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Category: Politics and society

Humbleness towards the Unverfügbarkeit of sleep -
About cycles, sleep rituals and Mother Earth

May 2023

by Susanne Müller

Surely it happens not only to me again and again that I lie in bed in the evening and think "Wow, beds are definitely amongst the best inventions in the world"...

Moving from crisis to resonance: A summer cinema

October 2022

by Philip Harms, Susanne Müller, Mabel Killinger and Martina Artmann

Films tell stories, they touch and move their audience. In this vein, the summer cinema offered the opportunity to experience nature, care about her, and be touched by her beauty ...


The need for self-efficacy in times of powerlessness.
Caring for nature in the city.

September 2022

by Mabel Killinger

At the beginning of August I was confronted with a small piece of paper at the door of my apartment building: "Dear Neighbors, The young trees on the Johannstadt Elbwiesen still urgently need our help. ...

Flötenspiel (1940) by Hermann Hesse:
A resonance-specific analysis and embedding in the sustainability context

June 2022

by Susanne Müller

Hardly any other German writer is able to touch his readers through his writings as much as Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Whether through his strongly autobiographical works ...

Loving Souls – Loving Hearts

January 2022

by Susanne Müller

A human being has a soul. Does every being have a soul? What about a dog? Isn’t a dog a being in whom a soul lives? And what about a horse that according to studies seeks a deep and intense contact towards human beings, comparable to a mother’s loving contact to human beings, comparable to a mother’s loving contact for her newborn child? ...