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…
Latin America translator Erna Pfeiffer (67) was awarded the European Tolerance Prize 2020 for Democracy and Human Rights by the Austrian PEN Club and the city of Villach on Thursday evening in Fresach. In her texts and translations, the author manages to break through seemingly insurmountable language barriers so that a dialogue can arise, the…
The German-British literary scholar Rüdiger Görner, one of the star guests of this year’s European tolerance talks in Fresach, will speak about the difficult relationship of the British to the European continent and in particular to the European Union. In an interview with the news agency pressetext, the sympathetic literary connoisseur let us see what’s…
Within the framework of the European Tolerance Talks 2017 PEN Club Austria celebrated the 70th anniversary of its re-establishment with a reading and a “long night of literature” in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach. PEN President Helmuth A. Niederle and Vice President Kurt F. Svatek therefor asked for the issuance of 20 Nansen passports…
Three years he sat in prison, just because he had dared to compete against President Paul Biya who is in power since 1982. Since May, he is now on the loose. The weekend he was in Austria to fulminate against the corrupt political caste in his country Cameroon. When asked whether he will rise despite…
Literature on a high level und performance ready for the stage: the participants of the Young Poetry Slam of Fresach convinced and filled the audience of the first European Tolerance Dialogues on Whitsuntide at the Carinthian mountain village with enthusiasm. Helmuth A. Niederle, President of the PEN writer’s guild praised the quality of the contributions…
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