This event will take place in German.

Triggered by the numerous allegations of abuse against the producer Harvey Weinstein, just under a year ago, countless women and men around the world expressed their solidarity under the hashtag #MeToo and reported on their experiences with abuse, harassment and assaults. The resulting debate over abuse of power and sexualized violence, especially against women, has also become an issue in the European Parliament. MEP Terry Reintke herself reported on an incident and launched a petition...

At the EU summit in late June, Heads of State and Government adopted a series of decisions aimed at tightening migration policy. The new Italian government wants to reduce the number of arriving refugees to zero and Malta also repeatedly denied the entry of ships with rescued boat people. The situation for rescue organizations like SOS MEDITERRANEE, which uses civilian ships to rescue people from distress, has changed radically in recent months. Despite this, the...

"Democracies live off public debate and criticism. Anyone who polishes or even incites uncomfortable journalists and casts doubt on the credibility of the media deliberately destroys the foundations of a democratic society," said Stern's long-time correspondent in Moscow and Washington and ROG executive spokeswoman Katja Gloger. Media-hostile hate speech as a state program has long ceased to be restricted to repressive regimes such as those in Turkey or Egypt, where governments defame and persecute critical...

The world is becoming more complicated, the amount of information is increasing and its distribution is growing rapidly, even beyond known and established channels. Even the public service broadcasters are present with numerous offers on the Internet - but these are also used? Together with the Hertie Innovation College of the non-profit Hertie Foundation, we cordially invite you to this lecture from the series "Democracy and Media" followed by a discussion. "It is our mission...

77 tapes were created in talks with his mother Marie in the 1990s about her survival in the Nazi period in Berlin underground. They produced a transcript of more than 1,000 pages from which Hermann Simon, together with the author Irene Stratenwerth, developed and published an autobiographical report. Marie Simon died on 16th September 1998 in Berlin. What does it mean to have to get through every day in National Socialist Berlin? You need false...

"At the end of our experience, we are far from being!" Hermann Horwitz immediately after winning the championship of his club Hertha BSC 1930 in an article. Horwitz (* 1885 in Prenzlauer Berg) is a military doctor in the First World War and from the season 1923/24 sports doctor with Hertha BSC, which became a German champion with him in 1930 and 1931. His association excludes Horwitz on September 26th, 1938 - 80 years ago....

The amount of information and the number of distributing platforms is constantly increasing. But where do the important, societal debates still take place today - and how are they managed? In democracies, media fulfill basic functions: They are intended to inform the population, to contribute to public opinion formation through diversity of opinion, criticism and discussion and thus to enable participation. This applies in particular to the public service media. In various formats with long...

Growing right-wing populism, a brutalization of public and political debate, the fear of a crisis of democracy - for Nico Hofmann, one of the most prominent players in the European film and television world, are the important reasons to get involved in the debate right now, to take a stance and to live them in everyday life: As a citizen, as an artist, but also as the head of the UFA, which, as Germany's largest...

She was born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia as Gisela Friedmann. One year before the end of the war, in May 1944, Gisela Friedmann got off the train at the ramp to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her father was sent to a forced labor camp, the mother, her sister and she in barrack 16 of the C-camp. Until October 1944, the women managed to stay together, then the daughters were transported to the labor camp Mittelsteine, the mother remained...