“Three shots. Three lives lost.” – “We all need to read this!” – Renia Spiegel, the “Polish Anne Frank”, her fate and diary featured in exhibitions in Slovenia. A report as part of the “Youth Writes” project with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ, by Sofia Laul, Anja Oblak und Taisiia Khabovska: Following research into a production [...]

Discover Slovenia in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ - Überreichung der Teilnahmeurkunden zum Projekt „Jugend schreibt“ 2025 an Schülerinnen des Gimnazija Koper: Vika Viktorija Starman, Mana Rampini Florjančič, Emma Pančevska Dakič, Gaja Kejžar and Maša Mežnar researched and produced reports on the scientist Manca Peskar at the Centre for Science and Research/ZRS Koper, on Toni Vodisek, the [...]

From his early days as a footballer and the academy’s training programme, to his experiences at 1. FC Köln and Mainz 05 – in both football and carnival – what links FC Bayern Munich with NK Celje, and how Stijan Gobec, at the age of 17, fits into these stories, is consistently working on his [...]

Discover Slovenia in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ: Awarding of participation certificates as part of the "Jugend schreibt“ (Youth Writes) project at the Narodni Dom in Celje. In 2025, a total of 30 young people in Slovenia – from schools stretching from Videm pri Ptuju in the east to Koper in the south-west of the country – [...]

The Counts of Celje were a powerful noble family in the Middle Ages; today, the “Counts” of NK Celje are national football champions and come from the “sports capital of Slovenia”. How did they win the league title on the same weekend as FC Bayern Munich and well before the end of the season? What [...]

II. International Robotics Championship in German (CLILiG Robotics): Having qualified through their respective national championships, the top three primary and secondary schools from Croatia and Slovenia took part in the second edition of the International Championship. The event was hosted by Zaprešić Secondary School in Croatia on 23 April 2026. The pupils from the 12 [...]

German-Croatian Friendship Award from the German Embassy in Zagreb: You can only be awarded a Friendship Award if you have friends. So it is this network of friends as a whole that has earned the award, not just the part of it that is sometimes visible. We therefore feel extremely honoured to have received this [...]

Why literature, of all things? Why poetic verse? Is poetry difficult – or does language here simply resonate in “a rhythm you have to go along with”? How is a poem created? How do you translate it into different languages, into “bird-texts” and “pigeon-texts”? And what is the daily life of a successful, internationally active [...]

Pippi Langstrumpf in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ – 30.03.2026: „Sie hat ein Haus, ein Äffchen und ein Pferd“, und in Slowenien seit 1990 jährlich bis zu 100.000 begeisterte Gäste. Pippi Langstrumpfs Festival in Mestna občina Velenje / Municipality of Velenje ist die größte Veranstaltung für Kinder und Jugendliche in der internationalen Region. Eine Reportage über Geschichte [...]

Pippi Longstocking in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ – 30.03.2026: „“She has a house, a little monkey and a horse”, and in Slovenia, up to 100,000 enthusiastic visitors every year since 1990. The Pippi Longstocking Festival in the municipality of Velenje is the largest event for children and youths in the region. A reportage about the history [...]