Steiner hat gesagt

“Steiner hat gesagt …” – now you can check. Search Rudolf Steiner's collected works from Claude and other AI assistants, with GA number, page and lecture date for every quote.

Among anthroposophists, “Steiner hat gesagt” (Steiner said) is the classic way to end a discussion, often without anyone knowing where he said it. This service lets your AI assistant look it up: every answer starts with Steiner hat gesagt: and comes with the volume, page and date.

The database holds the full German text of 307 volumes of the Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe (about 170,000 passages) and the catalogue of all 383 volumes. It is offered as a free, read-only MCP server.

Read the texts

Browse the catalogue of the Gesamtausgabe. Every volume and every lecture has its own page with the page numbers of the printed edition, and every page is also available as Markdown by adding .md to the address, for example /ga/327/5.md. For AI agents: llms.txt and sitemap.xml.

Connect

Server URL:

https://steinerhatgesagt.org/mcp

Claude (web, desktop, mobile): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL. No account or key is needed.

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http steiner https://steinerhatgesagt.org/mcp

Other MCP clients: add the URL as a remote (Streamable HTTP) MCP server.

Try asking

What did Steiner say about the cow horn preparations in the Agriculture Course?
Find passages where Steiner speaks of Ahriman and Lucifer together, and quote them with page numbers.
In which years did Steiner speak most about the threefold social order?
Show me the table of contents of GA 293 and summarise the first lecture.

Answers quote the original German. Claude can translate the quotes, but the citations always refer to the German edition.

Tools

`search`	Full-text search in German, with stemming. Filter by volume and lecture date.
`read`	Read a chapter, a page range, or the text around a search hit.
`list_works`	The catalogue of the Gesamtausgabe.
`get_work`	One volume with its table of contents.
`count_matches`	How often a topic occurs, by year, volume or place.

Source and licence

All texts come from steiner.wiki, an initiative of the Anthroposophische Gesellschaft in Österreich (1913) that makes the material of the former Freie Verwaltung des Nachlasses Rudolf Steiners (FVN) freely available. Without their work this service would not exist. If you find it useful, consider supporting steiner.wiki.

The texts are licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Steiner hat gesagt has reformatted them, split them into passages and added page and date metadata, and shares the result under the same licence, free and non-commercially. Every chapter links to its page on steiner.wiki. The search index was built from a one-time copy; the service does not load steiner.wiki when you search.

These are older editions with OCR errors carried over; newer editions are published by the Rudolf Steiner Verlag.

Portrait: Otto Rietmann, around 1905 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).

Design

The site follows what Steiner said about colour and space. The background is not a flat surface but layers of translucent colour, because “die Wand ist nicht bloß Wand, sie ist lebendig” (GA 286, p. 125). Its colours are what he called image colours – white, peach blossom, green and black – while the lustre colours yellow, red and blue are kept for what should shine out (GA 291, p. 48). And depth comes from colour, not shadows: a return to “Farbperspektive” (GA 291, p. 166).

Privacy policy

What is collected. The server has no accounts, sign-in, cookies or analytics. When your AI assistant calls a tool, the request contains the search words or volume numbers it chose, and the network connection reveals an IP address and a client name.

How it is used. Search words are used only to run the search and return results. They are not stored by the service, not used to build profiles and not used for training.

Third parties. The service runs on Vercel (hosting, region Frankfurt) and Supabase (database, region Frankfurt), which process requests on our behalf. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else. Your AI assistant (for example Claude) handles your conversation under its own privacy policy.

Retention. Vercel keeps standard request logs (time, path, status, IP address) for a short period for operations and abuse prevention; search words sent by an AI assistant are in the request body and are not logged by this service. Searches made on this website are part of the page address (for example /suche?q=…), so they appear in those short-lived logs and may be cached by the CDN without any link to who searched.

Contact. Questions about privacy or the service: kontakt@steinerhatgesagt.org.

Last updated: 11 November 2026.