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Newsletter from the Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech and Music Newsletter from the Section for the Arts of Eurythmy, Speech and Music Easter 2012 FOREWORD Dear Colleagues, What does the future want of us and what do we bring towards it as spiritual impulses? The verse “Stars once spoke to man”, which was given to Marie Steiner for Christmas 90 years ago, is as topical as it was then. The new art of euryth - my was born 100 years ago. Step by step it was developed through the people who were destined to bring to life this, Steiner’s “favourite spiritual child”. Marie Steiner took on the task fully to support this child through her art of speech. Where would eurythmy be without her input? Many are the basic indications and stimuli of Rudolf Stein - er for our arts. It is a great challenge to unlock these bases, in order to make them spiritually real to ourselves. But today we cannot avoid this work. “Spiritually real” means essential. Ultimately, we are dealing with essential meetings in our arts. This thought is deepened through the various contribu - tions in this issue of the Newsletter . It meets us more urgent - ly as a necessity of our time. Warm thanks to all our contrib - utors! Thanks too, to all those who have taken the initiative that eurythmy can take place in so many places and in various ways to celebrate 100 Years of Eurythmy. In joyful anticipation of all the events of this year! With warm greetings, Yours, www.srmk.goetheanum.org 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Topical Forum Speech-Formation and Acting at the Goetheanum Does eurythmy have a future? (Stephan Stockmar) . 4 (Margrethe Solstad) . 28 Marie Steiner’s Path to the Wholeness of the Word report on the conference “Network Artistic Speech” Articles (Ursula Ostermai) . 29 “Network Speech Formation” (Beate Krützkamp) . 30 The year 1911 in Rudolf Steiner’s Work and the Preparation Initiative-meeting Network Speech-Formation for Eurythmy (Johannes Greiner) . 4 (Sabine Eberleh) . 30 What concern speaks through Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on A Festival of the Word! Speech on the move! “Eurythmy as Visible Speech” regarding the being and (Claudia Abrecht Werner) . 31 effect of eurythmy? (Werner Barfod) . 7 Report on a speech-course with Michael Blume Thoughts on “The Night-Side of Eurythmy“ near Passau (Brigitta Beer) . 32 (Elisabeth Göbel) . 8 Mystery-Drama Ensemble Basel (Sighilt von Heynitz) . 33 Why should the eurythmical vowel “I” be mainly carried Music and inner paths (Wolfram Graf) . 34 out to the right side? (G.D. Gundersen) . 10 The Exercise “I think speech” (Martin-Ingbert Heigl) . 11 Rudolf Steiner on the lecture-course Obituaries “Eurythmy as Visible Speech” . 13 “In the technique”: Remarks on Steiner’s Report on Heinz Zimmermann (1937 - 2011) “Eurythmy as Visible Speech” (Alan Stott) . 14 (Agnes Zehnter) . 35 The speech-sound “CH” belonging to the Twins Remembering Maisie Jones (Annemarie Bäschlin) . 16 (Dawn Langman) . 35 The word “Hallelujah” in the public eurythmy perfor - mance 1919 in Zürich (Lili Reinitzer) . 16 Results of Eurythmical Research – out of Standing Events of the Section and Wondering (Daniel Marston) . 16 The Beginnings of Eurythmy (Sibylle Rudolph) . 17 Eurythmy, Music, Speech, Puppetry . 38 From mother-tongue to individualised language (Renate Pflästerer) . 18 Report on and memories of the Czech composer and Announcements anthroposophist Alois Hába (Michael Kurtz) . 19 Personal memories of Alois Hába (Jan Dostal) . 21 Eurythmy, Music, Speech . 39 Thoughts on the Section Days: Music 2012/13 (Christian Ginat and Michael Kurtz) . 22 “Following the masters” – Johann Nepomuk David Publications & Reviews as teacher (Lothar Reubke) . 23 Christa Slezak-Schindler. Die Kunst der Sprachgestaltung im Atemraum der Zeit . 47 Reports Two New Editions in English . 47 Living Rhythm: Vol. 6 of “Studien zur Menschenkunde Walking old ways afresh: Recollecting the beginnings des Eurythmieunterricht” by Rosemaria Bock of music eurythmy on the way to artistic freedom (Elisabeth Göbel) . 48 (Theresa Prüssen) . 24 Sibylle Rudolph. Zur Geschichte der Eurythmie: Rudolf A refreshing Music-Eurythmy Weekend with Steiner und die Architektur der frühen Unterrichts- Dorothea Mier in Witten (Heike Blome) . 24 räume (Rudolf Heymann) . 48 Eurythmy in Russia. Four-year Training Course “Unterwegs”, poems by Ruth Dubach in St Petersburg (Martin Barkhoff) . 25 (Wilfried Hammacher) . 49 Fascinating Programme at the Eurythmeum Stuttgart (Volker Frankfurt) . 25 “Water Islands“ – livingly vital, humorous and Miscellaneous very entertaining (Nicole Hofmann) . 26 “The human being as bridge” (Matthias Mochner) . 26 Developing the Future. 100 Years of Eurythmy . 50 In all beginnings some magic is contained Letter to the Editor (Alan Stott) . 50 (Leonore Welzin) . 27 Erratum . 51 “Light is the first impression that came towards me”: Reflections on the first eurythmy laboratory (Hans Wagenmann) . 