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The Darmstadt Seminars

In the years 1985 to 1987 Hannelore Eisenhauer once more had enroled as (guest) student to the Wagenschein Seminar of Technical High School (TH) Darmstadt.
In plain language and one whole sentence: During each term every weekend after Saturday lessons in Goldern a train voyage to Frankfort, on Monday (lessons in Goldern were managed by the husband as long as he did not join her), at noon or in advance from Frankfort to Darmstadt, in the afternoon two seminar hours and in the evening back to Goldern, picked up at night on the Bruenig railway station by helpful car owners.
After a few lessons of the second term she was asked by Wagenschein to deliver detailed, possibly complete protocols, suitable also to his own preparation and subsequence. This could not be done without a tape recorder
Thus we advanced armed appropriately, reduced by a while and experience to a "Walkman" with additional microphone. After some hesitating the participants agreed to be fixed by that way. During the journey back home the real job began: The tape had to be listened by and the contents written down. At home the rest of the family sat at the computer to type in (by Wordstar...) followed by a printout in bold double-sized letters as Wagenschein could read it rather well but still with difficulties (he was suffering by his retina beginning to remove).

In short: The files and the tapes are still existing, participants are anonymized, the sessions are worth to be published also for those who could not be present at that time.
We have started to present these protocols -slightly edited to a get a better overview- here in Internet (but there will be no translation of the sayings):