Category: Human Touch

Andrei Ivanovich says “yes” to life

“Nevertheless say yes to life” – Viktor Frankl, the famous psychiatrist and founder of logotherapy, who survived four concentration camps, chose this refrain from from Buchenwald as the title for his book. Andrei Ivanovich has not written any books yet. But he lives by this motto every day. Source

From educator to Corona detective

Heidelberg. The pandemic turned theatre pedagogue Dirk Kaufmann from Erbach into the Heidelberg “Corona Detective”: He is one of hundreds of “containment scouts” throughout Germany who trace chains of infection. Source

Sweden and racism: exemplary or flawed?

Jorge María Londoño has wavy hair that reaches almost to the shoulder and wears a loose black T-shirt. Since 2018, Londoño has chaired Youth Against Racism (Ungdom mot rasism – UMR), one of the most prominent anti-racist organisations in Sweden. We meet virtually to talk about the country’s colonial heritage and life “after George Floyd.”…
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