Program 2023
For three days, journalists will meet with other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck.
In discussions with colleagues and other experts, visitors learn what goes on behind the scenes of the often hastily and superficially conveyed information on international events and can contribute. Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, book presentations, exhibitions, documentary films and audio features.
The Journalismusfest Innsbruck (Innsbruck Journalism Festival – International Information Days) opens a window to the complex present in which we live.
In 2023, we welcome more than 120 contributors from 20 countries and three continents to about 50 events in the heart of Innsbruck. The venues are easy to reach on foot or by bike.
Cancelled:
“The Killing of a Journalist”
Thursday, 20:30, Waltherpark
Change of Location:
“The ray of hope”. Newspaper behind bars
Friday, 16:30, Leopoldsaal
“The sixth mass fatality and no one is looking. Biodiversity and species extinction”
Saturday, 15:00, Leopoldsaal
“Redistribute for the climate”
Sunday, 11:00, Leopoldsaal
Overview
Thursday, May 11, 2023
May 11, 2023
Untold. Theater in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus.
24 women from operas by Richard Wagner, each in her own cosmos, encounter “lost profiles” from different stage narratives. A photograph can reveal a tiny section from a stage event that the eye may not perceive. Moments in between. Moments of silence. Fragments. In the compilation, the images get in contact with each other. They enter into a dialogue. Reassembled, subjective storyboards emerge from the images.
Monika Rittershaus
Opera and theater photographer, Berlin
Fotoforum, Director
German. Free admission; Fri. 12 May to 9 June
Tue.-Fri. 15:00-19:00, Sat. 10:00-13:00.
An exhibition of the Fotoforum on the occasion of the Journalismusfest
5/8er in Ehr’n & Jazzorchester Vorarlberg "In the eye of the butterfly"
Welcome to an East-West meeting of a special kind! The Jazzorchester Vorarlberg, a formation cast in big band tradition, takes the 5/8erl-Voices in its midst and uses their instruments to give them a new style.
Admission: 25€
Friday, May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023
Opening of the festival
Greetings
Alexander Van der Bellen [video message]
Federal President
Sophia Kircher
First Vice President of the Tyrolean Parliament
Georg Willi
Mayor of Innsbruck
Peter Paul Mölk
Chairman of Innsbruck Tourism
Uwe Steger
University of Innsbruck
Afterwards
Standing up for press freedom - from Solidarność to today In conversation with Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik
Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wybocrza, Warsaw
OSCE Award for Journalism and Democracy
Bartosz Wieliński
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wybocrza
Hosted by
Nina Horaczek
Chief Reporter of the Falter, Vienna
German and English with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 12:15
The event with Adam Michnik takes place with the support of the Jewish Community for Tyrol and Vorarlberg
How is the Euregio doing? - L'Euregio come sta?A look from the perspective of the major regional media
Awareness of the Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino Euroregion has increased significantly over the past ten years among the population of all three countries. The activities of the Euregio are now perceived in all three countries, but least of all by young people under 25. Are the initiatives of the European Region sufficiently communicated to the public? For the first time, representatives of six major regional media from Trentino, South Tyrol and Tyrol are invited to critically and self-critically reflect on the public perception of the Euregio and the reporting.
Gianfranco Benincasa
Rai TGR Trento, President of the Trentino-Alto Adige Journalists Association
Presidente dell’Ordine dei Giornalisti Trentino-Alto Adige
Pierluigi Depentori
Editor-in-Chief of the daily newspaper L’Adige
Caporedattore del Quotidiano L’Adige
Toni Ebner
Editor-in-Chief of the daily newspaper Dolomiten
David Runer
Editor-in-Chief of ORF Bozen
Heidy Kessler
Editor-in-Chief of Rai Südtirol, Bolzano
Alois Vahrner
long-time Editor-in-Chief of the Tiroler Tageszeitung, Innsbruck
Hosted by
Verena Pliger
director of the news magazine ff, Bolzano
German and Italian with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 14:30
With the support of Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion / Con il sostegno dell’Euregio Tirolo-Alto Adige-Trentino.
The event is also part of the professional training of the Journalists Association Trentino – Alto Adige / L’evento fa parte della Formazione Professionale Continua dell’Ordine dei Giornalisti
Armenia - forgotten and threatened
Anna Aridzanjan
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Journalist in Audience Development at t-online, Berlin
Tigran Petrosyan
Is in charge of the Eastern Europe projects of the taz Panter Foundation, Freelance Journalist for taz, ZEIT Online, Amnesty International Journal, Berlin
Hosted by
Marianna Deinyan
freelance journalist, presenter, WDR/Cosmo
German; until approx. 15:00
With the support of the Centre for Eastern European Studies of the University of Innsbruck
Fri, 13:30
Ausstellungseröffnung
Fri, 13:30 Theologie, courtyard exhibition opening
Atlas of Globalization. The world in maps and graphics
The planet is at its limits, new viruses are temporarily paralyzing entire countries, and the gap between rich and poor is widening. Le Monde diplomatique’s first atlas of globalization was published 20 years ago. It set standards in journalistic cartography. In over 200 novel charts, this is the first comprehensive and vivid presentation of what globalization means in the 21st century: for the mobility of people and goods, for political participation, social progress or worldwide communication from San Francisco to Kinshasa. Eight atlases and 20 years later, this small exhibition uses the current atlas of globalization “Unequal World” as an example to show various graphic forms in their latest state. The exhibition was created for the Journalismusfest 2023 as a cooperation project with Le Monde Diplomatique/ Berlin and will be distributed by Südwind.