27 4 TOPICAL FORUM Does eurythmy have a future? Theme issue of the Journal DIE DREI Stephan Stockmar “Even Rudolf Steiner could not know how a formed move - ment of spiritual language envisioned by him would appear in an actual human body.” – 100 years ago the just 19-year- old Lory Smits from Westfalia, who full of joy for movement and looking for a profession, gave Rudolf Steiner the oppor - tunity to develop eurythmy as an art of movement. With this background Ute Hallaschka describes in the March edition of the Journal DIE DREI , the biography of the always endan - gered being of Eurythmy, which expresses itself through the human being in movement. And, vice versa, eurythmy can become a form of expression for the human being. In this issue, the theme is not concerned with a survey of achievements – despite eurythmy having achieved academ - ic status with the corresponding professorial personnel, it looks rather modest in this respect –, but we are rather con - cerned with still topical question after 100 years: How will eurythmy develop? Our authors each in their own manner attempt to find a “place” for eurythmy in space and time. Whereas Hallaschka follows the deep human yearning to see speech, Klaus J. Bracker researches how eurythmy brings space itself into movement and thus metamorphoses it, so that eurythmy raises the performer as well as the audience into the dimension of “counter-space” and through this into the supersensory human realm. Sibylle Rudolph is con - It is a happy coincidence, that in this issue the series on the cerned with rooms and their moods in which eurythmy is worlds of the twelve senses by Dietrich Rapp and Hans- practised; through this hitherto unacknowledged aspect she Christian Zehnter has arrived at the sense of movement. glances into the time of its inception. Finally, Wolfgang Individual copies can be ordered and subscriptions Kilthau portrays the work of Tanja Baumgartner , who placed: mercurial Publikations GmbH, Alt-Niederursel 45, “treats” plants with eurythmy and through this achieves 60439 Frankfurt, Tel. +49 69 95 77 61 22, Fax 58 23 58, ver - direct results in the realm of the living. [email protected]; www.dieDrei.org. ARTICLES The year 1911 in Rudolf Steiner’s Work spoken at other times of the year, what is spoken in the days and the Preparation for Eurythmy between the 13 Holy Nights connects in a different, deeper manner with the passing and the coming year. The lectures Johannes Greiner of Christmas season 1910/11 carry the title “Occult History” (GA 126). Here Steiner shows how historic impulses are car - What marks the year 1911 in Rudolf Steiner’s activities? ried by certain personalities in such a way that they connect What themes and impulses influence that year 100 years ago, in subsequent incarnations to the earlier work. Through the which led to the birth of eurythmy? Broadly summarising, background of reincarnation, history was made under - one could express the motto of 1911 “from Michael to Chris - standable as never before. tian Rosenkreutz – and in the middle, Christ as the teacher Whoever is familiar with the destiny-laden karma-lectures of humankind as the spirit of the “I” and saviour of the phys - of 1924 will notice in “Occult History” that many of the per - ical body”. sonalities already appear who are described in the karma- lectures. The Christmas lecture-cycle appears like a seed for “Occult History” the great tree of the karma-lectures. Looking back from the Special weight has always been given to the choice of karma-lectures of 1924, the motif is revealed that belongs to theme for the Christmas conferences. Compared to what is the choice of the personalities mentioned. Those human ARTICLES 5 beings are discussed who realise the impulse of the was led from Michael to Christ. That which in “Occult His - Archangel Michael in history. The connection to Michael is tory” is described more externally and emphasising the what connects the most important personalities mentioned development of thinking, is presented in “Spiritual Guid - in “Occult History”. This lecture-cycle, which is much too lit - ance” out of a completely inner point of view that also tle acknowledged, is in truth a Michael-cycle, held by Stein - includes human corporeality. er from 28 Dec. 1910 to 1 Jan. 1911. He ended on the first day of 1911. The Second Mystery-Drama In the summer of 1911 the writing, rehearsing and per - “Anthroposophy, a Fragment”, forming of the second mystery drama “The Soul’s Proba - “Occult Physiology” and the Bologna-lecture tion” (GA 14) took place. The tremendous work of the Mys - The work on “Anthroposophy – a Fragment” (GA 45) also tery Dramas would not have been possible without the links the years 1910 and 1912. Steiner has already worked on strongly carried speech-impulse of Marie Steiner. In the first these essays during 1910, continuing into 1911. In this writ - mystery drama, earlier incarnations were already men - ten work, Steiner attempted to present a doctrine of the tioned, yet in the second mystery drama reincarnation- senses that rests completely on the “I”.
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