Programm 2026
Week 1 – Munich, the Athens on the Isar River
If you have a garden and a library, you have all you need.
Cicero
Do we look to nature as a blueprint for life?
We find the Roman statesman and scholar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, stylus in hand on a late May afternoon: ageing, a little bored,
and achingly aware of his own weakness. Robbed of his legal and senatorial potency by Caesar (nicknamed 'the All-Powerful' by Cicero),
he withdrew to his estates, and tried to keep busy. He formed new friendships in this spirit, amongst them the illustrious,
encyclopaedic Marcus Terentius Varro. Cicero was trying to meet with Varro in person, rather than on paper. Should Varro come to Cicero,
or vice versa? It didn't matter, wrote the statesman. 'If you have a garden in your library,' wrote Cicero to his new friend, 'we will want for nothing.'
Thursday, June 25, 2026
S-Bahn 1 (blue) direction airport - stop Moosach
15.00h: Check-in at: Meininger Hotel, Landshuter Allee 174, Tel. +49 089-89679961
Reservation: European Alpine Academy (Res. Nr. 1009173845)
18.00h: Meet in the lobby of the Meininger Hotel
Dinner: Biergarten
Friday, June 26, 2026 (The 1st summit: The Olympiaberg)
09.00h - 10.00h: Breakfast at the hotel
10.00h: Meet at the lobby
10.00h - 12.00h: The first "mountain tour": The Olympiaberg
12.00h: Lunch: Munich office of the JLG, Richard-Wagner Str. 27
13.00 - 14.00: Overview and introduction to the program
15.00h - 18.00h: Historical city tour (HP)
19.00h: Dinner: Biergarten - Chinese Tower
Lodging: Meininger Hotel
Saturday, June 27, 2026
09.00h - 10.00h: Breakfast at the hotel
12.00h: Discover Munich on your own
17.00h - 19.00h: A get-together with the Timaios Society
18.00h: Dinner Biergarten
Lodging: Meininger Hotel
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Breakfast at the hotel
12.00h: Enjoy Munich
Lodging: Meininger Hotel
Week 2: Murnau in the Alps - A Town for Artists and Writers
Monday, June 29, 2026
Breakfast
10.00h: Check out. (pack yourself a lunch at breakfast); all meet at the lobby at 10.30h; then
streetcar Nr.20 to the main train station (Hauptbahnhof)
11.32h: Departure for Murnau
12.27h: Arrival Murnau
13.00 – 15.00h: – Vamos a la playa! Lunch & food shopping
15.30h: Arrive at: Naturfreundehaus Georg Rauch, Seewaldweg 100, 82418 Murnau
20.00h: Barbeque
HW: Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
09.00 - 10.00h: Breakfast
10.00h: Survival German
14.00h - 16.00h: Tour of Murnau (Jac-Peter Toelkes, James Loeb Society)
16.00h – 17.00h: Food shopping
18.00h: Arrive back at the Haus der Naturfreunde
20.00h: Dinner at the Haus der Naturfreunde
Seminar: Thoreau, Walden
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Morning: Breakfast
10.00h: Survival German
13.30h: Bus 393 from Murnau Hbf to Großweil
14.00h: Culture preserved: A visit of the Alpine Museum Glentleiten (Elfie Courtenay)
18.00h: Dinner at the cabin
HW: Theocritus, LCL: 28; Book 1
Thursday, July 2, 2026
The function of literature? To incite humanity to continue living . . .
Ezra Pound
09.00 - 10.00h: Breakfast
10.28h: Train to Mittenwald
11.23h: Arrive at Mittenwald
12.00h: Hike to the Hoher Kranzberg
14.00h: Arrive at the Hohe Kranzberg
14.00h – 15.00h: Lunch at Gasthaus St. Anton
15.00h – 15.30h: To the summit!
16.30h: Last descent with the Kranzberg lift
17.36h: Departure for Murnau (or 18.36h)
18.31h: Arrive in Murnau
19.00h: Dinner at the Al Lago
Seminar: How to read Theocritus today?
