16-18 May 2025
A weekend with a view
Look closely at what is happening.
Ilse Aichinger
16-18 May 2025
Look closely at what is happening.
Ilse Aichinger
Journalismusfest Innsbruck – Internationale Tage der Information (Innsbruck Journalism Festival – International Days of Information) is a hub, a place of debate and cultural exchange. Journalists from different regions of Europe and beyond will make their specialised expertise heard, enter into discussions about pressing matters with researchers, NGO representatives, and other experts and provide an insight into their job. All of them will also engage in conversation with the audience.
The international Journalismusfest is a cooperative project. The event’s organisers partnered with quality media outlets from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in order to bring this programme to fruition. Furthermore, support from local cultural organisations, partner festivals, or institutions like the University of Innsbruck facilitates the event.
It is especially public funding bodies, associations, foundations and various partnerships, that make the International Days of Information possible. In addition to that, we are happy to be able to count on the contributions of so many others.
We open a window for the complex present that we live in.
In 2025, we welcome more than 170 participants from 20 countries and three continents to ~70 events in the heart of Innsbruck.
The event locations can easily be reached by foot or bike.
A festival for the interested public.
Open to all!
The event is planned according to the criteria of GREEN EVENTS TIROL basic.
Welcome Anton Mattle, Governor of TyrolArno Kompatscher, President of Euroregion Tyrol – South Tyrol – Trentino, local governor of South TyrolJohannes Anzengruber, Mayor of Innsbruck Barbara Plattner, CEO Innsbruck Tourismus Uwe Steger, University of...
For a long time, gender-specific aspects of disease were overlooked in medical research and education — including in Austria. Due to differing symptoms certain conditions...
Media freedom is an essential part of democracy. Hence, there should be no state political influence on coverage. When the media are hindered from reporting...
100 years after broadcasters in Austria and Italy first went on air, radio still plays a vital role in the media landscape—including analogue radio. At...
The European Cartoon Award, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for illustrated political satire, brings its Traveling Exhibition to the Innsbruck Journalismusfest. This special...
Media companies are under big economic pressure. At the same time, independent journalism is a central pillar of democracy. Which are the measures required to...
After his extensive research on colonial machinations of multinational Heineken in Africa (“Heineken in Africa”, 2019), Dutch investigative journalist Oliver van Beemen delved into new...
Since the 1990s, street papers have been providing a source of income to people affected by poverty, homelessness and other forms of marginalisation worldwide. They...
Everywhere in Europe right-wing and partly extreme right-wing parties are enjoying rapidly growing popularity. Austria was on the verge of getting its first government led...
Artificial intelligence has come to stay in the private and professional digital sphere of many people, sometimes without our awareness. Companies are after hundreds of...
Also in Austria and other liberal European countries, increasing pressure is exerted upon journalists: with frivolous Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs), hate online, smear...
After its Austrian premier at Journalismusfest 2023 Germany’s most entertaining stage show for journalists returns to Innsbruck. Five journalists will report from their reports, five minutes each,...
Journalist Juliane Löffler invites us behind the scenes of her investigative work: She gives an insight into how research on abuse of power and sexualised...
In his book, award-winning journalist and long-standing editor-in-chief of weekly magazine profil Herbert Lackner illustrates the upheaval of 1945—now 80 years in the past. Lackner vividly describes...
What are you supposed to do when you stumble upon a taxidermized jaguar’s head whilst clearing out your late auntie’s apartment? What are the origins...
Doris Schmidauer likes to describe herself as “First Volunteer” and as part of a big group of dedicated women. Thanks to their courage and willingness...
Chicos y Mendez represents the essence of Latino sounds, acoustic reggae and world music: Like the children of Manu Chao with whom they have shared...
Journalismusfest Innsbruck will take place across 20 different locations, providing different degrees of availability.
All of our events that are accessible with a wheelchair will have the following tag in this programme:
Guests with a hearing impairment will find technological support with varying functionalities at many locations. Therefore, we kindly ask you to reach out to us with an email to info@journalismusfest.org before the festival. Doing so, you can clarify whether accessibility is available and what type it may be. The panel “Medicine with Equal Opportunities and No Discrimination” on Friday, May 16th at 1:00pm in the City Library Innsbruck will be interpreted in Austrian Sign Language.
We also ask guests with other sensory impairments or special needs to contact us via email at info@journalismusfest.org in advance in order to address the specific support options on an individual basis.
Das Journalismusfest Innsbruck findet an mehr als 20 Orten statt, daher variiert auch die Barrierefreiheit.
Alle Veranstaltungen, die mit dem Rollstuhl zugänglich sind, werden im Programmheft mit diesem Symbol gekennzeichnet:
Trotz Rollstuhltauglichkeit ist nicht jeder Veranstaltungsort gänzlich barrierefrei. An manchen ist es nötig, einen Lift oder einen eigenen Zugang zu benutzen. Bitte wenden Sie sich vor Ort an unsere Mitarbeiter*innen, die Ihnen gerne behilflich sein werden. Diese Veranstaltungen werden im Programmheft mit diesem Symbol gekennzeichnet:
Für Besucher*innen mit Hörbeeinträchtigung besteht an vielen Locations die Möglichkeit technischer Unterstützungen, die allerdings unterschiedlich funktionieren. Wir bitten Sie daher, uns vor dem Festival kurz per E-Mail unter info@journalismusfest.org zu kontaktieren, um abklären zu können, ob bzw. welche Art der Barrierefreiheit verfügbar ist. Das Panel „Diskriminierungsfreie und chancengerechte Medizin“ am Freitag, 16. Mai 2025, um 13 Uhr in der Stadtbibliothek wird in Gebärdensprache (ÖGS) übersetzt
Besucher*innen mit anderen Sinnesbeeinträchtigungen oder besonderen Bedürfnissen bitten wir ebenfalls vorab um Kontaktaufnahme via E-Mail unter info@journalismusfest.org, um individuell auf die jeweiligen Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten eingehen zu können.