Books by Martina Maria Sam

MARTINA MARIA SAM was born in 1960 in Hornbach/Odenwald, Germany. From 1979-81, she studied sociology and political science at the University of Heidelberg. Between 1981 and 1986, she attended the Institute for Waldorf Pedagogy, Witten-Annen where she studied eurythmy and pedagogy. From 1987 to 1992, she was active as a eurythmist on the Goetheanum stage while, at the same time, working for various publishers. From 1989-2000, she assisted in the publication of the Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe [Rudolf Steiner's collected works]. During the same period, she studied art history, German, and history at the University of Basel where she wrote her Master's thesis on Rudolf Steiner's blackboard drawings (Bildspuren der Imagination [Image traces of imagination], Dornach, 2000). From 1996-98 she served as editor of the weekly newspaper, Das Goetheanum. In January, 2000, she assumed the leadership of the Sektion fur Schoene Wissenschaften (Literary Arts and Humanities Section) of the School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum.