Hans Pusch
About
Hans Pusch, a skilled actor and director and a leading member of the Goetheanum stage group, later becoming an early beacon of Anthroposophy in North America. Hans began acting at the age of sixteen in Lucerne, Switzerland, where he performed in amateur productions of German classics with other young people during World War I. His performances caught the attention of the great film director Murnau, who offered to take Hans to Hollywood and train him for an acting career. Later, in Santa Barbara, Hans opened a speech studio, where he conducted courses in speech, eurythmy, gymnastics, play-reading groups, and introductory courses on Rudolf Steiner and his writings. Hans developed a repertory theater that performed Shakespeare, Thornton Wilder, Anouilh, Fry, and Eugene O’Neill. For the rest of his life, Hans Pusch worked tirelessly in the New York City area to translate, perform, and promote Rudolf Steiner's mystery dramas, as well as Goethe’s Faust, as expressions of the essence of Anthroposophy.
Author's Books
A New Kind of Actor
Letters about Marie Steiner and Her Work with the Actors on the Goetheanum Stage in the '30s
The Calendar of the Soul
(CW 40)
Introduction by Hans Pusch
Translated by Hans Pusch and Ruth Pusch
Revised by Ruth Pusch
Four Mystery Dramas
The Portal of Initiation - The Soul's Probation - The Guardian of the Threshold - The Souls' Awakening (CW 14)
Contributions by Owen Barfield
Translated by Daisy Aldan, John Fentress Gardner, Isabel Grieve, Brigitte Knaack, Ernst Lehrs, Ruth Pusch and Hans Pusch