In His Studio—Rudolf Steiner’s Illness
In His Studio—Rudolf Steiner’s Illness

In His Studio—Rudolf Steiner’s Illness

06 September 2025 Peter Selg 24 views

October 1, 1924 to March 30, 1925—“A sudden end [to the September courses]: Rudolf Steiner’s illness set in. The situation changed completely. I left the clinic to nurse Dr. Steiner with no idea of the difficulties to come,” wrote Ita Wegman years later.1 On Tuesday, September 30, 1924, she sent urgent telegrams to her medical colleagues Ludwig Noll and Eberhard Schickler, asking them to come to Arlesheim to support the clinic during her absence, and for Noll to help her with Rudolf Steiner’s treatment. One day later, on October 1, Steiner bid farewell to House Hansi: “I’m going up [to the studio] for two days,” he told Helene Lehmann. In the end, Steiner was ill for six months and never returned from his studio in the Carpentry Workshop. Helene Lehmann remembers: “He comforted me when I looked frightened.”

 

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