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.

Claudiana, Foyer

The Other Russia. MEMORIAL

The Fight for Historical Truth and Democracy

Exhibition

On October 7 2022, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; just hours later, their Moscow offices were seized by the authorities. Dissidents founded the organisation in 1989, prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when Mikhail Gorbachev introduced policies enacting democratic reform, centred on glasnost and perestroika. Memorial’s work focused on confronting Stalinism and supporting victims of the gulags. Memorial collected testimonies and documented a history of repression and terror: Over 18 million people endured the atrocities of the camps. Over 2.7 million people lost their lives, many as a direct result of forced labour. Despite repressive measures under the Putin regime, and despite arrests and forced displacement of many of its members, even today, Memorial continues to work toward a democratic Russia.
The supporting exhibition programme also sheds light on Innsbruck author Peter Demant, who was forced to stay in a gulag for eight years.
This marks the Austrian premiere of the exhibition “The Other Russia. MEMORIAL”.

Welcome
Dirk Rupnow, Contemporary historian, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Innsbruck
Kurt Scharr, Historian

Introduction
Ivan Shemanov
Historian, Memorial, Germany

German. Free admission. Open from 9:00am – 6:00pm during the festival weekend, then Mon – Fri 8:00am – 4:00pm. Until Friday 29 May

Free admission

With the support of the ERSTE Foundation

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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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