Marathonika man Anže Zavrl has mastered the ‘played marathon’: the 37-year-old Slovenian holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon run while playing an accordion, set on 19 October 2025 at the Ljubljana City Marathon, with a time of 4 hours, 26 minutes and 23 seconds: ‘Officially Amazing’. How does someone come up with [...]

„A life as a marathon run“ – Kazimira Lužnik was born in 1934 into a family of musicians in the village of Kanal on the Soča River, which was then part of Italy; she witnesses World War II, works as an X-ray technician, builds a ‘little paradise’ with her husband, a paediatrician, and has been [...]

„The Diary of Anne Frank“ – on stage at the Peter Simoniti Theatre in Celje: Why is an amateur theatre company staging this world-famous document right now? How has the text been adapted for the production? How is it being staged? What are the main focuses? What audience does the production appeal to? A talk [...]

Youth makes music, researches and writes - Sunday, 30.11.2025, Ljubljana: A day of research with the Slovenian Youth Orchestra; in talks with founder and director Živa Ploj Peršuh, with participation in the concert rehearsal (11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) with 35 young people, including ten from Ukraine, who are professionally trained and therefore relaxed when [...]

Kickboxing, Motorcycling and Protestantism - The Protestant Church in Slovenia represents about one percent of the population, yet Reformation Day is one of the country's biggest holidays. Leon Novak, Protestant Bishop of Slovenia, in a talk at the Martin Luther Church in Murska Sobota on 24 November 2025: About the clergyman's youth, his family and [...]

Accordion world champion from Slovenia – Even a wasp sting can't throw her off her rhythm. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ, 24.11.2025: About Tjaša Lesjak, the first world champion on the diatonic accordion. Her career, the instrument created especially for her, her musical preferences, the role of Slovenian folk music, national and international awards, and the key [...]

Discover Slovenia in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ 3.11.2025: with Slovenian contributions from the FAZ project ‘Jugend schreibt’ (Youth Writes) at the Osrednja knjižnica Celje, by Samo Seničar, Vice Mayor of Municipality of Celje. All contributions to the Slovenian project are displayed on 40 DIN A1 boards on the day of the grand opening, which also marks [...]

Elvis lives, strangely enough in Slovenia, today, 3 November 2025, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ: About the programme ‘KUD Mesarija Elvis’ in the ‘Culture and Arts Department of Elvis Butchers Shop’ by the actor Renato Jenček from Celje; about the stage character in his solo comedy, his role models Elvis Presley and Oskar Trobec, and [...]

Discover Slovenia in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ: Kick-off for the new project year „Jugend schreibt“ (Youth Writes) at Hotel Celjska koča, 20. – 21.10.2025 At the invitation of the Municipality of Celje, city director Gregor Deleja, 28 students and teachers from a total of 8 schools in Celje, Maribor, Velenje and Videm pri Ptuju attended the [...]

Robotics - Language Acquisition - CLIL - International Cooperation: Rhineland-Palatinate/RLP in Slovenia – Continuation of educational cooperation in the context of CLIL Robotics with funding from Erasmus+. Organised by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Institute of Education (organisation: Kristina Fischer) nehmen unter Leitung von Christian Hennicke and Axel Karger 13 teachers from primary, secondary and grammar schools participate [...]