Only four weeks before the Tolerance Talks 2020 we start the campaign for the 3rd Villach Tourism Forum on May 27 (from 2 p.m.). Please make a note of the appointment. We discuss the utopia (freedom) of travel and the nature (destruction) of people with selected scientists and tourists. The event, originally planned at the…
If nothing works anymore, radical change is required. This applies more than ever today. But negative experiences alone are not enough as an incentive. “For a new start, you also need a symbol, that is, the idea of a way that could be better in the future than today,” says psychotherapist and Viktor Frankl award…
Cooperative management instead of predator capitalism: This is the vision of leadership expert Patrick D. Cowden for the company of the future. “In the existing economic system, people do not play a role because only pure efficiency counts. Only if we work together and for each other can we create a truly sustainable world,” Cowden…
GROWTH in the focus of the Tolerance Talks 2023 WAHRHEIT im Fokus der Toleranzgespräche 2024 Die ganze Wahrheit über Europa, die neue Medienordnung und die Kosten dafür “Truth – What is real?” is the subject of the 10th European Tolerance Talks in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach from May 15th to 18th, 2024 –…
The environmental scientist, social democratic politician and Club of Rome Honorary President Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker will open the European Tolerance Talks 2020 on the topic “Exodus – Leaving the Familiar” on May 28th in the Carinthian mountain resort Fresach. The longtime member of the German Bundestag, German church council and senior official of…
Exodus – Leaving the familiar Why we should see climate change and migration as opportunities. The radical changes in economy and environment are forcing people to rethink their proven ways of life and behavior. Large cities as well as rural regions are affected by climate change, with serious consequences for the entire food and energy…
The controversial psychoanalyst Prof. Klaus Ottomeyer in his contribution to the Tolerance Talks warned that the whole life is determined by the logic of “Homo Oeconomicus”. He criticized the fact that exchange values such as money or gold and their accumulation today are the most important values in our society, while living values such as…
Within the framework of the European Tolerance Talks 2017 PEN Club Austria celebrated the 70th anniversary of its re-establishment with a reading and a “long night of literature” in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach. PEN President Helmuth A. Niederle and Vice President Kurt F. Svatek therefor asked for the issuance of 20 Nansen passports…
Senator Marc R. Pacheco of Mass. Wednesday evening came to Carinthia in order to attend the opening of the European tolerance talks 2016. Pacheco on Thursday noon will deliver a keynote speech on the “Climate Reality Project” of forme US-Vice President Al Gore. Pacheco praised the iniative of tolerance talks at the opening in Villach.…