01 June 2025 – LITERATURE FORUM >> Tolerance Center Fresach StartPlaceFrameSubjectSpeakers, Authors & Guests 11.00 a.m.Tolerance MuseumReading and discussion with jazz musicMadness and Calculation A fatal relationshipWith the authors Lydia Mischkulnig, Daniela Kocmut, Regina Klein, Peter Wawerzinek and Elisabeth Hafner 12.00 a.m.Tolerance MuseumMusical MatineeMadness and Calculation A fatal relationshipWith Jazz musicians Wolfgang Puschnig, Emil Krištof and Jon Sass 04 June 2025 – ETHICS FORUM >> Neue Bühne Villach StartPlaceFrameSubjectSpeakers, Authors & Guests 02:00 p.m.neuebuehnevillach Youth Forum: Political Education TodayEurope in madness – only with humor Journey through the oddities of the EUWith cabaret artist Hosea Rathschiller, EU expert Hatto Käfer and students from Carinthia 06:00 p.m.neuebuehnevillach Philosophicum: Europe and its EnlightenmentSpirits of the present Concepts with a futureRenata Schmidtkunz (ORF Vienna) talks with the author and philosopher Wolfram Eilenberger 07:00 p.m.neuebuehnevillachOpening reception for invited guestsCarinthia is crazy Austria even more soWith Governor Peter Kaiser, Carinthian Parliament's President Reinhart Rohr, DRF-President Hannes Swoboda et al. 05 June 2025 – EUROPEAN FORUM >> Tolerance Center Fresach StartPlaceFrameSubjectSpeakers, Authors & Guests 09.00 a.m.Fresach Evang. ChurchOpeningEurope out of joint World in disarray?With DRF-President Hannes Swoboda, DRF-Chairman Manfred Sauer, Carinthian Federal President Reinhart Rohr 09.30 a.m.Fresach Evang. ChurchPolitical Analysis Project 2025The completely normal madness Reflections on a politics that has gone off the railsOpening speech by Cathrin Kahlweit, correspondent and author 11.00 a.m.Tolerance CenterEuropean Forum I Politics & Society Europe and the new world disorder Strategies for programmed chaosPanel discussion with Cathrin Kahlweit, Cornelia Koppetsch, Lydia Mischkulnig, Sonja Jöchtl, Moderation: Claus Reitan 12.30 a.m.FresachLunchtimeLunchtimeLunchtime 02.00 p.m.Tolerance CenterEuropean Forum II Democracy and fundamental rightsTwilight of the Gods and Human Rights Is the liberal democracy failing?With democracy researchers Veith Selk, Ursula Birsl, Vedran Dzihic and Gerhard Ruiss from the IG Authors. Moderation: Peter Fritz (ORF) 03.00 p.m.FresachAfternoon BreakAfternoon BreakAfternoon Break 04.00 p.m.Tolerance CenterTalk Meaning & Values Love, Faith, Hope Madness in biblical imaginationThe theologians Claudia Paganini and Peter Allmaier in conversation with Renata Schmidtkunz (ORF) 04.30 p.m.Tolerance CenterEuropean Forum III Tolerance & moreMadness, insanity or God's will? Suggestions for overcoming the insurmountablePanel discussion with Claudia Paganini, constitutional lawyer Karl Lengheimer, theologians Peter Allmaier and Victor Djan about the madness of time and faith. Moderation: Renata Schmidtkunz (ORF) 05.30 p.m.FresachBreakBreakBreak 06.30 p.m.Tolerance CenterFestival of Tolerance Award CeremonyCrazy World | Confused Souls European Tolerance Award 2025 for Human Rights of the City of VillachPeter Fritz in conversation with former war reporter Fritz Orter. 08.00 p.m.Private housesFestival of Tolerance Kitchen & Chimney TalksMadness and more Literary InterventionsWith guests and participants of #ETG25. 06 June 2025 – ECONOMIC FORUM >> Tolerance Center Fresach StartPlaceFrameSubjectSpeakers, Authors and Guests 09:00 a.m.Tolerance CenterLecture and Talk Delusion & RealityBig Deal or C(r)ash Course Europe's answer to the transatlantic confrontationManagement consultant Michael Paul in conversation with the political scientist and U.S. expert Reinhard Heinisch 10:00 a.m.Tolerance CenterBreakBreakBreak 10:30 a.m.Tolerance CenterEconomic Forum I Free trade & changing timesTrump 2.0 - Out of the frying pan into the fire? How we deal with the new customs in international tradeWith Andrew B. Denison, Anna Reindl from the Austrian Industry Association, business advicers Ralf-Wolfgang Lothert (JTI) and Lucas . Stahl. Moderation: Sonja Sagmeister-Brandner 12:00 a.m.FresachLunchtimeLunchtimeLunchtime 02:00 p.m.Tolerance CenterLecture Crazy RichCrazy rich and still poor: Why extremes endanger our democracy.With supervisor, business mediator and psychotherapist Ulrich Hagg 02:30 p.m.Tolerance CenterEconomic Forum II Madness with methodWealth without capital and assets How we reduce the increasing inequalityPanel discussion with psychotherapist Ulrich Hagg, AK expert Barbara Pegam, WKK department head Herwig Draxler and Carmen Treml from Agenda Austria. Moderation: Thomas Cik 03:30 p.m.FresachBreakBreakBreak 04:30 p.m.Tolerance CenterLecture NeulandiaCarinthia 2075: Space in Reorganization New life and work for rural regionsWith start-up founder, spatial developer and visionary Frederik Fischer 05:00 p.m.Tolerance CenterEconomic Forum III Ciy, Country, Living space Recycling instead of resource collapse How we preserve and renew the future of our livelihoodsPanel discussion with Frederik Fischer, Arch. Renate Hammer, Globalization philosopher Franz Nahrada, State Councilor Sara Schaar, and sustainability researcher Christine Ax. Moderation: Roland Gruber. 06:30-08.30 p.m.Tolerance CenterYoung Poetry SlamThe world is a madhouse: and here is the headquarter.Young authors face the audience voting, moderated by Lukas Hofbauer. 07 June 2025 – POETS FORUM >> Gasthaus “zum Wirt” StartPlaceFrameSubjectSpeakers, Authors and Guests 08:30 12:00Gasthaus "Zum Wirt"Tolerance Breakfast Poets' ForumIt's crazy: This tolerance breakfast Discussion topic 2026Get-together with authors, students, interested participants and visitors.
