Friedensau Blog

“Kamusta Ka? – How are you?” asks my Filipino neighbor. Very well, but how do you say that in his language, Filipino, also known as Tagalog?
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Listening has multiple meanings. For me, listening has been a professional tool for decades - both as a musician and music therapist and as a professor who teaches, researches and is constantly learning.
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When I open the newspaper, I am horrified. I have the feeling that times are changing at breakneck speed: Existing, traditional values are not only being questioned, but seemingly abandoned without much inhibition.
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80 years ago – 1945 the zero hour in the Adventist Church in Germany? The end of the Second World War is perhaps the greatest turning point in German history of the 20th century. The signing of Germany's unconditional surrender in Reims ...
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Listening has multiple meanings. For me, listening has been a professional tool for decades - both as a musician and music therapist and as a professor who teaches, researches and is constantly learning.
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When Seventh-day Adventists had to deal with persecution and/or oppression in the past, this was mostly due to the observance of the Sabbath as a day of rest. Especially during the National Socialist era, the proximity to ‘Jewish’ views threatened...
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This is a line from Hermann Hesse's perhaps best-known poem “Steps”. I have often heard this poem quoted – and I am currently experiencing it in a very existential way, as I will be retiring in about a year's time. For more than 20 years ...
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Friedensau Community Meeting Day in North Rhine-Westphalia. This year, on 25 January 2025, it was once again ‘Friedensau on the road’. This time, North Rhine-Westphalia was the destination.
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It was 20 years ago in the summer of 2005 that one of the most interesting archives in Germany opened its doors to researchers: the ‘Arolsen Archives’ - the International Centre for Nazi Persecution.
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They are certainly imposing, the large brick buildings in the middle of the forest. They were built with a vision and messages that still visibly shape the character of the site today: "Arise and be light" is a reference to Isaiah 60:1.
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