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Teacher Steiner – a script based on Rudolf Steiner’s life and work

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Teacher Steiner – a script based on Rudolf Steiner’s life and work (available on Amazon)

While working at the Waldorf School Vienna West and the Karl Schubert School in Vienna, I conducted research in archives and libraries to study the life of Rudolf Steiner. I also visited various locations in and around Vienna where he was raised, lived, and began his career as an educator and journalist.

The feature film script Teacher Steiner was written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart.

By studying existing and accessible documents, books, biographies, autobiographies, articles, and immersing myself in the atmosphere of the places, homes, cafés, and villas in Vienna where Steiner lived, I began to imagine Steiner’s life and the early stages of his career. These explorations led to profound insights, interesting discoveries, and even some personal revelations.

Here are some excerpts from how I envisioned key moments in Steiner’s life and career as an educator. 

I hope that directors or filmmakers—perhaps even among the parent community at Steiner schools—will discover this script and bring it to life as a movie, whether in the near or distant future. The whole script is available here or if you’d like to produce the script or some scenes from it,  feel free to ask for a free version!

Logline: Steiner as a home school teacher in 1884 discovers unusual ways to teach Otto, an 11 years old boy, who has hydrocephalus and can hardly write or read. The boy’s parents have almost given up on their son when the young man gives them new hope.
Parallel to Otto’s story, the movie relates Steiner’s and his wife’s, Marie von Sivers’ later struggle: the creation of the Goetheanum – a cultural center and the birth of the first Waldorf School in 1919.

Teacher Steiner