The Schiller Institute has produced a DVD from the recorded proceedings of the international conference held on February 25-26, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. The conference took place under the title "Securing Mankind's Future", and this leading imperative shaped the entire two-day event. The conference provided insight into all the issues with which every person sees themselves confronted: the immediate danger of a third, this time thermonuclear world war; the desintegration of the trans-Atlantic financial system, which is providing the pressure for the war threat; the greater dimension, intimately connected to solving these crises, of setting mankind on the path to achieving the next step in its evolution - moving to a society whose power to survive is based on interplanetary space flight and fusion energy (the removal of "green" dogmas from cultural hegemony was also discussed); and, most importantly, the coming humanist renaissance, in which the creativity of man will overcome the neurotic sub-cultures of today's Zeitgeist, and that by way of an implementation of Schiller's Ode to Joy, which Beethoven has resound with full clarity in his 9th Symphony: "Over the starry tabernacle, a loving Father must reside."
A complete package of unique presentations, inspiring excerpts, lively Q&A-sessions, arousing greeting messages and wonderful musical performances await the viewer.