Dorothee D’Aprile
Le Monde diplomatique, Berlin, Management
Adolf Buitenhuis
Cartographer, Le Monde diplomatique, Berlin
Stefan Mahlke
Editor of the Atlas of Globalization 2022
German; until approx. 14:00
Admission free; in the Theologie: Fri. 12.5. to 19:00, Sat. 13.5., Sun. 14.5. and Mon. 15.5. from 10:00-19:00.
The exhibition will be shown from Tue. 16.5. until Fri. 2.6. in the WEI SRAUM Designforum Tirol in Innsbruck; Tues.-Fri. from 13:00-18:00; closed on 25.5. and 1.6.
The exhibition is a cooperation of the Journalismusfest Innsbruck with Le Monde diplomatique, German Edition/Berlin and Südwind.
The Nutella empire - research in the Ferrero company
Stefano Liberti
Journalist, reporter, author of documentaries, Rome
In conversation with
Benedikt Sauer
Journalist, Rai-Südtirol, Journalismusfest Innsbruck
German and Italian, consecutive; in case of rain: Leopoldsaal; until approx. 15:00
The Human Trial - documentary about stem cell therapy A debate about science and journalism
For seven years, U.S. filmmaker Lisa Hepner and her partner Guy Mossmann followed a clinical trial researching the cure for type 1 diabetes through stem cell therapy. The resulting feature-length documentary has won multiple international awards and made the shortlist for the 2023 Oscars. Hepner offers a very personal glimpse into the lives and feelings of both the researchers and two subjects who agreed to participate in the study for the sake of science as well as in the hope of finding a cure. Hepner found herself in an unfamiliar role as a type 1 diabetic and journalist.
90 min; directed by Lisa Hepner and Guy Mossman
Film in English with English subtitles.
Followed by a panel discussion on the importance and role of media in the scientific context.
Lisa Hepner
Filmmaker and Journalist, Los Angeles, T1D
Sabine Hofer
Paediatric specialist, paediatric endocrinology and diabetology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, board member of ISPAD (International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes)
Tanja Traxler
Head of the Science Department at the daily newspaper Der Standard
Hosted by
Steffen Kanduth
Journalist at Der Standard, T1D
Panel discussion in English; until approx. 17:15
The company DEXCOM supports the event and thus enables free cinema attendance. For seat reservations please call 0512 650470 (Leokino).
Investigating Western firms' links to Russian military supply chains
In mid-2022, several media outlets and NGOs began publishing research showing that Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom had been supplied with gas from gas fields co-owned by major European energy companies. In this way, the exploitation of fossil fuels in Russia not only indirectly contributed to the financial support of the Russian war machine, but also supplied military jets with fuel. As a result of further publications in Le Monde, Der Spiegel and ZDF, the corporations announced that they were leaving their Russian joint ventures.
Sam Leon
Data Journalist, founder Data Desk, UK
Mai Rosner
Senior Campaigner at Global Witness, UK
Jason Kirkpatrick
Razom We Stand, Senior Communications Manager, Berlin
Hosted by
Ruben Schaar
Investigative Journalist, paper trail media, Munich
English; until approx. 16:30
In cooperation with the Anti-Corruption Data Collective.
With the support of ERSTE Foundation, Vienna
Cobalt from the Congo - exploitation for digitization. And the significance of local radios.
The rare and highly sought-after raw materials cobalt and coltan are mined in Congo under deplorable working conditions. Coltan is needed for laptops and smartphones, and without cobalt, there would be no lithium-ion batteries in e-cars. Anyone who talks about digitalization offensives or e-mobility cannot remain silent about the exploitation in Congo by international corporations from Switzerland or China, for example. Copper or gold from the Congo are also needed by the industry worldwide. In the Congo Basin, resources in the world’s second largest rainforest are also being fought over.
The courageous Coracon radio network in the eastern part of the country, where war is raging, is often considered the only reliable source of information there with its more than 60 local radio stations. The Munich-based association Journalists Help Journalists, founded during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, supports this work.
Judith Raupp
Journalist, writes from Goma, Congo, for Süddeutsche Zeitung and ZEIT, among others. And trains media professionals in Congo.
Jaques Vagheni
directs the Collectif des Radios et Télévisions communautaires du Nord Kivu (Coracon) in Goma, Eastern Congo
Hosted by
Christiane Schlötzer
Writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, correspondent in Turkey for many years, co-founded the NGO Journalists help Journalists e.V. (JhJ) in 1993
German and French with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 16:30
In cooperation with Journalists help Journalists e.V. (JhJ), Munich
"The ray of hope". Newspaper behind bars
Since 1968, Lichtblick has been published as a unique newspaper that sees itself as the voice of prisoners at Tegel Prison in Berlin. However, due to an internal incident in the prison, the editorial team was no longer allowed to work. In cooperation with editors and layout artists from the Berlin daily newspaper taz, theopportunity has now been created to relaunch Lichtblick with a series of workshops and to continue to give prisoners a voice. The first new issue is scheduled to appear in spring 2023.
