Most recent articles by Fabian Pianka
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CrossCulture Programme celebrates ten yearsGlobal ambassadors
For the past ten years, young professionals from Islamic countries and from Germany have been able to immerse themselves in a foreign culture for three months as part of a internship programme run by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa). The programme has just celebrated its tenth anniversary. By Fabian Pianka
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International slam poetry workshop in BonnBuilding trust through slam poetry
Last October, the organisation Netzwerk politik|atelier organised a one-day poetry slam workshop entitled "Slamming für 2020" in Bonn for emerging talented poetry slammers from the Arabic-speaking world and Germany. At the end of the workshop, the participants presented their future visions of how people can live together on both sides of the Mediterranean. By Fabian Pianka
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Cultural Dialogue in GermanyOvercoming a Bloc Mind-set in East and West
At the invitation of Federal President Joachim Gauck, several thousand citizens met at Berlin's Schloss Bellevue to exchange views at the "place of encounters". Fabian Pianka depicts the current mood prevailing in Germany with regard to immigrants, how art can help in conflict situations, and the state of the dialogue with the Islamic world