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.

Faculty of Catholic Theology, Courtyard – (in case of rain: Leopoldsaal)

Georgia: Concern About the Independence

and Protests of Civil Society

Conversation

After the legally contested general elections in October, the pro-Russian government was able to assert power. The EU-oriented opposition boycotted the parliament and the subsequent presidential elections—due to unresolved allegations of election rigging. Every evening, for weeks and weeks, hundreds of thousands kept going to protests. Many of them were holding EU flags, because the governing party Georgian Dream had suspended accession negotiations with the EU. Turning to violence and adopting new laws, the government tries to oppress civil society, to annihilate NGOs as well as independent and opposition media. Since the Kremlin does not recognize the sovereignty of Georgia, the critical civil society is concerned about the territorial integrity of their county.

Tekla Aslanishvili
Artist, Filmmaker, Tbilisi, Berlin

Giorgi Maisuradze
Head of the Institute for Social and Cultural Research, Ilia State University of Tbilisi, Author, Publicist

Sonja Katharina Schiffers
South Caucasus Regional Office of Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi

Hosted by
Tigran Petrosyan
Journalist, e. g. for German media outlets taz, ZEIT Online, head of Eastern-Europe projects of taz Panter Foundation

German

Free admission

In collaboration with Panter Foundation, Berlin, with the aid of ERSTE Foundation Vienna

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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

Georgia: Concern About the Independence