Konny Gellenbeck
Board member of taz Panter Foundation, long-time Director of the taz cooperative
German; until approx. 17:00
In cooperation with the taz Panter Foundation
Feminist protest movement in Iran:What's next?
In September 2022, the largest protest movement in the history of the Islamic Republic erupted: Shouting “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” – woman, life, freedom – thousands of people took to the country’s streets every day in support of fundamental rights. More than 500 people were killed and tens of thousands were imprisoned. Where does the protest movement stand eight months later? What is the role of European governments? And where do things go from here?
Shoura Hashemi
Lawyer in the diplomatic service, activist for the feminist revolution in Iran, Vienna
Mina Khani
Publicist, author, artist, feminist activist, Berlin
Gilda Sahebi
Journalist, doctor, author of ” Unser Schwert ist Liebe – die feministische Revolte im Iran “, Berlin
Hosted by
Dunja Ramadan
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
German; until approx. 18:30
Public Service Media - an (in)dispensable orientation anchor?
The fact that more and more news is being sourced via social media poses new challenges for journalism. Nowadays, many people have the opportunity to provide information themselves and thereby draw attention to certain topics. They all potentially have an impact on our level of knowledge by deciding which news is picked up, how much we learn about an event and how often topics are reported. This process is called gatekeeping. But how do public media exist in the new gatekeeper diversity? How can the public added value for society be made (more) visible, especially for young people? And what concrete measures have been and are being taken in Austria and in Europe?
Christian Daubner
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Bayerischer Rundfunk
Matthias Kettemann
Head of the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck
Irina Oberguggenberger
Journalist at ORF, project “Young Audience”
Magdalena Stefely
Editor at funk, Mainz
Klaus Unterberger
Head of the Public Value Competence Center of ORF
Hosted by
Nele Bulla and Thomas Gatt
Master students at the Department of Media, Society and Communication, University of Innsbruck; Director: Natascha Zeitel-Bank
German; until approx. 18:45
In cooperation with the Department of Media, Society and Communication, University of Innsbruck
Fri, 18:00
Fri, 18:00 WEI SRAUM Designforum Tirol Lecture and discussion
Point of View - Information, image and journalistic storytelling
Information graphics and data visualization are becoming increasingly important for getting facts to the audience. But mere “visualization” is usually not enough. What makes infographics and data visualizations a narrative and explanatory medium? Sandra Rendgen deals with the history and present of visual knowledge transfer. Using hundreds of maps and information graphics from all eras and media, she examines the changes in methods, techniques, and forms of narration and demonstrates: In the enormous flow of information in our everyday lives and the boom in fake news, it is more important than ever that interdisciplinary expertise interacts to explain complex issues in a comprehensible way.
Sandra Rendgen
Editor and concept developer in digital journalism, author of Information Graphics
Hosted by
Nicola Weber
WEIS RAUM Designforum Tirol, Director
German; until approx. 19:30
An event of WEI SRAUM Designforum Tirol on the occasion of the Journalismusfest 2023
Blind Spots: Ukraine, Belarus, Russia
For far too long, Eastern European cultural areas have been perceived in Western Europe as a uniform space without major differences. But also in the mutual perception of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, there are many blind spots, the legacy of the colonial past. Together, we will try to track down and uncover these blind spots to get to know each other and possibly also gain a more differentiated understanding of the current crises.
Iryna Herasimovich
Essayist, literary translator, PhD in the SNF project “Arts and Disinformation”; Belarus – Switzerland
in conversation with
Alexander Markin
Writer, translator of German literature, literary critic, lecturer at the University of Zurich; Russia – Switzerland
Andrei Vazyanau
Social anthropologist, author and translator; works at the European Humanities University Vilnius; Ukraine – Belarus – Lithuania
German; until approx. 19:30
With the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council
Dan & Lia Perjovschi: Fragments of Humanity
The couple Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Sibiu, Romania, is one of the internationally renowned and influential artistic voices of Eastern Europe.
For more than 30 years, Dan Perjovschi has been commenting on current events and everyday life in an unmistakably reduced visual language, with a few lines. His drawings on Putin’s war in Ukraine were on display at the last Documenta Kassel 2022. As a journalist, he is also the editor of the Horizontale Zeitung.
Lia Perjovschi’s work consists of performances, actions, installations, drawings and text-based works. Her collage series 2020 Timeline, for example, records current events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and encourages us to reconsider existing social structures and search for new, sustainable ways of living for people and nature.
Curated by Ivana Marjanović
Dan & Lia Perjovschi
Sibiu, Romania
Introduction
Ivana Marjanović
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Director
English; until approx. 19:00
Free admission, Sat. 13.5. to 15.7.
Tue, Wed, Fri 13:00 -18:00; Thu 13:00-20:00, Sat 10:00 -15:00
An exhibition of the Kunstraum Innsbruck on the occasion of the Journalismusfest
There will be a talk with the artists about the exhibition on Saturday, 13.5. at 12 p.m.
The lot of the galgos. Reports about animals
“India dropped out early” at the race. “Now she is needed for birthing,” writes reporter Barbara Bachmann. India is a Spanish greyhound. A galgo. Galgos are bred specifically for greyhound racing, a dog hunt for hares. In 2019, the Federación Española de Galgos counted nearly 12,500 sporting licenses for about 200,000 registered Galgos in the country; it’s estimated there are half a million greyhounds.
