Cathrin Kahlweit, longtime correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in London, Vienna, and Kyiv, advocates for a foreign and security policy buildup against internal and external enemies. In her speech at the opening of the European Tolerance Talks 2025 in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach, the former peace activist emphasized the need to defend the…
Europe and its Enlightenment, the philosophers of the postwar period (Ghosts of the Present), concepts for more orientation (instead of order), ways out of the current labyrinth, and a compelling appeal for more independent thinking in dealing with concrete life situations were the focus of Renate Schmidtkunz’s opening discussion with the Berlin historian of philosophy…
Comedian Hosea Ratschiller and 70 students asked questions, and Hatto Käfer, a well-versed EU expert and former Commission official, delivered dry answers. This year’s youth forum at the Neue Bühne Villach was an entertaining hour of democracy education for young and old. The topic: Europe in Madness – Only with Humor ? was met with…
The Tolerance Talks 2025 opened in Fresach on June 1st with an extraordinary reading by Carinthian author Lydia Mischkulnig and a brilliant performance on the significance of historical women’s literature by the two authors Elisabeth Hafner and Regina Klein. The event honored Enheduanna, the daughter of the Sumerian king Sargon of Akkad in Mesopotamia, the…
Klagenfurt Cathedral Pastor Peter Allmaier pointed out that the current madness in politics and society can also be viewed as a “consequence of a wrong lifestyle.” The Bible, in particular, provides numerous examples of how people became mad because they lived wrongly, Allmaier said at a press conference at Denk.Raum.Fresach in Klagenfurt. Allmaier’s entire statement…
The spokesperson for Denk.Raum.Fresach, the Protestant superintendential curator for Carinthia and East Tyrol, Margarethe Prinz-Büchl, was a guest this week of Carinthian Governor Peter Kaiser, who thanked Kaiser for “her important commitment and the always attractive program of the tolerance talks.” Prinz-Büchl reported, among other things, on this year’s accompanying art project, which is being…
Hannes Swoboda, Chairman of the Board of the European Tolerance Talks, fears that politics is maneuvering itself into a situation from which it can no longer find a way out. Since the ideological and religious frameworks have largely dissolved, we should not be surprised that we are now stumbling into a society of madness, said…
The well-known Viennese essayist and author Franz Schuh thinks, current global political developments are no cause for concern, and the parallels to the years of rising fascism very theoretical. However, the gap between what is happening and what individuals suffer seems unbridgeable. Schuh quoted Niklas Luhmann: “We live in such a way that everything can…
The European Tolerance Talks will take place in Fresach and Villach from June 1 to 7. Experts from literature, science, and business will discuss Europe and the new world order for a week under the motto “Madness – A World in Disorder?” “Oligarchs of all countries, unite with anti-democratic politicians and divide the world among…
In the presence of Governor Peter Kaiser, Villach’s Mayor Günther Albel, and Cathedral Priest Peter Allmaier, the program presentation for the European Tolerance Talks 2025 took place on March 18 in the Hall of Mirrors of the Carinthian federal government. Prior to this, the board of directors, consisting of Manfred Sauer, Margarethe Prinz-Büchl, and Doris…
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