The European Tolerance Talks in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach will address questions of resistance against misguided policies, injustice, and inequality in 2026. The traditional week of dialogue will open before Pentecost with a “Walk and Think” concert on May 17th, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Ingeborg Bachmann’s birth, who wrote against the “prevailing…
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…
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…
How do we deal with the increasing disruption of international relations? The 11th European Tolerance Talks from June 1 to 7, 2025 will deal with the topic “Madness – World in Disorder?” – and the focus will be on the diverse worries and concerns about the increasing erosion of the rules that have been in…
At the conclusion of the European Tolerance Talks 2024, the Denk.Raum.Fresach Board adopted a truth charter in which the principles and methods for researching truth are defined. Governments and civil society are called upon to strengthen trust in scientific methods for finding the truth, it says. This cannot be achieved through regulations or laws, but…
The Carinthian mountain village of Fresach is among the finalists of the Austrian “European Award 2024”. The municipality was able to convince in the “Europe in the community” category with the European Tolerance Talks. With this project, Fresach is making a significant contribution to achieving the common goals of European understanding and strengthening European awareness,…
“Truth – What is real?” is the subject of the 10th European Tolerance Talks in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach from May 15th to 18th, 2025 – and the focus is on the diverse concerns about increasing attempts to influence democratic elections through news manipulation and alternative facts. Over 30 experts from philosophy and…
In the town hall of the city of Villach, Denk.Raum.Fresach presented on Thursday the program of the 10th European Tolerance Talks from May 15 to 18, 2024. Three dozen philosophers, scientists, authors and economists will discuss “Truth and what is real?“ The topic is particularly relevant in view of the upcoming European elections in June…
Truth from the perspective of reality: When a quotations researcher and a computer science philosopher meet a psychotherapist and a politician, different definitions of terms naturally arise. The panel at the presentation of the 2024 Tolerance Talks on Thursday evening in Vienna agreed on one thing. The digitalization and the associated algorithmization of all processes…
Truth is a big word and, especially in politics, a requirement that can hardly be fulfilled. Social and economic coexistence is almost always about asserting interests and distributing resources and not about finding the truth of all. The 2024 European elections are therefore an opportunity to shed light on many truths that are being widely…
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