“Sandra loves arugula. And grapes. Sandra was born in Rostock, Germany, and moved to Buenos Aires when she was six years old. She is the most famous orangutan in the world. In 2014, a court in Argentina granted her the rights of a person for the first time. Bachmann has portrayed Sandra. And also Findus, a severely injured foundling fawn. The author raised it: “Can a human replace an animal’s mother?”. Reports about animals – an approach.
With an introductory talk about the Swiss magazine REPORTAGEN.
Barbara Bachmann
Freelance Reporter, South Tyrol, e.g. for reports, mare, the Süddeutsche-Magazin
In conversation with
Daniel Puntas Bernet
Editor-in-Chief of Reportagen, Bern
Introductory
Gerlinde Tamerl
Deputy Managing Director of Wagner’sche and literary critic talks with Daniel Puntas Bernet about REPORTAGEN
German; until approx.20:15
Always straight into the press! Reporter slam
Germany’s most entertaining stage format for journalists is coming to Austria for the first time. In the Reporter Slam, five journalists each report on their research for ten minutes in a varied way. But only one of them can become the evening’s slam champion. Who will it be? That’s for our audience to decide. We have invited guests from all over the German-speaking world – from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol and Luxembourg – to end the day in an upbeat and informative way. The Innsbruck band E43 will provide the necessary variety in between. And the winner of the evening can take part in the grand annual finale in Berlin.
Martin Hogger
Journalist, Germany
Marguerite Meyer
Freelance Journalist, co-founder Slam Alphas, Switzerland
Philippe Schockweiler
Géisskan Kollektiv, Luxembourg
Andrej Werth
Weekly magazine ff, South Tyrol
Viktoria Klimpfinger
Journalist and author, Vienna
Hosted by
Jochen Markett
Co-founder and organizer Reporter Slam, Berlin
Music
E43
German; until approx. 21:00
In cooperation with Reporter Slam
Attention! For a guaranteed seat, a paid reservation is possible via the website of Treibhaus Innsbruck: www.treibhaus.at
We kindly ask for a donation for the visit.
Pussy Riot. Riot Days. F*ck Putin
Admission: 25 €
“Pussy Riot donate the majority of their salary for a children’s hospital in Kyiv – we and our audience are joining them in this.” (Norbert Pfleifer, Treibhaus)
www.treibhaus.at
Saturday, May 13, 2023
May 13, 2023
Newspaper Breakfast. STANDARD Morning Review
Daniela Kraus
Secretary General of the Presseclub Concordia
Rainer Schüller
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Standard
do a critical press review with audience participation over coffee at Konditorei Munding.
Fight for Independence: Journalists from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in conversation
In Russia, the regime has suppressed any remaining independent reporting. In March 2023, the respected internet medium Meduza was banned. The editorial team continues to report from Latvia, where Meduza originated in 2014. In exile in Warsaw sits NEXTA: The Belarusian platform, which provides information on various social media channels, was of great importance to the 2020 protests and is widely received in Eastern Europe. Independent media in Ukraine, like Zaborona, also need support. Zaborona collects reports on missing relatives and documents human rights violations during the war. And in Latvia, the Media Hub Riga has formed to support more than 500 media professionals from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Thanks to the contacts of the taz Panter Foundation, Berlin, exponents of these media are coming to the Journalismusfest.
Alexander
NEXTA, Belarus, lives in Germany
Sabīne Sīle
Media Hub Riga, Latvia
Roman Stepanovych
Zaborona, Ukraine
Galina Timtschenko
Co-founder, CEO and publisher of Meduza
Hosted by
Barbara Junge
Editor-in-Chief of taz. die tageszeitung, Berlin
Katja Gloger
Freelance Journalist, Russia expert, author of “Putins Welt” (“Putin’s World”) and other publications, director of Reporters Without Borders, Berlin
German and English with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 11:30
In cooperation and with the support of taz Panter Foundation, Berlin and the ERSTE Foundation, Vienna
The Killing of a Journalist
On 21 February 2018, Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová are shot dead in his home. The case shakes Slovakia and the biggest protests since the fall of the Soviet Union take place. Before his death, Kuciak had been researching mafia structures in the country. In the documentary “The Killing of a Journalist”, his colleagues investigate his murder and uncover connections to oligarchs, judges and law enforcement agencies.
Direction Matt Sarnecki
with Robert Fico, Robert Kalinak, Andrej Kiska
Denmark, Czech Republic 2022
English and Slovak with English subtitles
Admission for all films at the Cinematograph: € 6,00; free admission for students
In cooperation with the International Film Festival Innsbruck IFFI
What do we live for? About the idea of researching deep questions of meaning journalistically
What do I live for? How do I get along? In the desire to find the deeper meaning in life, the search begins with oneself. It often leads to the realization that these questions are addressed to the community, there we want to find ourselves in the search for meaning, for a spirituality that sustains us together. This longing is huge.
The ZEIT publishing house strengthens content around the meaning of life, unusually, with its own sense editorial office. Two journalists from ZEIT/Christ &Welt and an Innsbruck-based meaning-of-life-researcher talk about a search for meaning that is also unusual and discuss it with the audience. An encounter.
Georg Löwisch
Editor-in-Chief of the ZEIT Editorial Office Christ & Welt
Kilian Trotier
Editor, coordinates the project ZEIT Sinn – Wofür leben wir? (What do we live for?)
