Talk Series: Digitaler Salon

Digitaler Salon: Podcast

Join us live or watch online

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) organises the Digitaler Salon at its own offices every last Wednesday of the month. After the talks, you can have pleasant conversations while enjoying cidre and pretzels.

You can't be physically present? Just watch the live stream on our website. Afterwards all broadcasts will also be published as videos. On Twitter you can find the salon under the hashtag #DigSal.

You find recordings of past events on the specific page of the event. The Livestream is only available 6.50 pm of the day of the event, on the start page and on the current event page.

Past Events

Guests of the Digitaler Salon

To discuss the effects of digitalisation on our society, we are seeking discussions with selected personalities of our time. Below you will find a selection of guests from politics, science, media, business and civil society who have already debated in the Digitaler Salon:

• Julian Adenauer, creative engineer, director Retune Festival
• Markus Beckedahl, network policy activist and journalist, netzpolitik.org
• Miriam Davoudvandi, journalist, podcast "Danke, gut."
• Arno Deister, Chief Physician of the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine of the Itzehoe Hospital and President of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology
• Anke Domscheit-Berg, entrepreneur, publicist and activist, Refugee Hackathon
• Jörg Dräger, Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung
• Maria Exner, Deputy Chief Editor, ZEIT ONLINE
• Andreas Gebhard, founder and managing director, re:publica
• Juna Grossmann, blogger, irgendwiejuedisch.com
• Lea Gscheidel, Undertaker, Re.Designing Death Movement
• Matthias Heeder, documentary filmmaker, PreCrime
• Lorena Jaume-Palasí, co-founder and managing director, AlgorithmWatch
• Martin Kohlstedt, producer and musician
• Katika Kühnreich, political scientist and sinologist
• Constanze Kurz, computer scientist and speaker, Chaos Computer Club
• Daniel Moßbrucker, Speaker for Internet Freedom, Reporters without Borders
• Tarik Tesfu, video blogger, Tarik's gender crisis
• Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, former President of the Humboldt University of Berlin
• Sophie Passmann, author & radio presenter
• Haya Shulman, Head of Department Cybersecurity Analytics and Defences, Fraunhofer SIT