Theodor Heuss visits the ars viva exhibition at the 1958 annual conference of the Kulturkreis.
Speeches from the Kulturkreis’s Founding Years
Here you will find historic speeches from the Kulturkreis's past. On Thursday evening, as part of the 75th Annual Conference, the speeches by Theodor Heuss, Jürgen Ponto, Otto Maurer and Walter Scheel will be presented in the form of a spoken-word collage performed by actors and actresses from the Berliner Ensemble. José Ortega y Gasset's speech is part of Friday's programme.
European Culture and European Peoples “Is There a European Cultural Consciousness?”
Speech by José Ortega y Gasset on September 29, 1953, on the occasion of the annual conference of the Kulturkreis in Munich
José Ortega y Gasset
The audience during Theodor Heuss's lecture
The Freedom of Contemporary Art
Speech by Otto Maurer, 1959
Regensburg, July 7, 1959: Monsignor Professor Otto Mauer, cathedral preacher at St. Stephen’s in Vienna, delivered the keynote address at the 8th general meeting of the Kulturkreis.
The Intersection of Art and Business in Our Time
Speech by Jürgen Ponto at the 1973 Annual Conference
Jürgen Ponto
Art and the Promotion of Art in a Democratic Society
Speech by Walter Scheel in 1976—on the 25th anniversary of the Kulturkreis
Former Federal President Walter Scheel