Tatjana Schnell
Meaning-of-life-researcher at the University of Innsbruck and author at ZEIT Sinn
German; until approx. 12:00
An event in cooperation with the Haus der Begegnung
The Case of Julian Assange: Hunted, Caught, Tortured
“I have never seen a group of democratic states come together to deliberately isolate, demonize and disrespect a single individual for such a long period of time,” writes Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Journalist Julian Assange has become a symbol of freedom of speech. But if Britain and the United States have their way, the founder of Wikileaks should remain in prison for the rest of his life. Wikileaks, along with the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, had published secret military logs in 2010 that proved U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Assange was pursued by U.S. authorities and arrested in 2019 by British police at Ecuador’s embassy in London, where he was living as a fugitive. In the fall of 2022, Guardian, Le Monde, and New York Times called on the U.S. government to stop prosecuting Assange.
Christian Mihr
Managing Director Reporters Without Borders Germany, Berlin
Julya Rabinowich
Writer, Vienna, member of PEN-Berlin
Holger Stark
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of DIE ZEIT, Head of Investigative Research and Data Department, Berlin
Hosted by
Bascha Mika
Journalist, publicist, author, board of trustees of Reporters Without Borders, Germany, board of trustees of the taz Panter Foundation, Berlin
German; until approx. 13:00
Sat, 12:00
Talk about the exhibition
Sat, 12:00 Kunstraum Innsbruck Talk about the exhibition
Dan & Lia Perjovschi: Fragments of Humanity
The couple Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Sibiu, Romania, is one of the internationally renowned and influential artistic voices of Eastern Europe.
For more than 30 years, Dan Perjovschi has been commenting on current events and everyday life in an unmistakably reduced visual language, with a few lines. His drawings on Putin’s war in Ukraine were on display at Documenta 2022 in Kassel. As a journalist, he is also the editor of Horizontale Zeitung.
Lia Perjovschi’s work consists of performances, actions, installations, drawings and text-based works. Her collage series 2020 Timeline, for example, captures current events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and encourages us to reconsider existing social structures and search for new, sustainable ways of living for people and nature.
Curated by Ivana Marjanović
Ivana Marjanović
Director of the Kunstraum Innsbruck
and
Dirk Rupnow
contemporary historian at the University of Innsbruck
in conversation with
Dan & Lia Perjovschi
Sibiu, Romania
English; until approx. 13:00
In cooperation with the research focus “Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts” of the University of Innsbruck
Erfundene Wahrheit
In 2018, a scandal shook the German media world: reports, facts and entire interviews by award-winning journalist Claas Relotius (Der Spiegel) turned out to be fictitious. The fabrications were uncovered by Relotius’ colleague Juan Moreno, who was initially not believed by his superiors.
Director Daniel Andreas Sager
with Juan Moreno, Steffen Klusmann
Germany, 2023
90 Min. German
"War and Peace". A diary
On February 24, 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine. In March of the same year, the taz Panter Foundation launched the diary project “War and Peace”. Sixteen authors from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan reported regularly in the taz about their experiences of the war and approached each other in this way. At a workshop in Berlin, the participants were finally able to get to know each other. Some of the participating journalists talk about this project and how the war changed their lives.
Maria Bobyleva
Russian journalist, author of “This Is How We Speak” and “The Poetics of Feminism”, in exile in Riga.
Roman Huba
Journalist, Kyiv
Anastasia Magazowa
Ukrainian journalist, author, a.o “Unrecognized Stories”, Berlin
Hosted by
Tigran Petrosyan
Editor of “War and Peace. Ein Tagebuch” (A Diary), Freelance Journalist for taz, ZEIT Online, Amnesty International Journal, Berlin, and others.
German and Russian with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 14:30
In cooperation with the taz Panter Foundation
Alpine Towns - Key to Sustainable Development in the Alps
The Alps are often seen primarily as a rural mountain region with countless valleys. Yet two thirds of the inhabitants of the Alpine region live in cities. The trend is rising: urban agglomerations are increasingly being formed, and there is a regional rural exodus.
Alpine cities, therefore, play a central role in sustainable development: economic prosperity and innovation, quality of life, efficient mobility structures or climate and environmental protection depend to a large extent on cities. This is shown by the current 9th Report on the State of the Alps of the International Alpine Convention with headquarters in Innsbruck.
Wolfgang Andexlinger
Spatial planner, Office for Urban Planning, Urban Development and Integration of the City of Innsbruck
Ingrid Fischer
President of the “Alpine Town of the Year” Association, 2nd Mayor of Sonthofen/Germany
Helen Lückge
Consultant for Sustainable Processes, Co-Author of the Report on the State of the Alps “Alpine Towns”,
Climonomics, Tübingen
Hosted by
Dominik Prantl
Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung
German; until approx. 15:00
With the support of the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, Innsbruck
Wie nachhaltig ist E- Mobilität wirklich?
“Sustainable e-mobility?” Combustion engine out – electric motor and batteries in. This is how Elon Musk and the automotive industry like to paint the future of the car. But the promise is not only unrealistic. It also encourages new overexploitation of nature. There is no alternative to a rapid switch to electromobility if global warming is to be at least slowed down. But equipping 2 billion cars worldwide with batteries weighing tons would lead to new ecological disasters. The greed for raw materials to increase battery production a hundredfold in just a few years is already causing environmental damage in many parts of the world. And it creates new dependencies. New technologies help. Riding a bicycle more often helps, too. But without a circular economy, responsible trade and alternative transport concepts, the promise of sustainable e-mobility remains a grand illusion.
