It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the Weltenburg Talks 2025 to invite you! From February 28 to March 1, 2025 we will meet in the beautiful Benedictine monastery Weltenburgto think together about the future of the church, about encounters and about new ways of communicating.

I will be speaking about the importance of churches and monasteries in tourismhow these places can touch, excite and inspire people. Especially in our fast-paced world, many people are looking for authentic experiences, for resonance, for meaning. But how can we turn a brief moment of encounter into a deeper connection?

Exciting topics and top-class speakers

The conference offers a varied program with experts from the church, science, education and culture:

📌 Friday, February 28, 2025

🔹Opening by Abbot Thomas Freihart OSB and Prof. Georg Steiner

🔹 Lecture: Religious education between challenge and opportunity (Prof. Dr. Hans Mendl)

🔹 Social work with a Christian foundation – What makes the difference? (Wolfgang Duschl, Caritas Passau)

🔹 Evening concert: Baroque sounds in the ballroom of the monastery

📌 Saturday, March 1, 2025

🔹 Church schools – what makes the difference? (Dr. Markus Eberhardt)

🔹 Encounters in tourism – inspiring churches and monasteries (My presentation! 😊)

🔹 Church music in the course of time – Emotional communication of faith in the digital world (Roland Büchner, former director of the Regensburger Domspatzen)

Why should you take part?

✅ Inspiring presentations and exciting discussions

✅ Meetings with like-minded people and experts

✅ A unique ambience in Bavaria’s oldest monastery

✅ Culinary and musical highlights

Be inspired and experience how the church is finding new ways to touch people.

📍Place: Weltenburg Monastery, St. Georg Guest House

💰Participation fee: 145 € in a double room, 160 € in a single room (incl. meals)

📅Registration by mail to Georg.Steiner@gmx.net

⬇️ Download program as PDF

I look forward to exchanging ideas with you and hope to welcome you to Weltenburg!