Speeches from the Early Days of the Kulturkreis

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 the speeches that will be presented on Thursday evening as part of the Kulturkreis’s 75th annual conference in the form of a spoken-word collage performed by actors and actresses from the Berliner Ensemble. 

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 

On Contemporary Art

Speech by Theodor Heuss at the 5th General Meeting of the Kulturkreis on September 12, 1956, in Baden-Baden. 

The audience during Theodor Heuss's lecture

The Courage to Carry Out the Mission

Speech by Gustav Stein, 1956

Cologne, 1961: Gustav Stein presents the ars viva catalog. From left: Prof. Loth, Ossip Zadkine, Max Ernst, Herman Reusch, Gustav Stein, Hans Arp, Dr. Ziersch

The Intersection of Art and Business in Our Time

Speech by Jürgen Ponto at the 1973 Annual Conference

Jürgen Ponto