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We welcome you to the Newsletter of the Karl König Archive!

Dear friends of the Karl König Archive,
For your Summer reading we send you our third Newsletter! There has been a lot of movement the past months.....literally so with the marathon! We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for making that such a special occasion - whether you ran yourself or sponsored someone! At the moment we are still collecting the sponsorship sums but we can already see that this will also be a financial success and will help us forwards tremendously. Apart from the new volumes in the Karl König Collected Works, the commemorative book for 70 years of Camphill: "Portrait of Camphill - From Founding Seed to Worldwide Movement" has just come out with Floris Books and seems to be a worthy successor to "Candle on the Hill". Do not forget that the books on König's Soul Calendar work will be out before Christmas in preparation for the exhibitions that will take place in London (January 2011), Botton Village (in February) and then in Berlin for Easter and possibly Stuttgart in Autumn. Check the website for latest news! www.karl-koenig-archive.net
Hopefully our next letter will be coming from the newly founded KARL KÖNIG INSTITUTE! We are still in the process for recognition of charity status for this new association as legal body for the Archive and what developes out of it.

With very best wishes for a good summertime, Richard.

Newsletter number 1 started its way into the world in February of 2009.
Newsletter number 2 went out before Christmas 2009, after we had waited for feedback.

There was so much positive echo that we decided to print regularly. So here is the new edition:

Newsletter 3 for Summer 2010

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Project background

Dr. Karl König in his Deed of Testament appointed his three friends Alix Roth, the Reverend Peter Roth and Carlo Pietzner as executors of his literary Estate, which came into effect after his death in 1966. His wish was that Camphill House Library would be a Memorial Library and along with all his written works, be available for the whole of the Camphill Movement.
Following Dr. König's wishes his executers and other dedicated members of Camphill have taken on to order, develop and publish parts of his literary Estate.
Due to the death and ill heath of Trustees discussions and consultations with the Camphill Movement led to the transfer of responsibilities to Michael Luxford and Nick Poole. Since then Nick Michael and an international group of König's friends have put a tremendous amount of work into the production and financing of publications from Dr König's literary estate.

A lot of energy and work has been invested over the last 40 years by these people who had still met and intimately known Dr. König.
A further development of the Estate occurred in 2006 with the appointment of the 7 new executors to ensure that the transfer of responsibilities as set out in Dr Konig's settlement was secured.
In order to protect and secure the Intellectual Rights of the Karl König's unpublished works it has been necessary for the archive trustees to bring forward the translation and publications of these treasured documents.
In the spirit of the development of Camphill there is a need to embrace the vision of Karl König, his impulse and the significant contributions to our society and the benefit to mankind.
For this impulse to continue in the New Millennium the Archive wishes to address the need to change and provide a professional, public and strategic foundation to address and foster the perceived tasks ahead. It sees its tasks not only to preserve the physical form of the valuable Karl König archive housed in his rooms at Camphill House, Aberdeen but also to enable the treasures there to become an active resource for the future through appropriate exploration by scholars, academics and other interested parties as well as members of the worldwide Camphill Movement.
In particular the Archive would focus on his contributions in the realms of health and social renewal: the foundations he laid their current expression within the Camphill communities and their implication for future development within Camphill and the wider world.

Camphill House

The Archive is housed in 3 rooms (where Karl König once lived) in Camphill House. The building is owned by Camphill Estates LTD.
Currently, since the death of Virtus Werthmann there are 6 trustees, (Friedwart Bock, David Coe, Stefan Geider,
Christof Hänni and Judy Sweet) based in Aberdeen and Richard Steel in Germany. Prof. Dr. Peter Selg in
Switzerland, is responsible for the activities in the Research and Study Archive in Dornach, and is advisor for the whole projekt.

We seek the services of other stakeholders when and where required to bring an additional element of expertise to the development of the Archive Project.

The first room of the Archive has been renovated to enable the new work on the materials on site. Almost all of Karl König's written material has now been microfilmed and scanned to digital format. This was made possible with a generous grant from the Camphill Foundation.

