Oslo Waldorf School

Many of its alumni have been noted in the arts, politics and other areas of society, and include the former NATO secretary-general and prime minister Jens Stoltenberg.

[1] In November 1921, two years after the first Waldorf School was founded in Stuttgart, Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner held two lectures on education at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo (then named Christiania), and the plan to establish a Waldorf school in Oslo was conceived.

Vult Simon and Gulle Brun however continued to operate a small Waldorf school in their home at Makrellbekken.

The school is organized as a non-profit foundation that is governed by a board consisting of representatives of the teachers and parents.

In Norway, anthroposophy in general and the Waldorf schools in particular have been strongly associated with the cultural and intellectual elite of the country since the early 20th century.

[2] Frauke Stuhl og Jan Hecker-Stempehl noted that "the model was originally the German Waldorf school, which was founded in Stuttgart in 1919, but in Norway, emphasis has been placed on applying Steiner's educational principles within a Norwegian cultural context.

In the advanced levels, students read, among other works, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parsifal and Goethe's Faust.