Rolf Speckner

Rolf Leonhard Speckner (born October 8, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German writer and lecturer at anthroposophical institutions.

Live and act

Rolf Speckner entered the Anthroposophical Society in 1967 through an encounter with the philosopher Hans Börnsen . After studying physics , mathematics and philosophy from 1969 to 1977, Speckner began to work with the early historian Walther Matthes (1901-1997), with whom he researched the Externsteine . In 1983 he became a member of the branch management at the Rudolf Steiner House in Hamburg and has since been involved in tasks within the Anthroposophical Society in Germany. He was one of the "co-founders of the seminar for anthroposophy".

Speckner publishes the posthumous works of the philosopher Hans Börnsen. He is also a lecturer at the Hamburg Art Academy and employee of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls. As an author, Rolf Speckner also contributes to various magazines in the German-speaking area, including Das Goetheanum , the Swiss magazine Gegenwart and the German magazine Der Kreis .

From an anthroposophical point of view, Speckner made contributions to various topics of European history, for example researching the Knights Templar , and supported Walther Matthes in his research on Corvey .

Publications

Monographs

with Walther Matthes: The relief on the external stones. A Carolingian relief and its spiritual background . Ostfildern before Stuttgart: Edition Tertium 1997 ( ISBN 3-930717-32-8 )
The secret of the Externsteine. Images of a mystery site . Stuttgart: Urachhaus 2002 ( ISBN 3-8251-7402-6 )
On the history of the Anthroposophical Society in Bremen 1905-1923 . Presented on the branch's birthday on February 25, 2006
Christian Rosenkreutz and Rudolf Steiner . Basel: Sentovision 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-03-752034-5 )
From the philosophy of freedom to occult science in outline . Basel: Sentovision 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-03752-064-2 )

Editorships

Cosmos Runge - the night side of things: Philipp Otto Runge's longing for new horizons and the present. Contributions to a spiritual understanding of Philipp Otto Runge on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death . Borchen: Möllmann Verlag 2001 ( ISBN 978-3-89979-151-8 )
Hans Börnsen: Leibniz concept of substance and Goethe's thought of metamorphosis (1983)
Hans Börnsen: The prophecy of the Edda: Myth and science. Collected lectures, essays and translations . Dornach: Philosophical-Anthroposophical Publishing House at the Goetheanum 1989 ( ISBN 3-7235-0461-2 )

Web links

Literature by and about Rolf Speckner in the catalog of the German National Library
Homepage Rolf Speckner

Remarks

↑ Biographical information is provided according to Der Kreis No. 271 (May 2014), p. 51 and biography Rolf Leonhard Speckner ( memento of the original from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Lecturers at the Hamburg Art Academy
^ Rolf Speckner: Biography of Walther Matthes at the Kulturimpuls research center (with glossing over its work during the Nazi era).
↑ z. B. From doctrinal discussion in the context of the mysteries on the basis of mystery poetry. Dante, Virgil and the Michael School . In: The Goetheanum. Weekly for anthroposophy . No. 39. September 24, 2000.
↑ The original impulses of the Templars according to Rudolf Steiner . In: Present No. 2 (2007).
↑ Initiation from the perspective of an anthroposophist . In: Der Kreis No. 271 (2014), pp. 50–59.
↑ See Gil McHattie: The Knights Templar: Influences from the Past and Impulses for the Future . Forest Row 2011 ( ISBN 9781906999261 ), pp. 72-87.
↑ See Walther Matthes: Corvey and the Externsteine. Fate of a pre-Christian shrine in Carolingian times . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87838-369-X , p. 12.

personal data
SURNAME	Speckner, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Speckner, Rolf Leonhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and lecturer at anthroposophical institutions
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Biographical information is provided according to Der Kreis No. 271 (May 2014), p. 51 and biography Rolf Leonhard Speckner ( memento of the original from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Lecturers at the Hamburg Art Academy

[3] Rolf Speckner: Biography of Walther Matthes at the Kulturimpuls research center (with glossing over its work during the Nazi era).

[4] z. B. From doctrinal discussion in the context of the mysteries on the basis of mystery poetry. Dante, Virgil and the Michael School . In: The Goetheanum. Weekly for anthroposophy . No. 39. September 24, 2000.

[5] The original impulses of the Templars according to Rudolf Steiner . In: Present No. 2 (2007).

[6] Initiation from the perspective of an anthroposophist . In: Der Kreis No. 271 (2014), pp. 50–59.

[7] See Gil McHattie: The Knights Templar: Influences from the Past and Impulses for the Future . Forest Row 2011 ( ISBN 9781906999261 ), pp. 72-87.

[8] See Walther Matthes: Corvey and the Externsteine. Fate of a pre-Christian shrine in Carolingian times . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87838-369-X , p. 12.