A meeting of trustees in the Archive: from left to right Stefan Geider,  David Coe, Vitus Werthmann†, Friedwart Bock, Christoph Hänni

To fund the current and future development of the Archive and protect Karl König's legacy the archive group must now secure a structured financial commitment from within the Camphill Movement to carry out a 5 years project development.


Tasks already completed

• The team, has now established the physical space and logistic to accommodate archive work, research and    publication both in Camphill House and Dornach, Switzerland
• Microfilming and scanning to digital format of complete unpublished works has been completed and stored at    Camphill House and a copy in the National Archive in the UK
• The Concept of the complete work edition for publication in both German and English has been established
• Endorsement by the Anthroposophic Medical Section in the UK
• Agreement and cooperation with the two publishers Floris Books in Scotland and Verlag Freies Geistesleben in    Germany has been reached.
• Approval and endorsement of Archive Project proposal for submission to Camphill Foundation by Camphill    Association GB
• Grant application submitted to the Camphill Foundation UK and agreement in principle excepted
• Publication of first books 1&2 in English and German in summer 2008



Tasks to be completed

Task 1 (2008)

• Archive Grant Application submission to Camphill Inter-Regional Finance Group
• Public lectures and launch of publication at Rudolf Steiner House in London scheduled for September 2008.
• The Karl König Archive activities in Germany will be the managerial responsibility of Richard Steel. From summer
   2008 onwards he will be the full time representative of the Archive Group in Germany. In this capacity he will
   deliver lectures, hold workshops and produce further material for publications.
• Seek approval for Grant funding request from Camphill Inter-Regional Finance Group

Task 2

• It is recognised that the Archive is embedded in a charitable organisation, the Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools.
   It is the intention of the Archive Group over the life of this project to initiate and establish the Karl König  
   Archive as a charitable Organisation in its own right.


Current Project resources

Our most important resource is the published and yet unpublished literary legacy of Dr. König.
The Trustees will be responsible for the Project Management as detailed below.

· Vitus Werthmann †

· Friedwart Bock: Shares, together with the other trustees the responsibility for the upkeep and administration   of the Archive. Friedwart has been part of Camphill since 1949 and knew Karl König well. He has been   personally involved with the work of the Archive for many years.

· Christoph Hänni: joined Camphill 1983. He has experience in publishing, layout and IT development.

· David Coe: who spent some of his childhood in Newton Dee has lived and worked in Camphill Communities both
  in Britain and Germany since 1977. He managed the microfilming and digitising of the archive material. His skills
  are in IT and Translation.

· Stefan Geider: Doctor in the Camphill Medical Practice, consultant to various Camphill Communities who has
  spent many years in the Camphill Movement. He has extensive experience of project management.

· Richard Steel: has lived and worked for over 35 years in various Camphill communities in the UK, Germany and
  the States. Out of his commitment to Karl König's work and with accepting the position of Trustee he took on
  responsibility for the development of the Archive. He has experience with writing and publishing books and
  would be the German representative of the Archive, with a small office, in close affinity to Camphill in Berlin
  (his wife will continue to be directly involved in Camphill). His work and responsibilities for the archive are the
  following:

a) Direct work in the archive, publishing some books himself (already clearly identified), coordination and
    supervision of further publications by other editors

b) Planning and implementation of Karl König's complete work edition

c) Coordination of the German and English publishers (Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart und Floris Books,
    Edinburgh

d) Public relations, fundraising and advertising in the German landscape

e) Development and publication of a 2 yearly international newsletter (in various languages) starting January
    2009

· Prof. Dr. Peter Selg: Director of the Ita Wegman Institute for anthroposophic research in Arlesheim
  (Switzerland).
  He is Professor for Medical Anthropology at the Alanus Free University for Arts Society and is a consultant in
  child andadolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. His publications include numerous works on the principles of
  medicine, Rudolf Steiner's biography and other biographical and spiritual research themes of those involved in
  the founding of anthroposophy. He is consultant to the Archive Group and his responsibilities include: Managing
  and developing the Karl König Study and Research Archive in Dornach and is member of the managing team for
  the publication of the complete works.