In 1844, the poet Heinrich Heine published his satirical epic "Germany: A Winter's Tale" in verse about his journey from his French exile to Germany, which at that time still was consisted of a number of small states. Heine went to France in 1831 because he had come under political pressure in Germany because of his Jewish origins and democratic views, and his criticism of censorship and German nationalism. If you read Heine's cycle of poems today, the situation has hardly changed at all.

It has been well known for decades that planet Earth is threatened into a first class catastrophe if human beings continue to claim too much natural spaces for themselves, causing the planet's balance to become out of balance. For years now, the summer months have been marked by record heat, and the term "flood of the century" is being used more and more frequently by politicians and the media. Heat, cold, water or snow are then hold to be responsible for the damage of lives of the human beings. But the human beings themselves have opened the floodgates to destroy their own existence.

With the political goal to devalue the serious studies on the environmental situation that were carried out in the early 1970s, such as the Club of Rome's "The Limits to Growth" (1972) or the environmental study "Global 2000" (1977) commissioned by US President Carter, conservative counter-models were deliberately promoted in politics in the persons of the British Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan, an American B-movie star. In this way, an urgently needed environmental policy to save the climate and nature was prevented and serious movements for the environment and peace were successfully kept out of power.

In its May 24th, 2024 edition, the Kleine Zeitung published five pages of "fake news" to use a buzzword from the rightextreme movement of Trumpissm. On the front page, on the bottom right, there is the headline "AUSTRIA The Russian army is also using weapons from Carinthia in the Ukraine war" and then refers to the report on pages 12/13. But the search for this report is in vain, because there is the headline for another report "A child does not simply starve to death.

For Austria's Greens it was important to have a clean slate for themselves.

In 1972, the Club of Rome published the study "The Limits to Growth", and in 1977 US President Carter commissioned the environmental study "Global 2000". A number of serious ecological movements emerged. In the 1970s, Austria's Chancellor Kreisky recognized this and showed how to take the sovereign of every democracy, the electorate, seriously. On November 5, 1978, a majority rejected in a referendum the commissioning of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant and also the use of nuclear energy in Austria.

Conversation is an art of the arts, we can already experience this in Plato's dialogues. So conversation is one of the archetypes. Even politics can be an art when politics is practiced as an art and not just as a technology of power. And Plato's dialogue model proves the art of mutual complementarity. In this sense, Fra Anđeo Zvizdović and Sultan Mehmed II al-Fatih are artists because both accept the conversation and as a result they create peace. There is no peace today because we have probably forgotten how to talk.

In 1928 the novel "All Quiet On The Western Front" was published, which mercilessly analyzed the Disease War in the First World War. The novel was written by the German poet Erich Maria Remarque who became world famous in one fell swoop. The novel was filmed in 1930 by Lewis Milestone. But the Germans were alienated from the peace and, with their leader coming from Austria, Nazi-Germany also raged the Second World War, which included the German Wehrmacht’s war of extermination in Eastern Europe with the blockade of the city of Leningrad, there the Nazi erected the largest concentration camp by area. 670,000 people were killed by bombing, starvation and coldness.

For an unknown client, the retired journalist the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF and former social democratic mayor of the Carinthian district town of Wolfsberg, Dr. Gerhard Seifried wrote a text entitled with "Less university, more beer table" for the Styrian edition of the Kleine Zeitung, Austria's number two among the newsapers, to explain Carinthia's Governor Peter Kaiser why he lost the state elections in Carinthia.

With great fanfares, EU Commission President Von der Leyen presented the so-called green plan for climate protection, which, on closer inspection, is a big bluff and is now being presented with big advertising at the European Women's Football Championship EURO 2022. Nuclear power is added to green energy, the major nuclear disasters were simply ignored, such as the meltdown in Chernobyl in 1986 with reactors of Soviet design, or before in 1979 in the US nuclear power plant Three Mile Island the accident with US made nuclear reactors and most recently in 2011 in Fukushima, Japan, when core meltdowns occurred again in US made nuclear reactors,

"A strange disease has broken out, the soldiers cannot die", is a key sentence in Viktor Ullmann's anti-war opera "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death". Ullmann's opera is based on his own war experiences during the theatre of war in the valley of the river Isonzo and became a witness of the war with gas, my grandfather had to serve as part of the special forces of the k.u.k. Wehrmacht (Imperial and Royal Defence Forces) to comb through the gassed positions of the by gas murdered Italian soldiers.

In the year 1871 the Russian scientist Demtschenko published his essay "On the Irrigation of the Aralo-Caspian Lowlands to Improve the Climate of the Adjacent Countries" at the publishing house of the Kaiserliche Hofbuchhandlung Schmitzdorff in St. Petersburg. In the centre of these visions was the landscape of Siberia and its mighty rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean.

Auschwitz is and remains one of the most important places of remembrance of the Nazi terror "Do You Have Words?" was the response of Holocaust survivor Edith Gilboa when I told her about the anti-Semitic graffiti on toilet no. 2 in the basement of the memorial centre of the former concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz I.