Updates
Shoe craft
15
Jul
Discover Slovenia´s Hidden Gems in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ, 14.07.2025 - Shoe craft, design, nature and international cooperation:Hidden away in north-eastern Slovenia lies Lake Blaguš, and there, integrated into the natural surroundings, is Mario Herzog's workshop and studio. Here, you can learn and experience how shoes are made in the traditional way using historical tools and [...]
Judoka Tina Trstenjak
15
Jul
Discover Slovenian Sportspeople in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ, 7.7.2025: Tina Trstenjak – European Champion, World Champion and Olympic Gold Medallist at the same time. About Slovenia's most successful judoka, her origins, the start and course of her career, the sacrifices involved, the joy of silver and gold medal successes, respect for opponents, judo as a way [...]
Oberkrainer
04
Jun
Original with Oberkrainer – „Jugend schreibt“ (Youth writes) in Begunje/Slovenia At the “Woodstock of brass music”, they got 25,000 fans in the proper mood; their headquarters in Begunje is regarded by some as the “Vatican of folk music”, and cover versions of their music are also played with Japanese lyrics: How did the world career [...]
Elvis is alive – in Slovenia
20
May
Elvis is alive - in Slovenia! A three-hour meeting with actor Renato Jenček, on the stage of the Plesni Forum/Dance Forum Celje: About the programme ‘KUD Mesarija Elvis’ in the ‘Culture and Art Department of the Elvis Butcher's Shop’, about the stage character of this solo comedy, its creation and the role models Elvis Presley [...]
Pippi Longstocking Festival Velenje
14
May
Discover Slovenia in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ: She has a house, a small monkey and a horse, her own multiplication table and over 1.6 million visitors in Slovenia to date: Every year, Pippi Longstocking attracts new guests to the festival named after her in Velenje - the largest festival for children and youth in the international [...]
Jewish life in Slovenia
05
May
Discover Slovenia in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ - 5.5.2025: Jewish life in Slovenia. How Robert Waltl discovered his own roots and hidden traces in the ‘most beautiful street in the most beautiful city in the world’, about history and how he works against forgetting it. The role played by Slovenian presidents and Oscar winner Branko Lustig, [...]
First International CLIL Robotics Championship
25
Apr
First International CLIL Robotics Championship - Tehno park Celje, 24.4.2025: The project for the early promotion of robotics and communication (DaF) from a European perspective took place under the patronage of the German embassies in Ljubljana and Zagreb. The first competition organised by INSTITUT DISCIMUS LAB/DISCL, with the Municipality of Celje / Mestna Občina Celje, [...]
Let there be light.
22
Apr
“Let there be light!” - Discover Slovenian Art and Artists in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ: 22.04.2025: Oto Rimele - "Laibach"-Guitarist - Miles Davis interpreter - visual artist with light installations - professor of art history at the University of Maribor and more. A life with and for art. A reportage in the context of the project [...]
Walking the “Walk of Peace”
17
Apr
Walking the "Walk of Peace" - cross-border Slovenian-Italian cooperation and far beyond. Maša Klavora, Slovenian director, and a representative of the ‘Walk of Peace’ team in an interview with ‘Jugend schreibt’. The interview takes place on the border between the two countries, in the binational European Capital of Culture Gorizia/Nova Gorica. The "Walk of Peace" [...]
Kitesurfing with FAZ
17
Apr
Toni Vodišek in Koper/Slowenien – „Kitesurfing with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ“ The silver medallist of the 2024 Olympic Games in an interview with ‘Jugend schreibt’. About a cheerful, informative, exceptional sportsman, his beginnings and successes, about equipment and technique, about taking off, staying down and ‘body weight as sports equipment’, about the best weather, the best [...]