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Dear Friends,
now Christmas is nearly here and our winter Newsletter is ready
for you. You will notice that there is a lot that is new! The volume
"At the Threshold of the Modern Age - Biographies around 1861"
is really in the bookshops already, although I had doubted it for
some time - it was meant as a different sort of contribution to
the 150th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's birth, so we had hoped
to get it out now for Christmas. It is very much thanks to the not
only superb but super-quick translations by Simon Blaxland de Lange
that this was possible. I feel it is a very special book and I'm
sure that you will all find it wonderful reading. There is still
time to give it to all your friends for Christmas!
I'm sure you have all seen that there is a lot new on our website
too - have you been to the "Reading Room" yet? For Christmas
there will be new material there so be quick if you haven't been
yet! You don't know the way? You can't miss it.
There is also a lot of information on the new Karl König Institute
website although we started with German and haven't got so much
into English yet. I'm sure you'll have fun looking for it! And anyway
you can practice your Chinese and Japanese on the way there. We
have a suprising number of visitors from Asia on the website now
- including many from China by the way.
On the page "Events" you can begin to look into the future,
because there you will find the dates of more exhibitions of Karl
König's Soul Calendar work - starting at Beitenwil, then Stuttgart,
where Karl König spoke exactly 50 years previously in the huge
concert hall there. Then the pictures slowly wind their way home
to Aberdeen, where they will greet the opening of the hall in Newton
Dee at Whitsun before finding a new space in Camphill Estate......
you will hopefully be hearing more about that soon, but remember
- when I fetched them in 2008 they fitted into a thin folder and
into my suitcase on Ryanair. Now they are expertly sealed into their
(65!) beautifull wooden frames designed by Reinhold Fäth and
made in Camphill Hauteroda - and fill my car completely, without
leaving space for a passenger. That does pose us with a challenge
or two!
Then I have to mention that the team for the archive work is growing
strongly and many helpers are tackling specialist areas. for instance
Winfried Altmann, who has worked in marketing and advertising for
publishers in Stuttgart and Dornach has now offered to do design
work for us and has already created a new flyer, so you will be
meeting his work soon. And Alan Thewless, teacher in Beaver Run
and knowledgable with the stars, is assisting with Karl König's
horoscopes. You will also be tasting this work soon (is as yet secret).
The "Friends Association" is also begining to move and
develop but we will have to see how we can make this into a vessel
for support - also financially, because without this support we
will not get the tasks done that need doing. At the moment this
Association is solely active in German speaking countries, which
was necessary because the communities and charity organisations
there do not have possibilities to transfer money for use in the
Archive for instance. So we are counting strongly with the support
through individuals there. I'm sure it would be good to involve
more individuals elsewhere though and would appreciate some help
to get this moving in other countries......individuals and also
corporate entities can become members. In actual fact this Newsletter
was designed as an organ of communication for the Friends Association.
Are you a friend with a small "f" or a large one? That
leads us to the theme of the annual general meeting for both organisations
- for the Friends Association and for the Karl König Institute.
We are calling both together for Michaelmas in Berlin:
It is the 200th birthday of Kaspar Hauser, which we will celebrate
here with a conference on September 29th and 30th. We will also
have the wonderful paintings by Greg Tricker here with the title
"The Holy Fool and the Path of Sacrifice".
They will also be shown at Kaspar Hauser events in October at the
Christian Community in Karlsruhe and in November at the Center for
Anthroposophy in Kassel. But apart from this we are already well
on the way with the preparation for a volume of the Karl König
Edition about Kaspar Hauser! This I can promise you, will be a very
special volume.
There are some pactical changes with bank accounts moving to socially
and ecologically friendly banking (an important step these days!)
- the German accounts being above in this letter, the details for
other countries are posted on the website. It is important to us
that we now have our own charitable status for the Karl König
Institute so that it can be the legal and financial roof for the
Archive work.
So now I wish you happy reading with the Newsletter and happy Christmas!
I hope you will all have a wonderful and stimulating New Year and
look forward to plenty of interaction making Archive work not only
history retaining but particularly future bearing!
Richard.
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