Freiraum videos
Here you will find a compilation of the films made within the context of the Freiraum project. Among them: "Citizens of Europe" by the journalist Kostas Argyros.
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Chain Reaction: Thinking across Europe
Intellectuals in a thought experiment: every essay ends with a question, which another participant of the project "Freiraum" should discuss in an essay. On August 21, Ainhoa Achutegui answered Nora Gomringer's question and put her question to the next author.
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Cecilia Hansson
Stockholm
May 16th 2018Are we living in a really post-fascist Europe, a Europe as we want it to be?
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Nikita Dhawan
Innsbruck
June 16th 2018The democratizing forces at work in Europe are offset by nationalisms, racisms, and exclusions, so that the promise of a post-fascist Europe reveals itself to be a missed appointment with history.more
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Nikita Dhawan
Innsbruck
June 16th 2018How can one fight gender and economic injustice worldwide without reinforcing European hegemony...
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Iskra Geshoska
Skopje
July 5th 2018The struggle for economic, political, cultural and gender equality and liberty must be consistent, constant, adequate to each context individually, and needs to create a sense of belonging, unity and emancipation.more
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Iskra Geshoska
Skopje
July 5th 2018Has freedom become only discursive, empty of semantic value in a world which is imprisoned by economical, ideological and political injustice?
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Nora Gomringer
Bamberg
July 26th 2018The concept of peace has not been lost so long as people who carry it in their minds, on their lips and on their flags and helmets...more
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Nora Gomringer
Bamberg
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Ainhoa Achutegui
Luxembourg
August 21th 2018It is above all civil society that is qualified to ensure, and indeed responsible for, the future of freedom in Europe. This responsibility cannot and must not be delegated blindly.more
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Ainhoa Achutegui
Luxembourg
August 21th 2018Is the liberal principle of “my body, my choice” still guaranteed in today’s Europe?
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Samuel Hamen
Heidelberg
September 14th 2018A guarantee of sovereign power over your own body, according to the Luxembourg journalist and writer Samuel Hamen, has so far been more utopia than reality. more
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Samuel Hamen
Heidelberg
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Andreas Degkwitz
Berlin
October 11th 2018Freedom and responsibility are directly related – but we often do not care to admit it. Those who desire freedom without assuming responsibility run the risk of restricting the freedom of others as much as they do their own. Freedom is therefore charged with preconditions. more
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Andreas Degkwitz
Berlin
October 11th 2018Can the decisions of "artificial intelligence" based on algorithms better guarantee freedom in the long run than human beings?
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Rasmus Ohlenschlaeger
Copenhagen
November 5th 2018Nothing can guarantee freedom – not algorithms, artificial intelligence, or human beings. Freedom is something we negotiate with ourselves and our social and political surroundings on an everyday basis against a horizon of unlimited, but unattainable ideals. more
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Rasmus Ohlenschlaeger
Copenhagen
November 5th 2018If we assume that freedom of information and freedom of speech is a collective challenge, who or where is the collective?
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Despina Zefkili
Athens
January 10th 2019When we think of coalitions that combine social justice and equality we reassert the possibilities of organizing more open and democratic digital societies.more
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Despina Zefkili
Athens
January 10th 2019What kind of new coalitions of commitment can we think to enhance the professional situation and freedom of art laborers?
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Elnathan John
Berlin
March 7th 2019Artists who enjoy the privilege of not having their art being questioned as labor can commit to improving the welfare of all artists by using their privilege to make a stand for fellow art laborers who have not attained this status.more
Our partners
42 Goethe Institutes from various European countries are participating in the "Freiraum" project. In order to obtain better information about the situation on the ground, they work intensively with local partners. These are theatres, art centres, NGOs, universities, associations and local initiatives.
An overview of our partners can be found here.