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29. Aug 2025 / Campus Living
Prof. Pöhler meets world-renowned conductor and supporter of FAU

During a visit to the Swedish city of Gothenburg in August 2025, Prof. Rolf Pöhler took the opportunity to meet Prof. Herbert Blomstedt, a long-time supporter of Friedensau Adventist University and the Friends of Friedensau International Association,
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22. Jul 2025 / Campus Living
Book Presentation Prof. Dixon Chibanda

For the second time, we welcomed Prof. Dixon Chibanda, founder and CEO of the internationally operating non-governmental organization (NGO) “Friendship Bench” to the campus of Friedensau Adventist University in Friedensau/Saxony-Anhalt.
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08. Jul 2025 / Campus Living
From an idea and a Canadian covered wagon to a living tradition

In 2014, the Friedensau campsite working group was given a special opportunity: a week-long trip to the USA – with the aim of getting to know campsite models and so-called ‘summer camps’. This was an intensive, inspiring week full of new impressions,
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08. Jul 2025 / Campus Living
Mourning for Prof. Dr Petra Jürgens

On 24 June 2025, the family, colleagues, fellow music therapists, members of the university and friends bid farewell to Petra Jürgens in a moving funeral service. A few statements are reproduced here:
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07. Jul 2025 / Campus Living
“125 years of Friedensau. A chronicle” by Johannes Hartlapp

A comprehensive chronicle of Friedensau has been published and can now be ordered!
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28. May 2025 / Campus Living
“Kamusta Ka? – How are you?” asks my Filipino neighbor.

“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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16. Apr 2025 / Campus Living
Living connected

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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16. Apr 2025 / Campus Living
Friedensau on the road in NRW

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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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living
Looking back – and yet looking forward

The anniversary year 2024 has come to an end and the special events celebrating 125 years of Friedensau have come to an end. This prompts us to take a brief look back at the past year and highlight some of the milestones in our history – to take ...
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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living
Monument! What shapes us, what we want, what we are grateful for

I am looking forward to the publication of our new chronicle! It will be a document that not only documents historical data, stories and pictures, but also bears witness to how Friedensau's history is being told now – in 2024.
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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living
The “Chronicle” of Friedensau will be published

The village of Friedensau in Jerichower Land has only existed for 125 years. Not a long time for a place. Building on the older documents, Friedensau church historian Dr. Johannes Hartlapp wrote ...
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27. Jan 2025 / Campus Living
Friedensau Chronicle – the history in pictures

The history of Friedensau is well documented. It began with the many articles published by Ludwig Richard Conradi at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in the then community magazine "Zionswächter".
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