Publications

Karl König, the founder of Camphill, was a prolific lecturer and writer on awide range of subjects from
anthroposophy and Christology through social questions and curative education to science and history.
The Karl König Archives are working on a programme of publishing these works over the coming years.

Karl König's collected works are being published in English by Floris Books, Edinburgh and in German by
Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart. They are issued by the Karl König Archive Aberdeen, in co-operation
with the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy, Arlesheim. They seek to encompass
the entire, wideranging literary estate of Karl König, including his books, essays, manuscripts, lectures, diaries,
notebooks, his extensive correspondence and his artistic works. The publications will fall into twelve subjects.
The aim is to open up König's work in a systematic way and make it accessible. This work is carried by many
people in different countries.

Overview of Karl König Archive subjects

Medicine and study of the human being
Curative education and social therapy
Psychology and education
Agriculture and science
Social questions
The Camphill movement
Christianity and the festivals
Anthroposophy
Spiritual development
History and biographies
Artistic and literary works
Karl König's biography
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Publications by Floris Books
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KARL KÖNIG:    The Child with Special Needs    http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/books/9780863156939

Karl König, the founder of Camphill, was a prolific lecturer and writer on a wide range of subjects from anthroposophy and Christology through social questions and curative education to science and history. The Karl König Archive are working on a programme of publishing these works over the coming years. This is the fourth book to be published in the series. In this remarkable collection of Karl König's letters and essays, König considers and discusses the fundamentals of special needs education. He shows that there are three core aspects to a successful holistic education and healing approach: firstly, a positive social environment, which in the context of Camphill is achieved through small family units of carers and children; secondly, that carers' work is based on an insightful understanding of the nature and potential of each individual child and disability; and thirdly that medical treatment is imbued with courage to keep believing that the impossible is possible.

KARL KÖNIG Seeds for Social Renewal             http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/books/9780863157042

In these lectures König explores the human being and social life, the individual and community, from an imaginative and often radical perspective. These explorations range majestically from masks and archetypal images, the threefold constitution in man and woman, the karma of vocation, and the fundamental social law, to the place of work, religion and culture within the threefold social organism, and karma and reincarnation. These lectures arose from Karl König's experiences in building up Camphill Communities with extraordinary people with special needs. They are important both for the work in Camphill, as well as more broadly in the field of social therapy and beyond. This is a revised and expanded edition of the Village Conference Lectures of Karl König, previously published as In Need of Special Understanding.

KARL KÖNIG:    MY TASK                                     http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/books/9780863156281

Born in 1902 into a Jewish family, Karl König grew up in Vienna in the lastyears of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied medicine and during thistime came across the work of Rudolf Steiner. Soon after graduating he worked with Ita Wegman in Switzerland, where he also met his wife, Tilla. He founded a home for children with special needs, Pilgrimshain, in Silesia, Germany. However, in 1935 under political pressure he left Germany for Austria. Here he had a large medical practice as well as being the focus ofa group of young people interested in Steiner's work. Following the annexation of Austria by the Nazis, König and many of the young people around him came to Britain as refugees. The ideal of working together as a community was put into practice with the founding of Camphill in 1939. König was the driving force behind the expansion of the Camphill movement across the British Isles, into Europe, South Africa and North America. He died in 1966.

KARL KÖNIG'S PATH INTO ANTHROPOSOPHY          http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/books/9780863156298

This book follows Karl König's spiritual journey from his early years to the end of his life. Through the words of his diaries, in which his battles with health and his impatient temperament are recorded with merciless honesty, we can follow his inner path that led to profound insights into the nature ofchildren with special needs. His personal wrestlings and innate spirituality laid the foundation for his work in the Camphill Schools and Villages.

ITA WEGMAN AND KARL KöNIG       http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/books/9780863156618

Ita Wegman, born in 1876 to a Dutch family living in Indonesia, first met Rudolf Steiner in Berlin in 1902 when she was 26 years old. She studied medicine at the University of Zurich and in 1917, following Steiner's indications, developed a treatment for cancer using mistletoe. In 1921 she founded the first anthroposophical medical clinic, in Arlesheim, Switzerland, followed in 1922 by the Sonnenhof home for children with special needs. Karl König first met Wegman in 1927, and she quickly recognized his great potential, as well as his weaknesses. She invited him to work at the Arlesheim clinic as her assistant, and encouraged and advised him in his medical work. This book includes the complete correspondence between König and Wegman