Radio feature by Peter Kreysler
54 min., German
A production of WDR/ARD Radiofeature 2022
Truth and Justice - The aftermath of the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
The assassination has shaken Europe’s media landscape: Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in October 2017 during her research into corruption and money laundering. Daphne Caruana was a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ, among other organizations. After her death, the family established a foundation in her memory. Daphne’s son Matthew, a Pulitzer Prize winner and investigative journalist himself, is working with friends to solve the crime. He is also campaigning against SLAPP lawsuits (strategic lawsuits against public participation), which are used against investigative journalists and human rights lawyers to silence them. His mother had to fight 46 such lawsuits, he says. Meanwhile, the EU Commission wants to take action against such abusive lawsuits.
Matthew Caruana Galizia
Investigative Journalist, Director of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, Malta
In conversation with
Nina Horaczek
Chief Reporter of the weekly newspaper Falter, Vienna
German and English with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 16:30
Podcast and other media
On the train ride, while ironing, jogging, or even falling asleep: podcasts are almost everywhere and it’s hard to imagine our lives without them. Even though it is a comparatively young format, it is connected to traditional media in many ways. Two alumni of the “Master´s Programme Media” of the University of Innsbruck, today successful podcasters, will discuss this interplay. The panel is part of a current research seminar on the topic “Podcast: Radio 2.0?”. The students of the seminar have co-designed the panel.
Antonia Rauth
Podcast Editor at the Standard, Vienna
Dominic Dapré
ORF Radio Vorarlberg
In conversation with
Students of the Master’s programme “Media” at the University of Innsbruck. Preparation and hosting: Janina Haas, Mirka Sonntag and Eva Schneider
Head: Dirk Rose, German Studies, University of Innsbruck
German; until approx. 16:30
The sixth mass fatality and no one is looking. Biodiversity and species extinction
Today, the climate crisis is the focus of public interest, while species extinction is hardly at all. Yet an active commitment to biodiversity would be an important component in an all-encompassing strategy to combat the climate crisis. It is not only elephants, gorillas and polar bears that are threatened; worldwide, around 150 species are becoming extinct every day. How can we communicate the consequences of species extinction even better to the public? What contribution can conventional media make – and what contribution can the entertainment industry make?
Simon Vetter
Verena Mischitz
Video Editor at Der Standard, spokesperson Network Climate Journalism, Vienna
Peter Kreysler
Hosted by
Céline Weimar-Dittmar
Climate Journalist, Berlin
German; until approx. 16:30
Bis zum letzten Tropfen
The Kaunertal power plant is to be expanded and subsequently extend across the entire Ötztal Alps. These interventions would irrevocably change Austria’s last remaining free-flowing glacial river, the Ötztaler Ache – and all this in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, species extinction and impending climate catastrophe. “Bis zum letzten Tropfen” tells the story of the last wild rivers and alpine natural spaces in Tyrol and of a movement that is trying to protect them.
Director / Screenplay Harry Putz
Austria, 2023
30 min., German
Questions about the film to
Harry Putz
Director
Hosted by
Joachim Leitner
Cultural journalist, Tiroler Tageszeitung
Professional networking eventAnti-Corruption Data Collective
The Anti-Corruption Data Collective is an alliance of journalists, academics, data analysts and policy advocates who have joined forces to uncover and fight transnational corruption movements. At this event, anyone interested will have the opportunity to learn more about the workings of the collective, exchange ideas, and network.
Michael Hornsby
Anti-Corruption Data Collective, Berlin
Sam Leon
Data journalist, Founder Data Desk, UK
Frederik Obermaier
Investigative Journalist, co-founder Anti-Corruption Data Collective, co-founder paper trail media, Munich
English; until approx. 18:00
In cooperation with the Anti-Corruption Data Collective
Black and Female: Tsitsi Dangarembga in conversation
Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the most important voices on the African continent as a multi-award-winning author, filmmaker and feminist essayist.
Her work is uncomfortable, illuminating and highly political. In her homeland Zimbabwe, she fights for democracy and freedom of expression; in the Western world, for a decolonized view of the African continent. Because of her artistic and social commitment, she was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2021. In 2014 she was a Writer in Residence at the University of Innsbruck. “Black and Female” (“Schwarz und Frau,” Quadriga 2023) is the title of Dangarembga’s latest book. It collects “thoughts on postcolonial society”: essays on the exclusion and oppression of people of color. In particular, she analyzes the double repression to which black women are subjected by patriarchal structures and white dominance.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Author, essayist, filmmaker, Zimbabwe
Director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA)
In conversation with
Bascha Mika
Journalist, publicist, author, board of trustees of Reporters Without Borders, Germany, board of trustees of the taz Panter Foundation, Berlin
German and English with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 18:30
She Said
In October 2017, the revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults triggered widespread protests, and the #MeToo movement was born. Responsible for that was the research of investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who published several articles in the New York Times with the accounts of affected women. She Said impressively describes the challenges of investigative research, the enormous pressure on those affected, and the intimidation attempts by Weinstein’s lawyers.
