[Interviews, bylined contributions, or open letters signed by individual board members do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board as a whole.]
November/December 2025 (Congress and more)
On Iran
WDR3, Resonanzen, conversation between Anette Hager and Daniela Sepehri, 18 December 2025. On the persecution of artists by the Iranian regime and on Alexander Dobrindt’s shift in migration policy: »The federal government must ask itself whether this is really the policy it wants to pursue—namely to deny protection in Germany, in Europe, to precisely those people who are committed in an outstanding way to democracy and human rights. That simply cannot be right.« LINK
On the Congress
DLF Kultur, Fazit, conversation with Deniz Yücel, 28 November 2025: »When you look at this list of speakers and participants, I don’t believe that what emerges here is a bubble.« LINK
Siegessäule, conversation by Holger Schollenberg with Kristof Magnusson and Jayrôme Robinet, 26 November 2025: »‘Simply the fact that people come together for a day without a cancel reflex or a fetish for taboo-breaking, and actually talk to one another,’ Robinet describes as his personal highlight. At PEN Berlin, Magnusson adds, it is not about performing the ‘right’ opinion in front of one’s own peer group. ‘It is genuinely about exchange—and about enduring positions one does not agree with. That we manage to do this time and again is remarkable.’« LINK