals must be taken in winter temporarily fixed street clothes. We have once again visited by the border police, but now seem to be convinced of our innocence and look a little more, may enter our confiscated traveling again, and then we jog slowly back through Slovenia. In the field, our beautiful 103er Lok again biased and now we go over the Semmering to Vienna.
As in the previous two days, I noticed at the track rail enthusiasts contemporaries, who are from dark sources about our Roadmap precisely oriented and ready to take pictures. Our train journey should but also be one of the best documented events in history otherwise, because you can actually take any moderately picturesque posture, without being immediately snapped by anyone. The official photographer drags also have a tape recorder around with him, and who is under thirty and not for the service team is one that guarantees skin contributions to the RS 150-blog is not in his notebook (only Curro Cachinero, but to write yes for "The Three "and also has its Mac already given up the ghost).
So much zeal documentation creates a certain pressure to perform, and therefore I use my notes during the first hours for yesterday and putting myself in the club car. There Wolfgang Zumdick reads from his book, "Rudolf Steiner in Vienna" a couple of chapters, the places of Steiner's childhood and youth are given, including - despite the title - and Kraljevec Neudörfl. The selected excerpts emphasize the element of the miraculous and supernatural in Steiner's life by the author writes, for example, stations were "the mythical places where we learn that we are on a journey of the soul", by the story of the suicide on aunt cited that the young Steiner asked the station of Pottschach for help, or as he recounts the experience of the aged farmers Ivan Tizaj, in the second generation on his property located birthplace guards, and on the night of the 80th Anniversary of the death of Rudolf Steiner - be it now in a dream or not - the deceased appeared to him to press the thanks for his faithful service to his hand.
achieve at 15:35 clock we Neudörfl, where we expect to find some curious and mayors and vice mayors, touching their welcome speeches by its pleasant warmth and brevity. Then you go to the Rudolf Steiner Seminar Center, where we are the favorite cake Rudolf Steiner, namely, apple strudel and ring cake served. The colleague from Germany presents his radio proficiency in anthroposophy demonstrated by deriving the form of the First Goetheanum the Bundt cake, and while I'm still digesting this knowledge as well as two pieces of cake, Katja with Axe, accompanied by the clatter of coffee cups, brave the source of miracles from the First Mystery Drama before. Then we visit the oldest district, the Neugebäu, the simple village church and the former school building in which there is now a supermarket, and rises before the mind's eye once again to the small, narrow world, grew up in the stone.
The next stop of our trip, Brunn am Gebirge, is not far from Neudörfl, and yet the atmosphere there completely different - as if the old dividing line between cis and Kingdom of Hungary, which runs between the two places, not lost its relevance. The Slav Melancholy has given broad comfort, prosperity and civic pride can be felt. Also, the limbs yard, we go in now radiates with its meter thick walls crushing solidity. Here to welcome the mayor and the chairman of the association, which has saved this building complex from decay and transformed into a charming country house after the last representatives of the eponymous family, three had died childless bachelor. Wolfgang Zumdick can not resist the joke, these are the famous three links have been.
is the real significance of the place, however, is that Rudolf Steiner's parents had an apartment here from 1882-99, which included a small study, that in the works include the "Outlines of an epistemology of Goethe's world view." This same study room and the living room of the family are prepared as a memorial, a living room might be a little pushy with the pink, pardon: peach blossom glazed wall and the heavy bookcase Rose Cross and the inscription: "EDN / ICM / PSSR \u0026lt;(If you can not decrypt the can now go first to the shame in the corner). More affected the Steiner's study, to which it - goes up a few levels because it is above the doorway - small theme. Besides some pictures houses a bust Steiner, written behind on a plaque reads: "The awareness of the idea into reality is the true communion of man."
In the garden we have a look on the grave stone of Steiner's parents and his sister, and then we are two friendly police officers returned to the station, from which we arrive after a short trip to Vienna. From the organizational team with 48-hour tickets and good wishes provided, and we're going to own the hotel, and as late as tomorrow 11:00 clock goes on, there is still a bit of time for trips to Vienna by night.
Sunday 27 February
Finally! Rudolf Steiner's birthday, and thus - at least in idea - the highlight of our trip. After that, it feels at first but not at all, although the opening matinee is very festive, namely the National Library in the Hofburg. You have to first find the proper input. With our card, a small red book on the "Rudolf Steiner Express 150" is printed, we will get free entry and feel of the meaning of also red Mao Bible during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, remembers about it in the Imperial Palace is also just an exhibition.
The matinee runs itself worthy, but not stiff. Prof. Rudolf Leopold plays on his cello stunning solo pieces by Egon Wellesz and Paul Hindemith, Vera and Stephan Koppehel Siber read out the names of those who are in the Rudolf Steiner-year Ehrenkomittee represented, including such diverse figures as Ibrahim Abouleish, the conductor Franz Welser -Möst, Dimitri and downhill skier Franz Klammer, Austrian representative of anthroposophy and Waldorf education speak out, and Wolfgang Zumdick read more chapters of "Rudolf Steiner in Vienna." The focus, however, is the speaker Walter Kugler.
This only makes a few jokes and then says, his speech was really short, really over. Then he takes but a while, and somehow it seems to me like a mischievous Kugler dwarf king, who conjures up from virtually inexhaustible treasuries always new treasures. As he quotes Ludwig Wittgenstein with the sentence. "One must think only a lot crazier than the philosophers to solve their problems" In this sense, Steiner was actually be crazy, because he was not located in the central axis, where all the crowd. And then brings Kugler plenty delightful examples of Steiner Ver retroactive changes, such as: "The butterfly flying thought is," because he had developed at the same time as the human brain, but he was also from the earth freed plant and This reversed the tethered to the earth butterfly.
