01 June 2025 – LITERATURE FORUM >> Tolerance Center Fresach

Start	Place	Frame	Subject	Speakers, Authors & Guests
11.00 a.m.	Tolerance Museum	Reading and discussion with jazz music	Madness and Calculation A fatal relationship	With the authors Lydia Mischkulnig, Daniela Kocmut, Regina Klein, Peter Wawerzinek and Elisabeth Hafner
12.00 a.m.	Tolerance Museum	Musical Matinee	Madness and Calculation A fatal relationship	With Jazz musicians Wolfgang Puschnig, Emil Krištof and Jon Sass

 

04 June 2025 – ETHICS FORUM >> Neue Bühne Villach

Start	Place	Frame	Subject	Speakers, Authors & Guests
02:00 p.m.	neuebuehnevillach	Youth Forum: Political Education Today	Europe in madness – only with humor Journey through the oddities of the EU	With cabaret artist Hosea Rathschiller, EU expert Hatto Käfer and students from Carinthia
06:00 p.m.	neuebuehnevillach	Philosophicum: Europe and its Enlightenment	Spirits of the present Concepts with a future	Renata Schmidtkunz (ORF Vienna) talks with the author and philosopher Wolfram Eilenberger
07:00 p.m.	neuebuehnevillach	Opening reception for invited guests	Carinthia is crazy Austria even more so	With Governor Peter Kaiser, Carinthian Parliament's President Reinhart Rohr, DRF-President Hannes Swoboda et al.

 

05 June 2025 – EUROPEAN FORUM >> Tolerance Center Fresach

Start	Place	Frame	Subject	Speakers, Authors & Guests
09.00 a.m.	Fresach Evang. Church	Opening	Europe out of joint World in disarray?	With DRF-President Hannes Swoboda, DRF-Chairman Manfred Sauer, Carinthian Federal President Reinhart Rohr
09.30 a.m.	Fresach Evang. Church	Political Analysis Project 2025	The completely normal madness Reflections on a politics that has gone off the rails	Opening speech by Cathrin Kahlweit, correspondent and author
11.00 a.m.	Tolerance Center	European Forum I Politics & Society	Europe and the new world disorder Strategies for programmed chaos	Panel discussion with Cathrin Kahlweit, Cornelia Koppetsch, Lydia Mischkulnig, Sonja Jöchtl, Moderation: Claus Reitan
12.30 a.m.	Fresach	Lunchtime	Lunchtime	Lunchtime
02.00 p.m.	Tolerance Center	European Forum II Democracy and fundamental rights	Twilight of the Gods and Human Rights Is the liberal democracy failing?	With democracy researchers Veith Selk, Ursula Birsl, Vedran Dzihic and Gerhard Ruiss from the IG Authors. Moderation: Peter Fritz (ORF)
03.00 p.m.	Fresach	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break
04.00 p.m.	Tolerance Center	Talk Meaning & Values	Love, Faith, Hope Madness in biblical imagination	The theologians Claudia Paganini and Peter Allmaier in conversation with Renata Schmidtkunz (ORF)
04.30 p.m.	Tolerance Center	European Forum III Tolerance & more	Madness, insanity or God's will? Suggestions for overcoming the insurmountable	Panel discussion with Claudia Paganini, constitutional lawyer Karl Lengheimer, theologians Peter Allmaier and Victor Djan about the madness of time and faith. Moderation: Renata Schmidtkunz (ORF)
05.30 p.m.	Fresach	Break	Break	Break
06.30 p.m.	Tolerance Center	Festival of Tolerance Award Ceremony	Crazy World | Confused Souls European Tolerance Award 2025 for Human Rights of the City of Villach	Peter Fritz in conversation with former war reporter Fritz Orter.
08.00 p.m.	Private houses	Festival of Tolerance Kitchen & Chimney Talks	Madness and more Literary Interventions	With guests and participants of #ETG25.

 

06 June 2025 – ECONOMIC FORUM >> Tolerance Center Fresach

Start	Place	Frame	Subject	Speakers, Authors and Guests
09:00 a.m.	Tolerance Center	Lecture and Talk Delusion & Reality	Big Deal or C(r)ash Course Europe's answer to the transatlantic confrontation	Management consultant Michael Paul in conversation with the political scientist and U.S. expert Reinhard Heinisch
10:00 a.m.	Tolerance Center	Break	Break	Break
10:30 a.m.	Tolerance Center	Economic Forum I Free trade & changing times	Trump 2.0 - Out of the frying pan into the fire? How we deal with the new customs in international trade	With Andrew B. Denison, Anna Reindl from the Austrian Industry Association, business advicers Ralf-Wolfgang Lothert (JTI) and Lucas . Stahl. Moderation: Sonja Sagmeister-Brandner
12:00 a.m.	Fresach	Lunchtime	Lunchtime	Lunchtime
02:00 p.m.	Tolerance Center	Lecture Crazy Rich	Crazy rich and still poor: Why extremes endanger our democracy.	With supervisor, business mediator and psychotherapist Ulrich Hagg
02:30 p.m.	Tolerance Center	Economic Forum II Madness with method	Wealth without capital and assets How we reduce the increasing inequality	Panel discussion with psychotherapist Ulrich Hagg, AK expert Barbara Pegam, WKK department head Herwig Draxler and Carmen Treml from Agenda Austria. Moderation: Thomas Cik
03:30 p.m.	Fresach	Break	Break	Break
04:30 p.m.	Tolerance Center	Lecture Neulandia	Carinthia 2075: Space in Reorganization New life and work for rural regions	With start-up founder, spatial developer and visionary Frederik Fischer
05:00 p.m.	Tolerance Center	Economic Forum III Ciy, Country, Living space	Recycling instead of resource collapse How we preserve and renew the future of our livelihoods	Panel discussion with Frederik Fischer, Arch. Renate Hammer, Globalization philosopher Franz Nahrada, State Councilor Sara Schaar, and sustainability researcher Christine Ax. Moderation: Roland Gruber.
06:30-08.30 p.m.	Tolerance Center	Young Poetry Slam	The world is a madhouse: and here is the headquarter.	Young authors face the audience voting, moderated by Lukas Hofbauer.

 

07 June 2025 – POETS FORUM >> Gasthaus “zum Wirt”

Start	Place	Frame	Subject	Speakers, Authors and Guests
08:30 12:00	Gasthaus "Zum Wirt"	Tolerance Breakfast Poets' Forum	It's crazy: This tolerance breakfast Discussion topic 2026	Get-together with authors, students, interested participants and visitors.