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About
Joseph Campbell
Joseph
Campbell (1904-1987) was a mythologist, who interpreted the
symbols of myth by means of comparative methods and the tools of
depth psychology. His genius, as well as acquaintance with
renowned contemporaries like psychologist Carl Jung, Indologist
Heinrich Zimmer and author John Steinbeck, allowed him to develope
a unique approach to his material. Married with Jean Erdman,
choreographer and member of the famous Martha Graham Dance
Company, Campbell was inspired by the artistic way of thinking as
well as by scientific research.
On
our website you will find information about Joseph Campbell,
comparative mythology and related books and films in German
language. Sukhavati.de is a private, noncommercial and
independent website.
If
you are searching for information about Joseph Campbell and
mythology in English language, please visit the official website
of the [Joseph Campbell Foundation].
About
the Heidelberg RoundTable
The
Heidelberg
RoundTable
is a Joseph Campbell study group, located in Heidelberg (Germany).
Our meetings take place on one evening each month (mostly Friday),
depending on the members' availability.
We
are discussing myths and symbols of all times and origins with an
emphasis on their relevance for today’s world. Our focal point
is The Grail and the Wasteland: Based on the mythological
research of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Carl Jung and Heinrich
Zimmer, we try to revitalize the great metaphors of the past for
contemporary life and art. Our assumption is, that we are
spiritually, intellectually and symbolically in a situation, which
is comparable to the world of the Grail stories. With those ideas
at the back of our mind, we are studying texts, films, artworks
and documentaries.
Topics
of the past and near future are, among others:
Crisis
of Myth – Crisis of Man
Carl
Jung and the Discovery of the Unconscious
Death
and Dying in Times of atheism - Robert
Wilson's La Mort de Molière
Himmler's
"Black Knights" of the SS - Mythology in Times of
Fascism
Hamlet
- the Hero who fails
(with Hamlet-actor Oliver Stahlheber, Taeter Theater
Heidelberg)
Permanence
and Transformation – Archetypes and Folk Ideas
Darkness
encloses all Things – Carl Orff’s The Moon
Shaman
Myths and Fairy Tales
(with storyteller Erika Deiters)
Myth
and Music
(with storyteller Rebecca Armstrong)
James
Joyce's Ulysses
(with
mathematician and consultant Conor-John Fitzsimons)
The
Mystery of Time and Timelessness - Eternity as a "dimension of here
and now"
“Lay
around and love on you” - Ray Charles and the Art of the
Minnesingers
Roots
of Monotheism
Desert
Gods - Thomas Mann’s Joseph and his Brothers
Cycles
of Time – Philip Glass’ Akhnaten
(with art historian and egyptologist Maria L. Weigel)
Journey
into the Underworld - Ancient Greek Mystery Cults
Mythology as a Symphony - Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 5
(Choral)
The Power of Fate and Fortuity - Tom Tykwer's The Warrior and
the Princess
Technology as a "host of life" - Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi
and Naqoyqatsi
"... and beyond: Infinity" - Stanley Kubrick's 2001 -
A Space Odyssee
"... where the inner and outer sphere meet" - Novalis
and the seat of the soul
The Western Quest - Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parcival
(with Jeremy Kemp)
In
addition to our regular meetings, we arrange extraordinary events
such as movie screenings, storytelling evenings and excursions to
places that are linked to mythology.
Contact
If
you are interested in further information about sukhavati.de
or the Heidelberg RoundTable, please send us your request by use
of our contact form.
Copyrights
Sukhavati.de
wishes to thank the Joseph Campbell Foundation for
permission to use quotes and photographs.
All copyrights for quotes from German language editions by
the publishers.
Special thanks also to ...
~ the
library of the University of Heidelberg (for permission to
reproduce illustrations from the Manessische Liederhandschrift
and the Parzival-Handschrift),
~ Willigis Jäger (Portrait
of Willigis Jäger) and the
~ Kösel-Verlag (Portrait
of Karlfried Graf Dürckheim).
Texts,
Photographs, graphic works and webdesign by Martin Weyers.
All rights reserved.
Additional photographs were kindly provided by Damian Keenan, Martin
Schmauder, Connor John Fitzsimons, Oliver Stahlheber. In
some cases copyright-free photographs have been used.
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