After the matinee will be catered for with specially baked bread and Demeter birthday drinks and 13:40 clock continues with tours of Rudolf Steiner's Vienna. Unfortunately, despite bright sunshine once again terribly cold, and so itself can not prevent the competence and friendliness of our leaders, that dissolve the groups during the two and a half hour tour through Vienna slow because its members seek the warmth of a restaurant or coffee shops. Also, I neglected my reporting, but that is not least because I now have enough of external impressions and the feeling of suffering, bring only feuilletonist surface descriptions about, without having to touch the heart of the matter really can.
This leaves me feeling even during the lecture, the Walter Kugler at 16:30 clock in the Lower Belvedere holds on "Rudolf Steiner and the kineticism. Kugler explained the spiritual atmosphere of departure at the beginning of the 20th Century varied, varied the location of the inversion and of course the movement, of rhythm and time. Again a lot of ideas that you would ever deepening love and of which you can feel that they are related, but you have unfortunately only the parts in hand, because the spiritual bond of the encyclopaedic knowledge of the speaker is not sufficiently clearly emerges. Afterwards, there is still a three-quarter hour for the exhibition on the kineticism, actually I would prefer to hide myself in a cafe, but oh well, let's look again to see what this Kinedingsbums is.
And here, in this Exhibition shoot unexpectedly many together almost too much of that unusual trip at once into a whole. I see the works of these artists who are between Futurism, Cubism and Expressionism moving and not particularly famous, are perhaps not even particularly important. But I see the will to try something new, I see a serious search for the joy of experimentation and the passionate devotion to an idea. And I realize what I get from this trip as a permanent recognition, not merely abstract, but a reminder of a concrete experience that will take:
It should be much bolder. Radical. In other words, You should trust more. Confident that in the future that accommodates what has not given the past, confident that found an idea that's time, and their space is, trust that the consciousness is able to change the being and that people when they work together who freely choose to bring more state than under compulsion. But this trip is an example. It is de-ranged in the sense that Kugler describes. If you think in retrospect, what could go wrong, all of which can be organized or had to fit just happy, then one might get dizzy.
Of course, one can say that This trip was entirely external, that with Steiner and what he wanted to do nothing at all. Beautiful, Steiner's father was a railway official, and therefore he spent his childhood on or near railway stations, and of course he later went much train - what else? If it had been Steiner's father Bauspengler, then we would probably difficult to tinker with a rain gutter. Does this train is not a surrender to that event culture, which is the opposite of what would bring about Anthroposophy? And I will give you about in this way the public an accurate picture of Steiner's work?
Reality can but changed only by ideas that are not censored from the start to their feasibility and impact point. It is the superfluous, not necessary as we move forward. This train was intended as a gift to the birthday child and have so far, like all gifts, not necessary. Even art is, strictly speaking, not necessary, and yet it has a transforming power, because it gives us the intuition of a higher, or rather heightened reality gives. The organizers have designed this trip as a kind work of art, namely, as a social sculpture, and succeeded. Whether assumes any effect? One may doubt it, but then we also need every performance of a play or hold a piece of music for in vain.
These thoughts I try to paper while I'm sitting in a café Griensteidl and the beginning of the last event waiting to be held in the connected Karl Kraus Hall. Curro Cachinero of "The Three" is up to me to also work on his report, and when the meal exchange, we come from our experiences. Then it's off to next door where the hall is bursting at the seams. Zumdick here under the title reads: "Rudolf Steiner in the coffee house" a very amusing and diverse collection of texts that Steiner's person and his significant effect in the eyes Contemporaries reflect. Most of these texts, I know, but as I said in one corner of the room against the wall stood leaning and the listeners flock back to the lecture ends, look on the high end at the back of the head goes so abruptly in a riot of curls that Hollywood without him further than eccentric designer of a time machine would occupy - I am really back in time in which Steiner lived here and worked.
Monday 28 February
9:00 clock departure from Vienna West train station. A student choir of the Waldorf School in Vienna-Mauer singing spiritual songs, including the conclusion, a Spiritual, insured in the swinging is that one is ready to ride with the chariot to see Jesus. We are, though no guarantee of success, and now it's back home.
The rest is quickly told. The closer to the end, the more the sadness is spreading here and there in the following hours and tears flow, and even addresses are exchanged quickly out those conversations to which one has not yet come. In a small ceremony, the members of the service team of all passengers will be thanked with warm applause, and Vera Koppehel explained on that occasion that the character of a social sculpture, not least expressed in it was that all Parties have given their work, and our food and other supplies had been donated. ! What have you done here, was the alchemy of everyday life, "she calls to our chefs - a compliment that you can do all those who have provided on this trip for our well-being. As Prof. Bodack will not stand back and then once more told from the alternating rich history of inter-regional, where he makes it clear that it had also held a project that had been considered by many to be impossible.
The general soft state of mind I can not of course affect all residuals ironic distance have now resolved as sugar in coffee, so I am a participant in the last minute but yet Stephanie Gathers Dwarf project. When they help me indicating that it would not be difficult to provide my dwarf, or rather dwarf head with eyes, I refuse, however, on the flimsy pretext, constitutes this is stylization. Shortly after running the last attempt to organize a reading in the club car, rather ineffective, because the form that held us together for four days, noticeably lose power. A few background discussions with Ruth and Vera Koppehel Bamberg, where I find out which anthroposophical institutions support organizations and the Rudolf Steiner-Express and which have not (let's say this: the Brazilians have not disappointed) - and then for me it is already over. Instead of going to Cologne, I get out in Stuttgart-Untertuerkheim, where my wife is with a camera on the platform. But not to me but to scan our locomotive.
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