{"id":8018,"date":"2025-07-06T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:12:12","slug":"hymns-to-the-night-2025-conference-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/es\/hymns-to-the-night-2025-conference-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Himnos a la noche\" \/ Textos de la Conferencia 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian virtuoso, Emmanuel Vukovich<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hymns to the Night<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

The Fairytale of Eros and Fable<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Celebrating the Mountain \/ 2025 Edition<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

These are the texts used at the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco. Each text presents a fresh translation of important works by Novalis. Hymns to the Night will be performed again in English with violin accompaniment in the Carpentry Shop at the 2026 Novalis Conference in Dornach<\/a>. English language translation of the conference will be offered if enough English-speaking friends show up.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hymns to the Night<\/span> by Novalis is “the most important poem of early [German] romanticism and a work that finds its rank in world literature.
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— Herbert Uerlings, from <\/span>Friedrich von Hardenberg, genannt Novalis<\/span> (1991).<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Our fondest memories are woven through with Novalis.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

— Marie Steiner-von Sivers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dear Friends:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the highlights of our 2025 Section Conference was the collaboration between artists who affiliate with different Sections of the School. In this case, I and Emmanuel Vukovich (Performing Arts) collaborated to present an English-language performance text of Hymns to the Night<\/em>, one of the most important poems by a poet beloved by Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner. I completed this translation for the conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No recording or video was made of this premiere performance. It occurred on May 12 in the Sanctuary of the Swedenborgian Church, a National Historic Monument located on Washington Street in the Pacific Heights of San Francisco, close to the San Francisco Waldorf School. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emmanuel and I will perform Hymns to the Night again (in English) at the forthcoming 2026 Novalis Conference in Dornach at Pentecost May 22-26, 2025.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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“. . . reads as if a brilliant English-speaking poet had written them today.”
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— Peter Rennick<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hymns to the Night by Novalis<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

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Complete Text from 2025 Conference. Contains an extensive Afterword and Bibliography. Click to preview or purchase.<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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The Fairytale of Eros and Fable by Novalis<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Also available at the 2025 Section Conference was The Fairytale of Eros and Fable<\/em> by Novalis, freshly translated for our 21st century. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Conference did not make use of this text specifically; it was made available for those friends and members of the Section who share Rudolf Steiner’s enthusiasm for Novalis and who might enjoy this fresh translation or find it helpful. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This fairytale by Novalis complements the canonical Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and Beautiful Lily<\/em> by Goethe<\/a>. These two important fairytales should be read as counterpoints to one another. The Fairytale of Eros and Fable<\/a> <\/em>\u00a0is Novalis’s response to Goethe’s Fairy Tale<\/em>, which Novalis called quite wisely “a narrated opera.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Goethe’s Fairy Tale came to birth as a result of the friendship between Goethe and Schiller, and friendship is a dominant theme in the Tale. Schiller was the first and primary audience for the work. As is well known, it was the friendship between these two individuals, Goethe and Schiller, that inaugurated the period in European literature known as Weimar Classicism.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

From the Afterword to the Fairy Tale “Goethe in Paradise” by Bruce Donehower<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Novalis and Goethe are of course foundational to a literary reading of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy, as indeed Rudolf Steiner indicated many times. Rudolf Steiner called Goethe’s Fairy Tale<\/em> “the germinal seed” of the anthroposophical movement. When we look at anthroposophy through a literary lens, we find these two significant fairytales framing the larger narrative, one might argue. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click to preview or purchase. The complete Fairytale of Eros and Fable<\/em> (Chapter Nine in the novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen<\/em> by Novalis. Cover artwork by Raphael.)<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Celebrating the Mountain \/ 2025 Edition<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
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Click picture to preview or purchase.<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Also available at the 2025 Conference, this book contains poems, essays, and lectures written by Section friends and members. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The edition has been expanded to included the two Day One Keynote Lectures from the eight-day 2024 Section Conference that began in San Francisco and concluded in Toronto. Christiane Haid’s important lecture on Beauty is in this book. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and Beautiful Lily<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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The “germinal seed” of the anthroposophical movement.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

— Rudolf Steiner<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Also Available<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Click picture to preview or purchase.<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Click picture to preview or purchase.<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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