Kassel, Germany. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death. How does he live on in others? Christoph Quadflieg, therapeutic educator, choir director, singing teacher and singer from Germany, gives his answers.
Which sentence by Rudolf Steiner has particularly touched you and why?
For some time now, I have been inspired by Jürgen Schreiter’s statement that Rudolf Steiner said at the end of his life: “If I could start again, I would turn the rudder 180 degrees and put art at the center.” Here I encounter Rudolf Steiner very closely—I experience his warm concern to be able to live meaningfully and purposefully in our crazy world according to our ability, alongside the search for knowledge. In this way, he shows me how to serve anthroposophy with dedication.
How do people around you recognize that you are interested in Rudolf Steiner?
At Sing’in, my little place at Kassel main station, people can sing. Over the last few months, 600 people have not just played anthroposophical music here, they have listened and sung for a moment. My tender acquaintance with anthroposophy, this wisdom of the human being, often brings a breadth to the singers’ sound that they were previously unaware of.
Where did anthroposophy irritate you?
It irritates me when people give me quotes from anthroposophy and point a finger at me, yet I don’t even know if I even had a question. But anthroposophy itself can’t be blamed for that.
How has anthroposophy changed your life?
It helps me experience the beauty of things, processes, problems, and questions in my heart and mind every day—it really is lovable.
Contact quadfliegc@t-online.de
Translation Charles Cross
Image Christoph Quadflieg, Photo: Gabriele Wolf