Director Maria Schrader
Screenplay Rebecca Lenkiewicz
with Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan
USA, 2022
129 min.; English with German subtitles
Star of the Giro d'Italia and bicycle courier of the ResistenzaHow sporting events change the world
Gino Bartali (1914 – 2000) is the most legendary Italian professional cyclist. And a “Righteous Among the Nations”. Bartali is remembered in the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. In 2018, the 1st stage of the 101st Giro d’Italia was held in Jerusalem in his honor. The multiple winner of the Giro and Tour de France, Bartali had smuggled passport photos and documents by bicycle between Genoa, Florence and Rome during fascism to provide Jews with a new identity. Bartali is remembered by Fabian Sommavilla in his book “33 Sportereignisse, die die Welt verändern” (33 sporting events that changed the world). Whether it’s the Black Power Fist at the 1968 Olympics or kneeling to protest racism, sports have always provided a political stage. Most recently, labor exploitation and discrimination against homosexuals were virulent at the World Cup in Qatar.
Fabian Sommavilla
Journalist, Der Standard, author of „33 Sportereignisse, die die Welt verändern“
Hosted by
Florian Madl
Head of the Sports Department of the Tiroler Tageszeitung
German; until approx. 19:00
Right-wing extremist strategies - and how we can counteract
On the Internet, in anti-feminist movements, in the police: the extreme right can be found everywhere. To understand their tactics and take action against them, we need to know the different approaches and connections. That’s why we take a multi-layered look at the movement and its diverse strategies.
Judith Goetz
Researcher, co-editor “Rechtsextremismus: Herausforderungen für den Journalismus”, Vienna/ Innsbruck
Patrick Stegemann
Co-founder Undone, co-author “Die rechte Mobilmachung. Wie radikale Netzaktivisten die Demokratie angreifen”, Berlin
Christina Zühlke
Investigative Journalist, e.g. WDR, Monitor, co-author “Tatort Polizei – Gewalt, Rassismus und mangelnde Kontrolle”, Cologne
Hosted by
Markus Sulzbacher
Journalist at Der Standard, co-editor ” Rechtsextremismus: Herausforderungen für den Journalismus “, Vienna
German; until approx. 20:30
Climate journalism: Are we good enough?
But is the coverage of the climate crisis good enough? Would it be necessary to provide 24/7 information about the tasks and questions that arise in the face of a historically first challenge for mankind?
Johannes Bruckenberger
Editor-in-Chief of the Austria Press Agency
Barbara Junge
Editor-in-Chief of taz. die tageszeitung, Berlin
Katharina Kropfshofer
Co-founder of the Network Climate Journalism Austria, Der Falter
Esther Mitterstieler
Regional Director of ORF-Tyrol
Hosted by
Daniela Kraus
Managing Director of the Presseclub Concordia, Vienna
German; until approx. 20:30
In cooperation with the Haus der Begegnung
Servus. Grüezi. Hallo. The transalpine podcast
Every week, three ZEIT journalists from Innsbruck/Vienna, Zurich and Berlin discuss current affairs in their podcast. After a successful guest appearance in 2022, the trio can once again be experienced live at the international transalpine journalism festival in Innsbruck.
Matthias Daum
Head of the Swiss bureau of DIE ZEIT
Florian Gasser
Head of the Vienna office of DIE ZEIT
Lenz Jacobsen
Political Editor at ZEIT Online
In several standard German languages; until approx. 20:45
Attention! For a guaranteed seat, a paid reservation is possible via the website of Treibhaus Innsbruck: www.treibhaus.at
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Sunday, May 14, 2023
May 14, 2023
The forbidden pleasure - mountain bike ride with trail talk
Cycling is generally prohibited in Austria’s forests. A seemingly banal topic that is eminently arguable. For years, the Tretlager column on www.derstandard.at has been devoted to conflicts on hiking and forest trails. Is this media excitement beneficial or does it rather prevent amicable solutions? On the contrary, do we need even more critical publicity to get things moving? Together with Lines Magazine, Tretlager writer Steffen Kanduth asks interested mountain bikers and local MTB clubs for a Trail Talk about the forbidden pleasure.
The meeting point is at the festival tents in Maria-Theresien-Straße. Those who want can reach the other locations by mountain bike or by train and on foot.
For information on the exact schedule, please register by email no later than May 5, 2023 at steffen.kanduth@derstandard.at
Italy after the shift to the right - Where does the country stand in Europe?
Italy’s right-wing government of Fratelli D’Italia, Lega and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is backing Italy First. One of its promises was to put Italian laws above European directives. Withdrawal from the EU, which Italy co-founded, is no longer being considered: Large grants are coming from Brussels. Patria e Famiglia, homeland and (heterosexual) family are ideological guidelines. The trivialization of fascism is now done by members of the government. Sea rescue for refugees coming across the Mediterranean is severely restricted for NGOs. Critical civil society is increasingly noticeable. In the ranking of freedom of the press (2022), Italy had already slipped significantly to 58th place before the change of power.
