GA 273 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions

Geisteswissenschaftliche Erläuterungen zu Goethes «Faust»

Das Faust Problem; The Romantic and Classical Walpurgis Night

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-2730-2 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-2730-5 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	1981	298	the publisher's online catalog
	1981		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

13 units in the printed table of contents, about 82,162 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1967.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
DAS FAUST-PROBLEM Dornach, 30. September 1916	1916-09-30	Dornach	lecture	9323
DIE "ROMANTISCHE WALPURGISNACHT." Dornach, 10. Dezember 1916	1916-12-10	Dornach	lecture	6727
GOETHES AHNUNGEN NACH DEM KONKRETEN HIN SCHATTENHAFTE BEGRIFFE UND WIRKLICHKEITSDURCHTRANKTE VORSTELLUNGEN Dornach, 27. Januar 1917	1917-01-27	Dornach	lecture	6819
FAUST UND DIE MÜTTER Dornach, 2. November 1917	1917-11-02	Dornach	lecture	4237
FAUST UND DAS PROBLEM DES BUSEN Dornach, 3. November 1917	1917-11-03	Dornach	lecture	4390
DIE HELENA-SAGE UND DAS FREIHEITSRÄTSEL Dornach, 4. November 1917	1917-11-04	Dornach	lecture	5113
GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHE AUSFÜHRUNGEN IN ANKNÜPFUNG AN DIE «KLASSISCHE WALPURGISNACHT» Dornach, 27.September 1918	1918-09-27	Dornach	lecture	7947
GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHE AUSFÜHRUNGEN IN ANKNÜPFUNG AN DIE «KLASSISCHE WALPURGISNACHT Fortsetzung: Darnacb 28. September 1918	1918-09-28		lecture	7933
DAS SEELENLEBEN GOETHES VOM GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN STANDPUNKTE Dornach, 29. September 1918	1918-09-29	Dornach	lecture	8328
DIE SAMOTHRAKISCHEN KABIREN-MYSTERIEN DAS GEHEIMNIS DER MENSCHWERDUNG Darnach, 17. Januar 1919	1919-01-17	Darnach	lecture	6683
DAS WIRKLICHKEITSSCHAUEN IN DEN GRIECHISCHEN MYTHEN Dornach, 18. Januar 1919	1919-01-18	Dornach	lecture	5328
STATT HOMUNKULISMUS UND MEPHISTOPHELISMUS: GOETHEANISMUS Dornach, 19. Januar 1919	1919-01-19	Dornach	lecture	6666
HINWEISE			apparatus	2668

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	13 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	12 the site's completeness audit
Words served	85808 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.08 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1967 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Problem of Faust the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page UNK1930

Translator	George Kaufmann the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1930
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
Goethe’s Faust in the Light of Anthroposophy. Volume Two of Spiritual–Scientific Commentaries on Goethe’s Faust the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 273 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	contributors: Burley Channer, Frederick Amrine	Witnesses differ: SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog Steiner Books AnthroWiki (English)	2016	9781621480914	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	13	8, 4, 1	552	3, 4

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	2 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	6 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The printed contents list could not be cross-checked against AnthroWiki's dates. the site's completeness audit
The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Geisteswissenschaftliche Erläuterungen zu Goethes «Faust» (GA 273), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/273/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/273/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions UNK1930.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_273
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_273 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 8ed11aa4af4849ec
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/English/UNK1930/ProFau_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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