Christmas Plays from Oberufer

Christmas Plays from Oberufer
Title Christmas Plays from Oberufer PDF eBook
Author Hélène Jacquet
Publisher Rudolf Steiner Press
Pages 136
Release 2007
Genre Drama
ISBN 1855841843

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For hundreds of years, ordinary people in the small Austrian village of Oberufer on the Danube gathered in the local tavern at Christmastime to perform these plays for their neighbors. With their roots lost in medieval times, the plays gradually evolved to incorporate a unique blend of folk humor and profound reverence in their celebration of the birth of Jesus. The Paradise Play, acting as a preface, presents the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, but with the promise of future salvation through Christ. The Shepherds Play portrays the birth of Jesus in a stable, where he is sought out by a group of shepherds. The Kings Play depicts the visit of three wise kings to the birthplace of the King of Humanity, as well as the murderous attempts by Herod to thwart Jesus' mission. This revised edition of the plays--suitable for both amateur and professional players--offers a clear layout of the texts, greatly elaborated makeup and director's indications, stage and lighting directions, and detailed costume designs. Includes eight pages of color illustrations.

Christmas Plays by Oberufer:

Christmas Plays by Oberufer:
Title Christmas Plays by Oberufer: PDF eBook
Author Rudolf Steiner
Publisher Rudolf Steiner Press
Pages 136
Release 2013-09-24
Genre Religion
ISBN 1855844230

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For hundreds of years ordinary folk in the small Austrian village of Oberufer on the Danube gathered in the local tavern at Christmas time to perform these plays to their neighbours. With their roots lost in medieval times, the plays gradually evolved to incorporate a unique mixture of broad peasant humour and deep reverence in their celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus. The Paradise Play serves as a Preface, presenting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, but with the promise of future salvation through Christ. The Shepherds Play follows with its portrayal of the birth of Jesus in a stable where he is sought out by a group of simple shepherds. The Kings Play, the final in the trilogy, depicts the visit of three wise Kings to the birthplace of the 'King of Humanity', and the murderous measures taken by Herod to try and thwart Jesus's mission. This revised edition of the plays - eminently suitable for amateur and professional companies alike - offers a clear layout of the texts, greatly elaborated director's and make-up indications, stage and lighting directions, and detailed costume designs illustrated in colour.

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Title Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections PDF eBook
Author Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Pages 834
Release 2011-08-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 081087721X

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Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.

A Miracle for Our Time

A Miracle for Our Time
Title A Miracle for Our Time PDF eBook
Author Lona Truding
Publisher Temple Lodge Publishing
Pages 100
Release 1994
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780904693225

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Inspired by the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Lona Truding presents a mature study of esoteric Christian philosophy. She begins with the primordial Garden of Eden and then examines the missions of Christian Rosenkreutz, Mani, Joan of Arc, St. Paul, St. Francis, and Raphael. She then contemplates the mysterious acts of healing performed by Christ, as described in the Gospels. She ends with an examination of the Christian core of Steiner's Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path).

Rudolf Steiner's Vision of Love

Rudolf Steiner's Vision of Love
Title Rudolf Steiner's Vision of Love PDF eBook
Author Bernard Nesfield-Cookson
Publisher Rudolf Steiner Press
Pages 354
Release 2011-03-14
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 1855842580

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"Gathering together references to the 'logic of the heart' from throughout Steiner's work, the author encapsulates the great teacher's revelations on the meaning of love, and indicates the supreme importance of the greatest of all deeds of love"--Cover.

THE TRIUMPH OF SPIRIT

THE TRIUMPH OF SPIRIT
Title THE TRIUMPH OF SPIRIT PDF eBook
Author Angelika Dorothea Albrecht
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 110
Release 2023-10-23
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 3753494801

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This book selectively describes the events around Anthroposophy in the early years of the 20th century and the lives of that young people from all over the world who mentally and physically committed themselves to this spiritual science. Beginning with Anthroposophy's spiritus rector Rudolf Steiner, continuing with the establishment of the Anthroposophical Society, going on with the erection of the extraordinary first Goetheanum building as of 1913 and its destruction by fire 1922/23. It ends with Rudolf Steiner's sudden death in 1925, the erection of the second Goetheanum building and the impacts and benefits Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy has until today in many fields of life and institutions as schools, hospitals, biodynamic agriculture, eurythmy, architecture, medicine, stage performance and others.

Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses

Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses
Title Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses PDF eBook
Author Rudolf Steiner
Publisher SteinerBooks
Pages 778
Release 2016-06-01
Genre Art
ISBN 1621480763

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13 slide presentations, Dornach, Oct. 8, 1916 - Oct. 29, 1917 (CW 292) "I am going to show you a series of reproductions, of slides, from a period in art history to which the human mind will probably always return to contemplate and consider; for, if we consider history as a reflection of inner spiritual impulses, it is precisely in this evolutionary moment that we see certain human circumstances, ones that are among the deepest and most decisive for the outer course of human history, expressed through a relationship to art." --Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner understood that the history of art is a field in which the evolution of consciousness is symptomatically and transparently revealed. This informal sequence of thirteen lectures was given during the darkest hours of World War I. It was a moment when the negative consequences of what he called the age of the consciousness soul, which began around 1417, were made most terribly apparent. In these lectures he sought to provide an antidote to pessimism. After describing the movement of consciousness from Greece into Rome, coupled with influences from the Orthodox East, he showed how these influences transformed as the Middle Ages became the Renaissance. The process that begins with Cimabue and Giotto develops, deepens, and becomes more conscious in the great Renaissance masters Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Then this movement continues with the Northern masters, Dürer and Holbein, as well as the German tradition. One entire lecture is devoted to Rembrandt, followed by one on Dutch and Flemish paintings. Themes are woven together to show how past epochs of consciousness and art live again in our consciousness-soul period. Replete with interesting information and more than 600 color and black-and-white images, these lectures are rich and dense with ideas, enabling us to understand both the art of the Renaissance and the transformation of consciousness it announced. These lectures demonstrate (to paraphrase Shelley) that artists truly are the unacknowledged legislators of the age. Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses is a translation from German of Kunstgeschichte als Abbild innerer geistiger Impulse (GA 292, Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2000).