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Audio Archive Podcast – Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.
For more than three decades, we have been conducting interviews with philosophers, authors, activists, and scientists worldwide. Our interviewees explain the complex developments of our time and place them in an easily understandable and contemporary context within the global framework.
The Audio Archive Podcasts focus neither on mass media uniformity nor on unreflective pack journalism, but on differentiating insights: enlightening, knowledgeable and free from economic interests.
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Audio Archive Podcast – Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.
For more than three decades, we have been conducting interviews with philosophers, authors, activists, and scientists worldwide. Our interviewees explain the complex developments of our time and place them in an easily understandable and contemporary context within the global framework.
The Audio Archive Podcasts focus neither on mass media uniformity nor on unreflective pack journalism, but on differentiating insights: enlightening, knowledgeable and free from economic interests.
All Audio Archive podcasts are free. No revenue is generated through advertising. No AI support.
More details about the project, background informations, articles, video shorts, essays and more you'll find on our webpage www.audio-archiv.com
Episodes

Apr 3, 2026
Apr 3, 2026
50 min
🎓 Der Journalist Peter Kreysler beleuchtet Viktor Orbáns Aufstieg und seine Strategien zur Umgestaltung Ungarns von einem Verfassungsstaat zu einer Autokratie. Die über einjährige Recherche gewährt tiefe Einblicke, wie Viktor Orbáns über die Fidesz Partei Medien kontrolliert, Stiftungen instrumentalisiert und internationale Allianzen mit rechtsradikalen Kräften in Europa und den USA schmiedet. Vorbild des Staatsumbaus Ungarns sind China und Russland. International gefördert wird er durch die faschistische MAGA Bewegung Donald Trumps. Ungarn entwickelte sich so, finanziert durch die EU selbst, mitten in Europa zu einem rechtsradikalen Modellstaat. Wie ihr ungarisches Vorbild verfolgen dessen Nachahmer in Europa - die deutsche AFD, der französischen Rassemblement National bis zur spanischen VOX - dasselbe Ziel: Die Beseitigung der liberalen Demokratien in Europa. Anstelle dessen sollen nationalistische Führerstaaten entstehen, die sich rassistisch legitimieren, dessen Medien gleichgeschaltet, dessen demokratische Opposition mundtot und dessen Parlamente lediglich Feigenblätter sind.
🎓 Journalist Peter Kreysler examines Viktor Orbán’s rise to power and his strategies for transforming Hungary from a constitutional state into an autocracy. More than a year of research provides deep insights into how Viktor Orbán, through the Fidesz party, controls the media, exploits foundations, and forges international alliances with far-right forces in Europe and the United States. China and Russia serve as models for Hungary’s state restructuring. Internationally, it is promoted by Donald Trump’s fascist MAGA movement. Thus, financed by the EU itself, Hungary has developed into a far-right model state in the heart of Europe. Like their Hungarian role model, its imitators in Europe—from Germany’s AfD and France’s Rassemblement National to Spain’s VOX—pursue the same goal: the elimination of liberal democracies in Europe. In their place, nationalist leader-states are to emerge that legitimize themselves through racism, whose media are brought into line, whose democratic opposition is silenced, and whose parliaments serve as mere fig leaves.
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- Die Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) ist eine gemeinnützige Organisation, die die Menschenrechte aller Menschen in der Europäischen Union schützt. Wir sind als Nichtregierungsorganisation in Berlin registriert und haben eine Präsenz in Brüssel. Wir akzeptieren keine Förderungen von staatlichen Stellen, Agenturen oder anderen Einrichtungen, die sich in deren Besitz oder unter deren Kontrolle befinden, auch dann nicht, wenn sie als unabhängig dargestellt werden. / The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) is a watchdog that safeguards the human rights of everyone in the European Union. We are registered as a non-governmental organisation in Berlin and have a presence in Brussels. We do not accept funding from government entities, agencies, or other bodies owned or controlled by them, regardless of whether they are presented as independent.
- Das Budapest Verfahren gegen Antifaschist:innen in Budapest. Ein Dossier dazu hier / The Budapest Trial against Anti-Fascists in Budapest. A dossier on the case can be found here
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