The Karl König Institute
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The Karl König Institute for Art, Science and Social Life
The Institute is a non-profit organisation that provides the material, financial and idealistic support for the Karl König legacy, particularly via the Archive, books and other publications, related research, as well as various events, activities and initiatives that are organised or collaboratively staged around the world.
What’s happening around the network
NEWS AND EVENTS
The new volume of poetry
Books in conversation. Reading from the new collection of poetry 'Wanderer'
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Der behauste Mensch
Kurt E. Becker reflects on how people are housed in 77 'conversations' with personalities from cultural history.
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The Evolutionary Role of Art for a Human Future
Reinhold Fäth describes the dangers and the potential healing that images can have for human development - for the future of humanity!
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The Twelve Senses: Sensing justice in the encounter
Online Conference. Start: August 11 - End August 15
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"Und bin ich in den Sinneshöhen...." Die Zwölfheit der Sinne in der heutigen Zeit
Saturday, 26.06.2021 at 19:00,
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FEATURED BOOKS
Der behauste Mensch
Von vier Wänden und einem Dach über dem Kopf (only in German Language available)
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The Spirit of Camphill
How did the impulse of Dr. Karl König and his young friends as exiles from Nazi Europe grow to become a world-wide movement?
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Kurt Becker: Minderheiten in Deutschland: Assimiliert? Integriert? Diskriminiert? (Only in German)
The Holocaust throws its dark, long shadow into the German present. The relationship of Germans to their minorities, whether we like it or not, remains burdened by Nazi atrocities throughout the ages.
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An insight into the ideas of Karl König
LEADING THOUGHTS
We need to join together again in communities, but such communities that are not governed by bonds of heritage, race or religious denomination, but by spiritual principles that incite us to strive together and work for each other. Read More
There a mood can be set where adults and children can live in unison; important and not so important people, able and not so able but nonetheless in reciprocal appreciation of the dignity of the individual. Read More
Only when a new style of community is formed in this way will it become possible for children and young people to reach an expression of their true being out of which their individual contribution can ensue. Read More