Peter Selg in Ansbach: Lecture on Bach and Kaspar Hauser

Event: Lecture: Johann Sebastian Bach and Kaspar Hauser – about the Mystery of the Human Spirit in Tagungszentrum Onoldia, Hofwiese 1, 91522 Ansbach on 26. July 2026

Date and Time

26. July 2026 16:00

Artist

Location

Tagungszentrum Onoldia
Hofwiese 1, Nürnberger Str. 30, 91522 Ansbach, Germany

Price

12,00

About this Event

Literature & Readings

Mood

Relaxed

Venue Type

Inside

An Intellectual Evening Light Between Bach and Kaspar Hauser

As part of the Kaspar Hauser Festival, a lecture opens in Ansbach that remarkably intertwines music history, views on humanity, and cultural memory. Prof. Dr. Peter Selg talks about Johann Sebastian Bach and Kaspar Hauser, focusing on two figures that still possess a special radiance for Ansbach today.

A Topic That Demands Depth

The reading atmosphere of such an evening is created not by loudness but by intellectual precision. Here, spiritual biography, historical symbolism, and the language of cultural history meet. Bach represents the order of sound, while Kaspar Hauser embodies the riddle of human existence – together they form a resonance space that goes far beyond an ordinary lecture.

Address, Insight, and Cultural Discourse

Peter Selg, as a physician, university lecturer, and author, is familiar with questions from the humanities. His research focuses at the Alanus University and his work in the field of anthroposophical basic research give the evening a clear professional contour. Those interested in literature, the history of ideas, and the big questions of origin, freedom, and human dignity will find an author encounter with intellectual resonance here.

The Venue as Part of the Experience

The Onoldia Conference Center in Hofwiese is an established event location in Ansbach. With its spacious hall architecture and its proximity to Nürnberg Street, it provides a fitting framework for lectures that demand concentration and openness at the same time. The audience experiences an evening that unfolds not only content-wise but also atmospherically as a literary experience.

Why Attending is Worth It

This lecture combines historical reflection with lively presence. It invites attendees to listen to Bach not just as a musical genius but as a cultural ordering force, and to read Kaspar Hauser not only as a figure of history but as a lasting question about human existence. Those seeking intellectual depth and cultural education should experience this evening live.

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