Karl Hoffmann
ARD correspondent in Rome for many years
Ulrich Ladurner
Runs the European Office of DIE ZEIT in Brussels
Günther Pallaver
Political Scientist, University of Innsbruck, Eurac-Research Bolzano
Alessandra Sardoni
Journalist and presenter of the TV channel LA 7
Hosted by
Julia Mumelter
Journalist, Bolzano
German and Italian with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 12:00
In cooperation with Centre for Italian Studies at the University of Innsbruck
Redistribute for the climate
Both rich people and rich countries emit many times more CO2 than poor people. At the same time, the Global South is already the hardest hit by the climate crisis, and Western companies are often responsible for the exploitation of the soil and the fatal consequences. And even within Europe, those affected by poverty are already suffering the most. However, when talking about combating the climate crisis, social impacts are often used to problematize the costs of measures. Participants will discuss what a climate-social and climate-just policy could look like and what needs to change for this to happen.
Peter Emorinken-Donatus
Ecocide Law Alliance, lawyer from Nigeria, Berlin
Clara Moder
Coordination Team of the Austrian Anti Poverty Network, “Klimasoziale Politik. Eine gerechte und emissionsfreie Gesellschaft gestalten”
Hosted by
Céline Weimar-Dittmar
Climate journalist, Berlin
German; until approx. 12:30
"Inside Austria" - How the Sebastian Kurz case made podcast history...
Late summer 2021: rumors of imminent house searches are circulating. The editorial offices of Standard and Spiegel prepare for intensive research and enter into a partnership. A podcast is to reconstruct the “rise and fall of Sebastian Kurz”. And so, even as the turquoise era comes to an inglorious end, a series on the ex-chancellor’s career is created. The “making of” tells how “Inside Austria” came about, how it became a weekly joint research podcast by both media and what the work behind the scenes looks like.
Presentation
Zsolt Wilhelm
Chief of Dienst Audio, Der Standard
... and the "Ibiza" background at first hand
In May 2019, the Ibiza video costs FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) leader Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache his political career and blows up the Turquoise-Blue coalition. In the fall of 2021, the ensuing investigations end Sebastian Kurz’s chancellorship. “The Ibiza Affair” is now a book title, a series, and a coined term – and a gigantic coincidence. In this live recording of “Inside Austria,” Ibiza wire-puller Julian Hessenthaler reports on how many impossibilities preceded the video and how often the operation was almost discovered. We learn: The release of the video was on a knife’s edge.
Julian Hessenthaler
Fabian Schmid
Senior Editor Investigative, Der Standard
Hosted by
Lucia Heisterkamp
Podcast Editor, Der Spiegel
Antonia Rauth
Audio Editor, Der Standard
German; until approx. 14:00
Jackpot on the beach - Where cocaine falls from the sky True Story Award 2020/21
“The man at the far end of Mexico doesn’t have Netflix. He just has to sit on his balcony to watch speedboat races, police chases and secret planes flying by,” writes Spanish reporter Jacobo García in his three-part feature “Caribe turbio” (The Turbid Waters of the Caribbean).
Cocaine ends up in the sea off the coast of Mexico. Trade winds ensure that the drug packages, which are not fished out of the water by smugglers or the police, wash up on the beach at Xcalak. There, greed poisons coexistence. Belize and Guatemala are also powerless against the cartels.
With this report, García won the main prize of the True Story Award 2020/21. A total of 1127 texts in over 20 languages were submitted for the first global journalism award.
Jacobo García
Spanish journalist, reporter on Latin America for 20 years, among others El Mundo, El País, The Washington Post, True Story Award 2020/21
In conversation with
Daniel Puntas Bernet
Editor-in-Chief of REPORTAGEN, Bern
German and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 14:00
Risky research - Current challenges for investigative journalism
For international investigative research, cooperation between journalists from several editorial offices, investigative platforms and research networks are becoming enormously important. Revelations such as the “Panama Papers” on gigantic money laundering deals by oligarchs, politicians and celebrities involved some 600 reporters from 117 countries.
The multi-award-winning journalist Luke Harding from the Guardian and Georg Mascolo, long-time head of the research network of Süddeutscher Zeitung, WDR, NDR, have worked on major investigative projects. And are still doing investigative work.
Harding, who was expelled from the country by the Kremlin as a Russia correspondent in 2011 and currently works mainly in Ukraine, has published on the Russian mafia state, Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, among others. His books have been translated into 30 languages.
Georg Mascolo, former editor-in-chief of Spiegel, has researched China’s foreign business dealings or US whistleblowers with the SZ/WDR/NDR research network and most recently published (with Katja Gloger) ” Innenansichten einer Pandemie – die Corona-Protokolle”.
The experienced investigative journalists talk to Alexandra Föderl-Schmid from the editorial department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the methods, challenges and risks of investigative work.
Luke Harding
Investigative journalist and book author, The Guardian, currently Kyiv
Georg Mascolo
Former Editor-in-Chief of Der Spiegel, led the research association of Süddeutscher Zeitung (SZ), NDR, WDR, is author of SZ.
Hosted by
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
German and English with simultaneous interpretation; until approx. 16:00
The event is part of the professional training of the Journalists Association Trentino – South Tyrol/ L’evento fa parte della Formazione Professionale Continua dell’Ordine dei Giornalisti
Sona Jobarteh – The Kora/Harp Virtuoso from The Gambia
The kora is a West African harp instrument that is traditionally played by men. Sona Jobarteh has broken with this rule and plays the kora standing up as the frontwoman of her own band.
Admission: 25€
The participants
We look forward to journalists, scientists and NGOs from different regions of the world.
The locations
The festival venues are in the center of Innsbruck. They can be easily reached on foot.
Information
Information on tickets, arrival, hotels, public transport and news about the city and the region.