Free Spiritual Life & Urachhaus publishing house

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The Verlag Freies Geistesleben & Urachhaus GmbH consists of two anthroposophical publishers based in Stuttgart , the Verlag Freies Geistesleben and the Urachhaus Verlag. The two publishers merged in the mid-1990s; however, both programs are run independently.

The publishers publish books on anthroposophy, Waldorf education , contemporary and life issues, social sciences , culture and history, Christianity , art and architecture, medicine and curative education , natural sciences and agriculture, music, as well as books for children and young people and various magazines . The area of advice and books on vegetarian nutrition has been growing steadily in recent years.

Free Spiritual Life Publishing House

The Freie Geistesleben publishing house was founded in 1947 by the Free Waldorf School in Stuttgart and the Anthroposophical Society in Stuttgart. The aim was to publish the necessary literature for the newly established and newly founded Waldorf Schools in Germany. In addition, the foundations and other fruits of anthroposophy became the subject of publishing activities. The managing director has been Jean-Claude Lin since 1991. Authors include Michael Birnthaler , Michael Bockemühl , Walther Bühler , Karl-Martin Dietz , Tonke Dragt , Esmé Lammers , Cynthia Harnett , Marit Laurin , Bernard Lievegoed , Christa Ludwig , Lorenzo Ravagli , Wilhelm Rath , Wolfgang Schad , Susanne Schäfer , Edda Singrün- Zorn , Jakob Streit and Brian Wildsmith .

Urachhaus publishing house

The Urachhaus publishing house was founded on January 23, 1925 by Gertrud Spörri , Emil Bock and Ernst Scheiffele as the publishing house of the Christengemeinschaft GmbH. The publisher initially only published Christian-oriented writings. The Anthroposophical Society was banned in 1935 , and in 1936 the publishing house was renamed to Stuttgart Urachstrasse, where the publishing house was located. In 1942 the publishing house was forcibly liquidated after the Gestapo stormed the publishing house on June 9, 1941 and confiscated the company's property, including the entire book inventory. The publishing house was re-established in 1946 and moved to the rebuilt house in Urachstrasse 41 in 1950.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the publishing house expanded through a new conception to more and more different areas of life and reached a wider public. In 1971 the publisher brought out a Christian Morgenstern commemorative edition and in the 1980s published, among other things, a nine-volume complete edition of Christian Morgenstern's works and letters .

After the merger in the mid-1990s, the two publishers moved into their new domicile in Landhausstrasse, not far from Urachstrasse. From 1996 to 2014 Frank Berger managed the publishing house and expanded the program again. In February 2015 Michael Stehle, who had been working in the editing department since 2000, took over the management of the publishing house.

Authors include Thea Beckman , Friedrich Benesch , Paul Biegel , Daniela Drescher , Rudolf Meyer , Christian Morgenstern and Friedrich Rittelmeyer .

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  1. ↑ a b Literature on questions of life , taz on the weekend, April 7, 2007
  2. ↑ Christian Community , Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions
  3. ^ “The” Goetheanum: Weekly for Anthroposophy and Threefolding, Volume 79, General Anthroposophical Society , 2000, p. 88 [1]
  4. ↑ a b 90 Years Urachhaus , Book Market , January 23, 2015
  5. ↑ KRITIK IN BRIEF , Die Zeit , October 8, 1971
  6. ↑ Jochen Schimmang : Christian Morgenstern: A Biography, Residenz Verlag , 2013 [2]
  7. ↑ For health reasons: Publisher Frank Berger stops working at Urachhaus , Börsenblatt , October 28, 2014
  8. ^ New publishing director at Urachhaus , Börsenblatt , February 24, 2015
  9. ↑ "The Gardens of Dorr" by Paul Biegel: Do you only meet the magic word , FAZ , May 5, 2014