Seal of approval for Tolerance Museum Fresach

The Evangelical Diocesan Museum Fresach has been awarded the Austrian museum seal of approval. The young museum, incidentally Europe’s only museum of tolerance, was just opened in 2011. At that time the newly built museum building was awarded the Construction Award of Carinthia. The memorial to the history of Protestantism in Austria is a popular…

Lots of interest in FRESACH-DAY

Optimism, co-operation and constructive exchange of information. This was the impression of the first Fresach-Day with Denk.Raum.Fresach President Hannes Swoboda on Monday. Several mayors and tourism professionals in the region, teachers, artists, and local residents took the opportunity to discuss the ideas and proposals until their heads were smoking. Eight hours, from 13.00 until 21.00…

The Video to the Declaration of Tolerance

Most people liked it. The Video to the declaration. On the occasion of the first European Dialogues of Tolerance The Denk.Raum.Fresach (DRF) which is an independent initiative for tolerance and integration in Europe has published “Fresach’s Declaration to Tolerance 2015”. The declaration consists of three section and 20 items, in which a profound and current…

Think.Tank.Fresach debates definition of tolerance

“What we need, is not passive but rather strong and active tolerance – living interest, empathy, and the recognition of difference”, the evangelical bishop Michael Bünker said on Friday at the European Tolerance Talks 2015 in Fresach. With his statement Bünker lead the guests into a panel discussion entitled “modernity, human rights and Islam”, https://www.fresach.org.…

Schulz to open Tolerance Talks with video message

The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz will open the first European Tolerance Talks in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach next Friday (22nd May). Because of another urgent commitment in the Latvian capital Riga his speech will be presented in the form of a video message. Schulz was invited by DRF-President Hannes Swoboda as…

In religion, opinions are divided

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of liberation from Nazi-Germany the Mauthausen Committee Austria has examined how it is with tolerance in Austria: Only when it comes to religion there are strong reservations, especially against Muslims: So two-thirds (65%) would have a problem if someone in the family wants to convert to Islam. A…

MEPs support European Tolerance Talks

Austrian MEPs Eugen Freund (S&D) and Othmar Karas (EPP) are fully behind the European Tolerance Talks, to be held from 21 to 23 May 2015 in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach. In a joint press conference with Governor Peter Kaiser of Carinthia and Fresach-Organizer Wilfried Seywald the two MEPs stated that the new forum…