Fachbereich Soziales, Gesundheit, Kultur & Sport der Stadt Bad Nauheim

The town of Bad Nauheim is known throughout Germany for its outstanding Art Nouveau complexes and the Trinkkuranlage is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful of these. Top-class concerts are regularly held in the listed complex. Between the horseshoe-shaped colonnades, there is not only an orchestra shell, but also the spa fountain temple with its splashing fountains. Behind it rises the drinking hall, which is architecturally based on an ancient thermal bath. In its center is the gilded spring bar.

Dr. Matthias Eigelsheimer will speak on the topic of "The view into the distance and individuation". Climbing a mountain simply because it is there usually fills an intellectual with the horror of absurdity. After all, it is no wonder that the wicked Sisyphus is punished for all eternity with such meaningless activity. This is why Francesco Petrarch begins his epistolary account of his ascent of Mont Ventoux with a justification of his actions. What he then has to say, however, in retrospect and regardless of its truthfulness, becomes a significant step in European intellectual history on the way to the conception of the individual. We want to follow this path, which began much earlier, and venture a look at its development in the period of early Italian humanism.

Photo: BNST GmbH

9.5., 7.30 p.m.

Trinkkuranlage (small hall), Ernst-Ludwig-Ring 1 / Kurstrasse entrance, Bad Nauheim

2for1: 7 €

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