Friday, July 3, 2026
Morning: Breakfast
10.00h: Seminar: More Theocritus (LCL: 28; Book 1)
13.15h: Drive to Ohlstadt
14.00h: Exploration of the Ecosystem “Murnauer Moor” (Elfi Courtenay)
19.00h: Dinner at the Al Lago
Loding: Naturfreundehaus
Saturday, July 4, 2026
09.00 - 10.00h: Breakfast (pack a lunch)
10.28h: Train to Mittenwald
11.23h: Arrive at Mittenwald
12.00h: Hike to the Schachenhaus (via Jägersteig)
18.00h: Dinner at the Schachenhaus
Lodging: Schachenhaus
Sunday, July 5, 2026
08.00 - 09.00h: Breakfast
09.00 – 10.00h. Tour of the Schachenhaus
10.00 – 16.00h: Return to Murnau
19.00h: Dinner at the Al Lago
Loding: Naturfreundehaus
HW: Ezra Pound, Cantos (selections)
Week 3: Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Gateway to the Alps
Monday, July 6, 2026
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Ezra Pound
Morning: Breakfast
11.43h: Depart Murnau with RB 63 (12.19h arrive in Oberammergau)
13.00h - 14.00h: Lunch at Gasthof zur Rose
14.00h: A private tour of the Passionshaus with Sebastian Schulte (+49 1 604 601 603)
16.38h: Depart Oberammergau
18.00h: Arrive in Murnau
HW: Ezra Pound, The “idyllic” in the Cantos (selections)
19.00h: Dinner
Loding: Naturfreundehaus
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Morning: Breakfast
10.00h: Survival German
11.00h: A day in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Alpine Museum; Olypmpic Stadium, etc.)
18.00h: Dinner at Da Noi
19.30h: Lecture by Iris Lauterbach, „Der ernste Wald“
Loding: Naturfreundehaus
HW: Ezra Pound, The “idyllic” in Cantos (selections)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Morning: Breakfast
10.15h (or 11.15h): Depart for Munich
11.26h: Arrive in Munich
12.00h: Lunch at the Richard-Wagner-27
13.00h: Tour of the Glyptothek – Museum for Classical Antiquities
15.30h: Tour of the University of Munich
17.00h: A visit of the Rationaltheater
18.00h: Discover Munich on your own
20.32h: Train back to Murnau (or 21.32h)
22.32h: Last train to Murnau (23.35h: Arrive in Murnau)
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Morning: Breakfast
18.00h: Dinner at Da Noi
19.30h: Lecture by Elfie Courtenay, “Die Natur im Wandel”
Friday, July 10, 2026
Morning: Breakfast
19.00h: Farewell to Murnau Dinner
Week 4: Make it new! Literary Encounters in Innsbruck
"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
Goethe
Saturday, July 11, 2026 (Innsbruck)
Morning: Breakfast
12.28h: Train to Garmisch-Partenkirchen
13.55h: Arrive in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
14.02h: Train to Innsbruck
Lodging: Nepomuk, Kiebachgasse 16, 6020 Innsbruck (6 Pers. plus Emma & Alfred)
Explore Innsbruck on your own
Sunday, Juli 12, 2026 (Innsbruck)
Breakfast
Lodging: Nepomuk, Kiebachgasse 16, 6020 Innsbruck
Explore Innsbruck on your own
HW: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1918): How to Read; Ulysses; The Serious Artist
Monday, July 13, 2026 (Innsbruck)
09.00 - 10.00h: Breakfast
Lodging: Nepomuk, Kiebachgasse 16, 6020 Innsbruck
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 (Innsbruck)
09.00h – 10.00h: Breakfast
10.00h – 12.00h: Seminar: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1918): How to Read; Ulysses; The Serious Artist
Lodging: Lodging: Nepomuk, Kiebachgasse 16, 6020 Innsbruck
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 (Innsbruck)
"I have been accused of wanting to make people read all the classics…."
Ezra Pound
Breakfast
19.00h: Dinner
Lodging: Lodging: Nepomuk, Kiebachgasse 16, 6020 Innsbruck
HW: Nibelungenlied (excerpts)
Thursday, July 16, 2026 (Meran)
09.00h – 10.00h: Breakfast
10.00h – 18.00: Leave for Meran
19.00h: Dinner
Lodging:
Friday, July 17, 2026 (Meran)
09.00h – 10.00h: Breakfast
10.00h: Idyllic places: Die Brunnenburg
19.00h: Dinner
Saturday, July 18, 2026 (Bozen)
09.00h - 10.40h: Breakfast
Ötzi
Das Nibelungenlied at Schloss Runkelstein
19.00h: Graduation Dinner
Sunday, July 19, 2026 (Meran)
11.00h: End of the program – The prophets desdend from the mountain to civlisation