17. Apr. 2025 / Science & Research

On the trail of hearing – Insight into music therapy

Listening has multiple meanings. For me, listening has been a professional tool for decades - both as a musician and music therapist and as a professor who teaches, researches and is constantly learning.
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16. Apr. 2025 / Campus Living

Living connected

When I open the newspaper, I am horrified. I have the feeling that times are changing at breakneck speed: Existing, traditional values are not only being questioned, but seemingly abandoned without much inhibition.
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16. Apr. 2025 / Science & Research

80 years ago – 1945 the zero hour?

80 years ago – 1945 the zero hour in the Adventist Church in Germany? The end of the Second World War is perhaps the greatest turning point in German history of the 20th century. The signing of Germany's unconditional surrender in Reims ...
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16. Apr. 2025 / Science & Research

On the trail of hearing

Listening has multiple meanings. For me, listening has been a professional tool for decades - both as a musician and music therapist and as a professor who teaches, researches and is constantly learning.
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16. Apr. 2025 / Science & Research

The man who refused to give the Hitler salute: Erwin Bauermann

When Seventh-day Adventists had to deal with persecution and/or oppression in the past, this was mostly due to the observance of the Sabbath as a day of rest. Especially during the National Socialist era, the proximity to ‘Jewish’ views threatened...
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16. Apr. 2025 / Learning & Studying

“Ready for farewell and new beginning …”

This is a line from Hermann Hesse's perhaps best-known poem “Steps”. I have often heard this poem quoted – and I am currently experiencing it in a very existential way, as I will be retiring in about a year's time. For more than 20 years ...
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16. Apr. 2025 / Campus Living / Events

Friedensau on the road in NRW

Friedensau Community Meeting Day in North Rhine-Westphalia. This year, on 25 January 2025, it was once again ‘Friedensau on the road’. This time, North Rhine-Westphalia was the destination.
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28. Jan. 2025 / Science & Research

New research findings on Adventist martyrs

It was 20 years ago in the summer of 2005 that one of the most interesting archives in Germany opened its doors to researchers: the ‘Arolsen Archives’ - the International Centre for Nazi Persecution.
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27. Jan. 2025 / Science & Research

“Open up and become light”

They are certainly imposing, the large brick buildings in the middle of the forest. They were built with a vision and messages that still visibly shape the character of the site today: "Arise and be light" is a reference to Isaiah 60:1.
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27. Jan. 2025 / Science & Research

A manager from East Prussia: Wilhelm Krumm

Great ideas are not a recipe for success. They remain castles in the air as long as there is no one to implement them. It is not uncommon for these key people to remain in the background, although without their reliability, perseverance and ...
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