NORTH ATLANTIC STUDIES
Theme night on the financial crisis in Iceland The theme night on Iceland’s financial crisis proved quite a success for Iceland’s embassy and its new ambassador, Gunnar Snorri Gunnarson who (unofficially as he had not presented his credentials to the German state yet) staged his first event at the Embassy in Berlin. The documentary about life in Iceland in the aftermath of the financial crisis was very well done. Particularly worth mentioning is that the film’s author, Christhard Läpple, succeeded in interviewing former Reykjavík mayor, former Foreign Minister of Iceland and former political star of the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin), Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, for the first time after the latter