ABOUT CULTURE COUNTS
Culture Counts is an international project and network where journalists, researchers and educators work together. Our topics are cultural diversity and its chances, successful diversity management and constructive contemplation of differentness. Diversity is part of everyone: That is why Culture Counts focuses on portraits of people in economics and society who live together respectfully and interculturally. We develop innovative journalistic concepts like the "24-hour Interview Marathon", the "KulturProfil" ("CultureProfile") and the "Trendbuch Diversity" ("Trendbook Diversity").
Culture Counts Reporting We report on organisations, companies and places where different and diverse people live together constructively and respectfully. In Germany and all over the world. These feature stories are published in newspapers and magazines, broadcasted on radio and tv, on internet platforms, in form of exhibitions.
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Culture Counts Baden-Württemberg "One Federal State - many homelands": The cultural diversity in Baden-Württemberg is shown in thoroughly researched texts and pictures of renowned photographers of "Zeitenspiegel", a network of journalists based in Stuttgart-Weinstadt. The results are published in quality media and as an exhibition accompanied by educational schemes in the whole of Germany. This exhibition was developed in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Reutlingen (the adult education centre in Reutlingen).
Interview Marathon "What is foreign?" 2007 Contact with everything foreign, sometimes inquisitive, sometimes anxious, was the most important topic of the conversations. Among others Gerd Ruge (TV journalist), Seyran Ates (human rights activist and writer), Julian Nida-Rümelin (philosopher and politician), André Sarasani (circus manager), Pepe Danquart (director and Oscar-winner) and Ilija Trojanow (writer) participated. Interviewer: Michael Gleich and Peter Felixberger.
Interview Marathon "What is German?" 2009 The 60th birthday of the Federal Republic of Germany is a good occasion to ask: How far on the path to a cosmopolitan society has Germany come today? Interviews among others with President of the German Bundestag Norbert Lammert, Marianne Birthler (agent of the former secret police "Stasi"), Jürgen Fliege (priest and talkshow presenter), Thomas Reiter (astronaut), Zafer Senocak (writer), Sung Hyung-Cho (director), Eric T. Hansen (journalist), Wolfgang Schmidbauer (psychoanalyst and writer). Interviewers: Michael Gleich and Dr. Hajo Schumacher.