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.

Leopoldsaal (Faculty of Catholic Theology)

The Police, Serving and Protecting?

Investigations on Police Violence and a Lack of Control

Talk

Time and again, headlines bring attention to violence committed by police officers. In 2022, only in Austria, over 300 suspected cases of excessive police violence were registered. They report of racist attacks, radical right-wing chat groups and violent actions against climate protesters. An esprit of corps within those groups often hinders mutual control. On the one hand, people affected therefore have hardly any chance to have their cases independently resolved; and on the other hand, colleagues slowly undermine the reputation of good police officers. What change do we need to see?

Hannah Espín Grau
Employee at the Department of Criminology & Criminal Law,
Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.
Colette Schmidt
Editor focussing on human rights, anti-democratic movements and networks of right-wing extremists, Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, Vienna
Gerhard Stix
Police Union, Police Tyrol

Hosted by
Christina Zühlke
Investigative journalist, e.g. for German public-service broadcaster WDR, Monitor, co-author of “Tatort Polizei – Gewalt, Rassismus und mangelnde Kontrolle” (Crime Scene Police – Violence, Racism and a Lack of Control), Cologne

German

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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

Informationen über Tickets, Anreise, Unterkünfte, Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und Aktuelles zur Region Innsbruck.

A weekend with a view

Program

The Police, Serving and Protecting?