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 studies in Vienna, about the bishop’s administration, the role of the church in the past and in the digital age, and about Primož Trubar, the Slovenian language and national identity. And what Tübingen-Derendingen in Baden-Württemberg has to do with it.
An interview as part of the ‘Jugend schreibt’ (Youth Writes) project with the  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ, by Jure Fekonja and Mateja Petek, II. gimnazija Maribor. Coordination/Photos: INSTITUT DISCIMUS LAB.