Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1746/en

Manfred Klett was born in 1933 in Tanganyika, present-day Tanzania, on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. His school years were spent, among other places, at the Schule Schloss Salem and, after the Second World War, at the Waldorf school in Stuttgart, with a one-year student exchange in England. A course of study at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart came to a premature end through an accident. During a year-long working stay in north-eastern Syria he resolved to become a farmer. An apprenticeship was followed by the study of agriculture at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, culminating in a doctorate in soil science. A further four years were devoted to research at the Institute for Biodynamic Farming Methods on the theme of "Manuring and Food Quality." The year 1968 marked the founding of the Dottenfelderhof farm community (five families) and, shortly thereafter, of the Dottenfelderhof School of Agriculture. After twenty years of biodynamic building work together with his wife and five children, he took over the leadership of the "Agricultural Department of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum" in Dornach, Switzerland. After fourteen years in that post and a further eight years as a freelance collaborator at the in the meantime refounded "Section for Agriculture," he returned to the Dottenfelder Hof and took up teaching once more at the School of Agriculture there. Alongside this he has, for twenty-one years, been tending the village project Juchowo in Poland — an attempt to create in eastern Europe a nursery in which the "formation of the Earth" (Novalis) presents itself as a social task, and in which "the social question" may find an answer in the formation of the Earth.

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