Should Peter Thiel speak at the Vienna Festival? After days of criticism online and elsewhere, those responsible for the festival asked themselves this question in a separate event before the actual planned event. In the well-filled Odeon Theater, where the debate format “Faith Tribunal” is taking place this weekend, festival director Milo Rau, dramaturge Sara Abbasi, political scientist Monika Mokre and theologian Wolfgang Palaver sat down at the podium to face the critical public.
