Vom 21. Juni bis zum 5. Juli atmeten 24 Jugendliche aus der Ukraine an der französischen Atlantikküste durch: Sie lernten surfen und arbeiteten mit Psychologinnen daran, ihre Kriegstraumata zu bewältigen. Der European-Utopia-Partner “Kultur.Konvoi” hatte das Projekt erdacht und mitorganisiert, seine Spenderinnen möglich gemacht.
Die menschenverachtenden und antisemitischen Greueltaten der Hamas vom 7. Oktober 2023 sind durch nichts zu rechtfertigen. Doch auch das militärische Vorgehen Israels bedeutet eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Eine Klarstellung von European Utopia zur dystopischen Lage im Nahen Osten.
In February 2025, we called for a vote on the next European Utopia campaign. Now the result of the vote is clear: we will be travelling by train together! On 18 October, we will cross nonsensical barriers with a wagon-worthy cultural programme and travel from Munich to Bolzano. A double border experience to celebrate 30 years of Schengen.
Eine Sozialpsychologin, ein Musiker, ein Journalist und ein Ex-Profi diskutieren kurz vor der Fußball-EM 2024 über Zusammenhalt, Rassismus und Fahnenschwenken. Bringen uns sportliche Nationen-Wettkämpfe zusammen? Oder entzweien sie? Und warum spielen Frauen und Männer getrennt voneinander? Das “Best of” unseres EM-Talks im Münchner “Taubenschlag” als Podcast und in Bildern.
European Utopia e.V. invites you to the opening talk of the European Championship on June 6 at 8 pm. We will be discussing with great guests at the bar of the Munich pub “Taubenschlag” at Schulstraße 15 in Neuhausen.
Als Utopist*innen blicken wir fassungslos und voller Trauer auf die Ereignisse in Israel. Hamas-Terroristen haben am 7. Oktober mehr als tausend Frauen, Männer, Kinder und Tanzende gefoltert, umgebracht oder verschleppt. Die Motive der Angreifer waren Nationalismus, Judenhass und religiöser Fanatismus. Wer das als Freiheitskampf betrachtet, verrät die Prinzipien von Freiheit, Gleichheit, Schwester- und Brüderlichkeit. Unsere Gedanken sind bei den Opfern und Hinterbliebenen sowie bei allen, die sich für die Rechte und Würde aller Menschen und für die Demokratie einsetzen.
Filme, Fotokunst, Livemusik – und eine denkwürdige Migrationsdebatte. Das waren die European Utopia/Dystopia Days im EineWeltHaus München.
European Utopia e.V. invites you to Munich’s EineWeltHaus - to the photo exhibition by Dirk Bruniecki, film evenings and a party on 20 September.
20 September
You are cordially invited to the midissage and talk round with party and concert by Cosmica Bandida!
5 to 11 pm in the large hall of the EineWeltHaus, Schwanthalerstr. 80, 80336 Munich, admission free.
Die Wärme entweicht mit kläglichem Zischen
Aus allen Gesprächen mit Schlussapplaus.
Wörter haben einen Bleigeschmack,
Wenn über Schützengräben die Floskeln fliegen,
Tödlich wie die Haubitzen.
Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg, und du schwiegest dazu.
Oder weintest über den Leopard.
Dachtest an das Schrapnell,
Das sich schmatzend in ihre Körper bohrt.
Anstatt zu sagen, was du nicht weißt.
Without many words
Today is a day of mourning. Nationalist blindness is killing again in Europe. Our sympathy goes out to the victims. We grieve with all those who stand up for peace, democracy and human rights.
The first in-house production made possible by European Utopia e.V. is set in Auschwitz. It made the front page of the daily newspaper Haaretz in Israel and the FAZ feuilleton in Germany.
Clay, not shards: How Stephan Winkler created the animation that makes Europe nicer.
Sebastian Kurz has resigned. Since 2017, the man from Vienna caused a lot of damage and shook trust in the political culture. It started when he formed a coalition with the far-right FPÖ to become Austria’s chancellor. His coalition railed against immigration and formed a nationalist alliance with Hungary, Poland and Slovakia in the EU. Kurz accused the South of wastefulness and played the role of frugal teacher-in-chief, while corruption thrived at home. In 2019, the government collapsed because vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache allowed himself to be filmed doing politics: drunk in the back room. After the re-election and a coalition with the Greens (!), it came out how Kurz did politics: via low-level smartphone messages. Vienna’s Burgtheater and Der Standard have turned the embarrassing chat protocols of the opportunistic clique into art - the grandiosely simple production can be seen and heard online here.
Toby Binder, Eva-Maria Feilkas and Jörg Fokuhl each gave us a motif for this website. Many thanks for that! In this section the three photographers talk about their work from Belfast, Greece and Munich - and explain why they support European Utopia e.V..
2021 begins with sad news that has been known for a long time: Great Britain has left the EU. The Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016 was an anticlimax in the history of European integration. Even the conservative columnist Nikolaus Blome commented on Spiegel Online with “anger instead of melancholy”. Those who are less pessimistic will at least find this consolation: Brexit is forcing pro-Europeans to seriously consider what kind of Europe they actually want. Reform the EU? Or create a true transnational democracy? Oxford professor Timothy Garton Ash, who once described Brexit as a nightmare, naturally continues to think European (like most Britons), as his essay in Prospect magazine shows. He calls for a “new liberalism” that takes the Enlightenment and human rights seriously, not only the freedom of the market. If Europe succeeded in a renaissance in this sense, it would be armed against populist splits, safer and more successful than any unjust state.
A better world is possible - or isn’t it? This question has occupied philosophers and scientists for ages and ages. To our prospective European utopians, we recommend six standard works as a basis for discussion.
August 2019, eight friends of a better Europe (and one kindergarden-aged witness) have just founded European Utopia in Munich. What started small, went steadily forward. Since February 2021, this website is online - and new members, donors and supporters are always welcome (more under WHO WE ARE)!
Donation account at GLS Bank:
European Utopia e.V.
IBAN: DE02 4306 0967 1112 6290 00
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
The non-profit association European Utopia e.V.
was founded on 1 August 2019 in Munich and
entered in the register of associations on 22 April 2020.
Click here for the statutes.
