{"id":8494,"date":"2020-12-03T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/?page_id=8494"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:56:40","slug":"category-culture-and-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/category-culture-and-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture and Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t50 Years of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft \u2013 Shaping the Cultural Policy Debate in Germany<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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This year marks the convergence of two significant milestones in cultural policy and for me personally: The Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft (KuPoGe) is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and its founding president, Olaf Schwencke, turned 90. He is a great role model for me in his commitment as a European politician and cultural…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t100 Years of GEDOK \u2013 Promoting Women\u2019s Perspectives in Art<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Women-only clubs and associations\u2014are they still important today? At the very least, the celebrations marking \u201c100 Years of the Association of Women Artists and Art Patrons (GEDOK)\u201d have once again clearly demonstrated to me what they can achieve. GEDOK, for example, highlights how women in the arts have historically faced…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Thanks to speaker Michael Braungart, the opening of the third L\u00fcneburg Heath Nature Film Festival provided creative ideas to combat the flood of plastic in the sea. “There are between 1400 and 40000 pieces of micro- and nanoplastics in an oyster. If we eat enough oysters, the oceans will be…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Insults, sexist remarks and death threats: What women (and men) experience on social media today is nothing new. In the film \u201cPetra Kelly – Act now\u201d, it becomes clear how the activist was already exposed to constant verbal abuse in the 1980s, before the internet existed. This is one of…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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China maintained its position as Germany’s largest trading partner last year, just ahead of the USA. At 253.1 billion euros, imports and exports were slightly higher than trade in goods with the USA (252.3 billion euros). The trip, which was organized by the Economic Forum of the Social Democratic Party…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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One can only be torn. On the one hand, while we are in Georgia with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DAGP), tens of thousands of people have been on the streets for over a month protesting against the law \u201con foreign agents\u201d. It was passed on May 28 against…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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How surprised we are, the participants of an exploratory trip about biodiversity, when in the restaurant “Chez Julien” in Paunat in the P\u00e9rigord, the writer and journalist Martin Walker actually appears. Martin Walker is Scottish and has had a varied professional life. He is the author of the million-selling Bruno…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Olaf Lies freely admitted that he didn’t have the easiest of jobs. Monika Griefahn’s “successor-successor-successor”, as the current environment minister of the German federal state of Lower Saxony smirkingly described himself, said: “You can’t list all of Monika Griefahn’s merits \u2013 you can only mention the highlights.” Lies was speaking…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Winners and organizers of the eco film tour 2018. It is a very gratifying task to serve on the jury of the \u00d6kofilmtour (“eco film tour”) festival for films about nature and the environment. Every year I get to watch around 40 great documentary and feature…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Congratualtions by Uwe-Karsten Heye and Monika Griefahn, Willy-Brandt-Haus Berlin. Foto: Florian Gaertner\/photothek.net “Nothing is finished” \u2013 that’s the motto under which Klaus Staeck invited guests to celebrate his 80th birthday at the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin. More precisely it was the Social Democratic Party’s executive, who organised…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Margaret AtwoodPhoto: Monika Griefahn “Trees wouldn\u2019t vote for Trump…” – that\u2019s how the forester and author Peter Wohlleben summarised his view on the current political landscape. Trees, he says, know that they can only survive as part of a group….\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Monika Griefahn in 2015 at the award ceremony of the German “Computerspielpreis”.Photo (archives): Franziska Krug\/Getty Images for Quinke Networks Just ahead of the recent general elections the German Cultural Council issued a gratifying news release: “The Chancellor and the Secretaries-General of the CDU, SPD, Greens, the…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Photograph: Franziska Krug\/Getty Images for Emotion.award Dr. Alexandra Widmer? Heike Langguth? Annette Pascoe? None of them are names necessarily known to everyone. And yet all of these women have recently received the Emotion Award in Germany. It’s an award that recognised women who inspire others. For…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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50 Years of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft \u2013 Shaping the Cultural Policy Debate in Germany 18 May 2026 This year marks the convergence of two significant milestones in cultural policy and for me personally: The Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft (KuPoGe) is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and its founding president, Olaf Schwencke, turned 90. He is a great role model for me in his commitment as a European politician and cultural… Read more 100 Years of GEDOK \u2013 Promoting Women\u2019s Perspectives in Art 22 March 2026 Women-only clubs and associations\u2014are they still important today? At the very least, the celebrations marking \u201c100 Years of…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"Anne Bremer","url":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/author\/abremer\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"square-entry-image":false,"vertical-entry-image":false,"horizontal-entry-image":false,"blog-entry-image":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Anne Bremer","author_link":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/author\/abremer\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8516,"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8494\/revisions\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}