Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Between Literature and Journalistic Research

Christophe Boltanski: “The Lives of Jacob”

Reading and conversation

A photo album with 378 passport photos is found at the flea market: Jacob B’chiri photographed himself every day for a year in a photo booth in various disguises and poses. The first-person narrator now follows his tracks, from Paris to Rome and Marseille, to the cemeteries of Djerba and to the edges of the Israeli desert. In doing so, he explores The Lives of Jacob (Hanser 2023) – “the lives” because this word only exists in plural in Hebrew: a clever novel between literature and journalistic research, about the relationship between photography and identity, about the experience of war and exile, Jewish history, faith and the great tragedies of the 20th century.

Reading and conversation with
Christophe Boltanski
author, non fiction writer, journalist, Paris

Hosted by
Maria Piok
Manager Literaturhaus am Inn

French and German with consecutive interpretation

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

Die Veranstaltungsorte des Festivals liegen im Zentrum von Innsbruck. Sie sind zu Fuß gut zu erreichen.

Info

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A weekend with a view

Program

Between Literature and Journalistic Research