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The WAR OR PEACE Festival was covered by five young journalists of the European Youth Press. They are going to publish articles and interviews of the Festival in the Orange Magazine of the EYP. Here, they give you short impression of who they are and what they do. Stay tuned... Read More

Lessons from the cradle of propaganda – We visited the workshop Propaganda : Civic education, in which participants are confronted with propaganda posters from the inter-war period and are challenged to reelaborate them, with the aim of further understanding the nuances in political communication of the present day.

The Italian journalist Francesco Lanzone of the European Youth Press interviewed the dramaturg and organiser of the WAR AND PEACE Festival Mazlum Nergiz. Read the full interview here.    How did you get involved with the work of the Gorki Theater? I work for Gorki since 2014. I studied comparative... Read More

The opening ceremony on Wednesday night marked the official beginning of the WAR OR PEACE – Crossroads of History Festival in Berlin. The colourful and diverse ceremony welcomed all participants from near and far to the WAR OR PEACE Campus at the Gorki Theatre in Berlin. English-language journalist Laila Harrak... Read More

Day three at the festival. A lot of side activities took place – exhibitions, city tours, theatre and arts sessions as well as various other interactive formats – and off course, the workshops continues:  

History may be set in stone, but the game of ‘Textura’ is not. Masquerading as a board-game, it aims to explore history in a fun, interactive manner all the while promoting narrative competence. There are several tiles in the game which can be divided into two sets – content cards... Read More

We attended the workshop “Good Peace : Bad Peace” and learnt about the delicate balance between self-determination and realpolitik. From the outcome of the Paris Conference to the rise of independentist movements in the last decades, the question of self-determination and its practical application in the organization of political communities remains... Read More

Day two of the festival – the 20 workshops started. The participants explore various #WARORPEACE-topics in order to shed light on contrasts and narratives of the events in and after 1918 and their meaning for today, with innovative and unusual methods and an intensive working atmosphere. Get some impressions:

A Portal into an Unknown World – Have you heard of SHARED_STUDIOS yet? No? Then it’s about time! According to the SHARED_STUDIOS’ founder Amar Bakshi, the project aims at creating a global network of publicly accessible one-on-one booths. In golden containers people from all over the world can talk about... Read More

  We are very excited, the festival just started. Get a few impressions of our first festival day #WARORPEACE and the opening ceremony at Gorki theatre. 

The countdown is on! It’s only a few days to the official start of “WAR OR PEACE. Crossroads of History 1918 | 2018”. Apart from the workshops, we will have an interesting cultural programme organised by the Maxim Gorki Theatre and various side activities. The videobus tours for example will... Read More