The General Anthroposophical Section's series of lectures on «Hebrew Humanism» shed light on another outstanding German spiritual figure at the beginning of the 20th century with lectures on Gustav Landauer.

The Jewish writer, linguist, social revolutionary and pacifist Gustav Landauer, a friend of Martin Buber, was one of Germany's most outstanding intellectual figures at the beginning of the 20th century. Not only his ideas and intentions, but also his concrete initiatives for the reformation of society – from the transformative power of the developing individual and in a state-free, self-designing form through small communities – are of extraordinary actuality and touch on Rudolf Steiner's contemporaneous activities in many ways.

These two contributions deal with the signature of Landauer's being and work – as well as his sympathy for the fate of the Spanish anarchist and reform pedagogue Francisco Ferrer, the founder of the «Escuela Moderna», who was executed in 1909. Similar to Ferrer, Landauer was also convinced that education forms the basis for the social change that can meet the needs of the «becoming human being». Landauer pursued initiatives for social renewal worldwide. He was murdered by right-wing nationalist Freikorps soldiers in Munich in May 1919.

Here is the video  from 23 May with the following presentations:

• «Gustav Landauer, the Social Revolutionary»: Peter Selg
• From 1 hr. 12 min.: «The Question of Education as a Social Question: Becoming Human Being»: Constanza Kaliks