To enable patients to take decisions, and assist the process of getting well holistically – those are two key concerns of anthroposophic medicine. In 2020 it celebrates its centenary. How patients experience this extension of traditional medicine is brought to light by new multimedia coverage, through select case histories.

The “Rotzfreche Spielmobil,” a mobile play bus, is a Darmstadt tradition. For over 30 years, the red and yellow bus has been driving to public squares to invite four- to fourteen-year-olds to enjoy fun and exercise in the open air.

Peaceful, close to nature and far away from large cities. This is how the Weidenhof at Seerau near Hitzacker is best described. Located in the heart of the Wendland Region in Lower Saxony, the former farm provides autistic adults with a home for life. In 1983, the residential establishment became the first of its kind in Germany, being established by the “Irene Foundation”. With a total of three sites, it is today at once a place to both live and work for 41 people with autism.  ...

At the new international Campus di Monaco Montessori School, children and adolescents with and without experience of migration are learning together. Supported by its multi-professional teaching staff, they experience the enrichment of multilingualism and cultural diversity.

More and more wine growers are turning to natural growing methods to produce complex, highly expressive wines. Biodynamic winegrowing plays a particularly prominent role in this development, but the approach – which has proven successful in the vineyard and in the glass – still has its sceptics. A world-famous winegrowing school in the Rhine region has now carried out a long-term study that takes an important step towards gaining more recognition for this method, including from scientists.  ...