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Program 100 Years of Steiner/ Waldorf Education TempodromTempodrom Berlin Berlin // // September, 19. September 19 2019 2019 Morning Verse I look out into the world Wherein there shines the Sun Where glimmer all the stars, Where lie the silent stones The plants that live and grow The beasts that feel and move Where man in soul creates A dwelling for the spirit. I look inward to the soul That lives within my being The spirit of God is weaving In sunlight and in soul-life In heights of world without In depths of soul within. Spirit of God to thee I turn myself in seeking That strength and grace and skill For learning and for work May live and grow in me. Rudolf Steiner 1 Greetings from Joachim Gauck 100 Years of Waldorf Schools – Free, Creative and because of the restrained use of media in the first years Responsible of schooling. If you look back on a century of Waldorf schools, a lot In an increasingly digital world, in which our democratic comes to mind, but rarely that the schools that translate coexistence is also steadily changing, free thinking and Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical world view into reality the willingness to assume responsibility are vitally were founded by a cigarette manufacturer. In September important skills. If only "Likes" count, if facts and even 1919, Emil Molt, director of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette the truth are questioned or undermined by populists of factory, asked Rudolf Steiner to provide educational all kinds, then we need the ability to resist, the strength support in a school for the children of the workers to question and the courage to contradict – just as employed by him. This Astoria school from Stuttgart is Waldorf schools worldwide teach their pupils. the model for all later Waldorf schools. Your pedagogical concept stands for the diversity and Shortly before the end of the First World War, a type of unifying aspects of cultures, for the ideals of freedom school was created that looked at people with their and equal dignity. individual abilities. Gaining knowledge by strengthening I wish you all the best for your anniversary. Contents one's own personality. Not loyal subjects of established authorities but self-responsible citizens we need. Greetings .......................................................................................... page 3 Self-confident and empathic people should shape the Program – Overview Central Arena ............................... page 8–11 departure into a democratic future. Maps .................................................................................................... page 12 Already by in 1935 the Anthroposophical Society was Program – Overview and Open Market ...................... page 14–16 banned. The National Socialists gradually closed all Food and Beverages ................................................................. page 17 Waldorf schools. The free formation of will, the educa- Waldorf 100 Pictures from Around the World ...... page 18–19 tion to a free, independent personality does not fit in principle with the human image of dictatorships. And so Speakers and Participants ................................................... page 20–25 President of the Federal Republic there was no Waldorf education in the GDR either. It Contributors .................................................................................... page 26 of Germany from 2012–2017 was only after the so-called peaceful revolution, shortly before German reunification, that the Freie Schule am Zernsee in the former East German city of Werder opened its doors on September 1, 1990. Today there are around 1,200 Waldorf schools and 2,000 Waldorf kindergartens in more than 80 countries – in townships in South Africa and favelas in Brazil to Silicon Valley. Interestingly enough, numerous managers of IT companies send their children to a Waldorf school 2 3 Greetings from Henning Kullak-Ublick Dear friends and visitors of the International Waldorf who work for a humane world in completely different of the state to provide all children with access to On behalf of the International Conference and the Board 100 Festival, contexts than the Waldorf world. education, but the local stakeholders are responsible for of Waldorf 100 I would like to thank the many people the content and methods used, which presupposes a and groups without whom Waldorf 100 and this festival It is with great pleasure that we welcome you today to • The involvement of all pupils from the 1,200 Waldorf free education system anchored in civil society. We need could not have happend. You have at your place, with the Berlin Tempodrom to celebrate the dawn of a new schools worldwide and the practical implementation of schools in which children can experience themselves as your potential, with your heart and soul let Waldorf 100 century of Waldorf education with you and all those new educational. The projects “Postcard Exchange”, doers, as sentient human beings, and thinkers who thus become a global celebration of courage and new around the world who are with us today in their thoughts “Bees&Trees” and the “Relay Race” are wonderful discover their own maturity. For this they need teachers beginnings. For this we wish to send you the heartfelt and hearts. We offer you a colorful program embracing examples of how much imagination and commitment who want something, who are empathic and creative greeting from our Hamburg Waldorf 100 team: thank you many age groups and cultures, happiness and solemnity, the schoolchildren have put into these efforts. and who dare to think for themselves. Rudolf Steiner has all, and keep the energy high! amazement and reflection, singing and hearing, move- The response from schools around the world has given us a wealth of suggestions on how this can be ment and waiting, art and politics, past and future. We overwhelmed us. We have long since lost count of the lived in everyday school life. He didn't set up a system. recognize the seriousness of the times, but also the joy countless initiatives, conferences and congresses, That is why it is up to us to throw our hearts ahead and I wish you all a wonderful day in our fountain of youth of being and becoming in one another’s spiritual artistic and ecological actions, political talks, scientific reinvent the Waldorf School time and again, with our and all the courage, inspiring ideas and creative joy that presence! congresses, school festivals and much more that has children, with our parents, in response to our times. you and our children need for the future that starts When Waldorf 100 was born almost exactly five years happened and continues to happen in the name of today! All this is the soundboard for today’s festival in the ago as an idea, we didn’t know what the world would Waldorf 100. Thus, our greatest wish has been fulfilled: Tempodrom. The program is divided into three large look like five years later, only that it would indeed be that this not be a centrally controlled event from above, sections: “See the World” in the morning belongs to quite different from autumn 2014; change was already in but the joint initiative of all those who want to write the the children of the lower and middle grades, followed the air. At that time, the International Forum for Steiner/ next chapter in the book of Waldorf Education. by the afternoon’s “Love the World” with trend-set- Waldorf Education (Hague Circle) met in Israel, in a That’s what our times demand. More than half of all ting ideas, thoughts and initiatives, and finally the Sincerely yours, region of conflict. It was there that the concept of a children in the world today grow up in cities, i.e. in evening section “Change the World” by those who global celebration was born. The idea was to look beyond environments that are man-made and populated by will soon transform the world themselves: our upper our own horizons and seek encounters with other machines. Digitalization is progressing at breathtaking school students. In the afternoon there are also cultures, with other schools and kindergartens, with speed, and with it the question of the image of the parallel events in the small arena and various pavili- other historical, social, geographical, political and social Henning Kullak-Ublick human being that underlies every form of education, ons. Take advantage of the culinary offer of the food living conditions; in short, we sought to discover every pedagogical idea, every type of school, whether the trucks as well as the Dome of Youth, the international together what the time we live in really needs – and then actors are aware of it or not, is becoming more and more school movement and other friends for conversations, go ahead and get it! We agreed that three pillars should existential. “Nature” alone, at whose expense we have new encounters, or simply for relaxing or resting and become the supporting elements of the Jubilee Year: been living far too long, can no longer do the job without finding a quiet space for your own ideas. • The deepening and expansion of basic educational our cooperation. It is we humans ourselves who must work and research within the individual school create an environment for children in which they can faculties and at conferences and congresses. discover and develop their humanity freely and unhinde- red. • In-depth encounter and cooperation with children, parents, and colleagues across national and other Education and schooling are a top priority for civil borders, with the public and with people and initiatives society, for which we all bear responsibility. It is the task 4 5 Greetings from Claus-Peter Röh Greetings from Ellen Niemann Wind under the wings – or the art of growing beyond Confidence in a person’s power of initiative and transfor- “Rudolf Steiner’s educational approach is a general issue better understanding and trust can grow, ultimately oneself mation is at the same time the core principle of Waldorf of humanity.