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Romano Guardini

Romano Guardini was one of the most important philosophers of religion and theologians of the 20th century. The Catholic Academy in Bavaria, which also manages Guardini's literary estate, honours his memory with a study library and the Guardini Prize.

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Events on the topic of Romano Guardini

Monk by the Sea (1808/1810), Caspar David Friedrich / Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
The meaning of prayer
Guardini Day 2025
Monday, 17.02. - Wednesday, 19.02.2025

From the media centre: Topic Romano Guardini

What can interest theologians about literature? Why does a scientifically trained mind that reflects on religion need poetry? Let's take a look at an initial answer, written down in the middle of the 20th century: the "word of poetry" makes "the thing, the experience, the fate more dense and clearer at the same time". More concretely: It is precisely in the poem that "a gaze is directed from...
The main sources for Romano Guardini's early personal literary history are the reports on my life written in Mooshausen from 1943 to 1945. Two of them were published in 1984. A third, dated 7 March 1945, is as yet unpublished, but contains the most important and "new" insights for the question at hand. Guardini's reports on my life Under the title "Spiritual...

From the event archive: Topic Romano Guardini

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Presentation of the Romano Guardini Prize to Prof Dr Angelika Nußberger
10.12.2024
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POSTPONED to 17-19 February 2025
12.06.2024
Job by Andreas Neumann-Nochten
Turn of the times? Our present according to Romano Guardini
15.06.2023
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Romano Guardini's impulses - today's challenges
02.03.2018