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Düzen Tekkal: The People of Iran need our Support!

13 September 2023. “I am very grateful that the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium dedicates the M100 Media Award 2023 to the freedom movement in Iran for “Woman – Life – Freedom” and it is also of special significance that a fearless woman like Shima Babaei is accepting this award on its behalf!,” says Düzen Tekkal, journalist, human rights activist and founder of HÁWAR.help. “With HÁWAR.help we have been supporting women like Shima Babaei from day 1 of the new wave of revolutionary protests that started with the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini one year ago. Like the women who are now fighting for their self-determination, Babaei challenged the regime and its systemic misogyny back in 2017 – and had to flee the country due to the life-threatening situation for her. Her father is still missing today. The people of Iran deserve to live in freedom, human dignity, and political self-determination – and they need all of our support to make this dream come true!”Together with German-Iranian actress and musician Jasmin Tabatabai and Iranian women’s rights activist and sports influencer Mersedeh Shahinkar, Düzen Tekkal will make a political statement at tomorrow’s award ceremony at the Orangery Palace in Potsdam-Sanssouci. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver the laudatory speech.

The M100 Media Award ceremony will be streamed live on 14 September from 18:00 (CET).

Jasmin Tabatabai: They are Symbol of Courage and Resilience in the World

12 September 2023. On Thursday, the M100 Media Award will be presented to the #WomenLifeFreedom movement of Iran. The Iranian women’s rights activist Shima Babaei will receive the award on behalf of the movement. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver the laudatory speech.

“With the M100 Media Award to the #WomenLifeFreedom Movement of Iran we celebrate the Iranian people, who’s women have rightfully become the symbol of courage and resilience in the world during the last year,” says German-Iranian actress and musician Jasmin Tabatabai. “Let’s honour their fight for freedom and self-determination against a brutal, medieval regime. Let’s show them, that although our politics keep failing them, we will continue our support, no matter how long it takes. We love you and we are proud of you – Zan Zendegi Azadî! !”

Jasmin Tabatabai will join human rights activist and journalist Düzen Tekkal and Iranian women’s rights activist and sports influencer Mersedeh Shahinkar to make a political statement at the award ceremony on 14 September. Mersedeh Shahinkar had her eye shot out by an Iranian policeman with a paintball last year; she has only been in Germany for two weeks.

The M100 Media Award ceremony will be streamed live on 14 September from 18:00 (CET).

In three days the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium will begin!

11 September 2023. In three days, on Thursday, 14 September, the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium will begin! Under the title “Between Ambition and Disarray – The Future of Democracy” around 70 international editors-in-chief, academics and representatives from politics and civil society will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, reasons for global democracy fatigue and the future of journalistic media in times of rapid technological progress and disinformation.
The opening speech will be delivered by Indian essayist and writer Pankaj Mishra, who became internationally known in 1995 with his non-fiction book “Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India”, will be streamed live here from 10:00am (CET).
The conference will conclude in the evening with the presentation of the prestigious M100 Media Award to the Women, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran. The award honours the courageous women and girls, but also men, who are protesting against oppression and for freedom and human rights in their home country.
Iranian women’s rights activist Shima Babaei, who has been living in exile in Belgium since 2020, will receive the prize on behalf of the movement.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will deliver the laudatory speech.
The German-Iranian actress and musician Jasmin Tabatabai, the journalist and human rights activist Düzen Tekkal and the Iranian women’s rights activist Mersedeh Shahinkar will make a strong political statement on stage.
The award ceremony will be hosted by TV presenter Pinar Atalay. The ceremony will be streamed live from 6:00pm (CET).
The M100 Media Award has been presented at the international media conference M100 Sanssouci Colloquium since 2005. Previous laureates include Lord Norman Foster, Bernard Kouchner, Bob Geldof, Ingrid Betancourt, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Kurt Westergaard, Vitali Klitschko, Charlie Hebdo, Roberto Saviano, Natalia Sindeeva, Nicola Sturgeon, Alexei Navalny and the people of Ukraine.

Covering Climate Change in Focus at the 19th M100YEJ

10 September 2023. Today the 19th M100 Young European Journalists Workshop starts, for which 20 young journalists from 14 European countries (including Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, North Macedonia, Spain and Ukraine) have been selected. Under the title “Reporting on Climate Change – and its Significance for Democracy”, the participants will spend four days discussing the following questions: “What does climate change mean for journalism? Are journalists adequately covering the climate events that are having such an impact on all our lives? Does journalism need to change to better inform the public? And how does climate change and its coverage affect our democracy?

Astrid Frohloff on the justification of the M100 Media Award to #WomenLifeFreedom

8. September 2023. Astrid Frohloff, TV presenter, journalist and M100 Advisory Board member, on the reasons for honouring the #WomenLifeFreedom movement of Iran with the M100 Media Award this year, which will be accepted by Iranian women’s rights activist Shima Babaei in Potsdam on 14 September:
“The resistance of courageous women in Iran is deeply impressive. Many women are risking their freedom and sometimes their lives to protest against decades of gender inequality and discrimination against women in Iran. M100 supports women’s struggle for fundamental freedoms by honouring the Women, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran and advocating for an immediate end to state violence and the safe release of thousands of politically imprisoned citizens.”
The laudatory speech at #WomenLifeFreedom will be held by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EU Commission. The event will be streamed live from 6 pm (CET).

M100YEJ Rina Zhubi: Climate change not a political but a scientific issue

5 September 2023. Does journalism need to change in the face of climate change – or not? This is one of the questions we asked the applicants for this year’s M100 Young European Journalism Workshop (M100YEJ), which starts next Sunday, 10 September, at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Potsdam. The answers were very diverse and are sure to spark heated discussions at the workshop.

For example, participant Rina Zhubi believes: “While the principles of objectivity and balance have long been considered the holy grail of truth-telling in journalism, the approach inadvertently creates a false balance in climate reporting, preventing the public from seeing the clear scientific picture of climate change. Climate change shouldn’t be considered a political story but a science story.”

Only two weeks to go!

31 August 2023. Two weeks from today, the 19th M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and the M100 Media Award Ceremony will take place in Potsdam!
This year’s international media conference will once again welcome high-level international representatives from the media, academia and politics to discuss the state and future of democracy in times of war and geopolitical tension, strategies for strengthening democratic resilience and the future of journalistic media in times of ChatGPT and disinformation from a global perspective in the unique historical setting of the Orangery in Sanssouci Park.

We are particularly pleased to welcome Indian bestselling author and essayist Pankaj Mishra, who will take a critical look at the Western understanding of democracy from the perspective of the Global South. Pankaj Mishra’s speech will be streamed live from 10:00 to 10:30 am (CET) on the M100 website.

Kai Diekmann on the reasons for the M100 Media Award to #WomenLifeFreedom

30 August 2023. M100 Advisory Board member Kai Diekmann on why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement of Iran was chosen to receive this year’s M100 Media Award, which will be accepted by Iranian women’s rights activist Shima Babaei on 14 September in Potsdam:
“The people of Iran – especially Iranian women and girls – have been taking to the streets for months, protesting for freedom, equality and human dignity. Against their own government, which oppresses, tortures, mutilates and murders them.
With the M100 Media Award, we want to encourage these women and men to keep going and not give up until they have defeated the mullahs and can live in free self-determination.
After the people of Ukraine, whom we honoured last year for their determined and heroic defence of their freedom and sovereignty against the brutal Russian invasion, the choice of the Women, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran this year is only logical.”

Medienboard CEO Helge Jürgens on supporting the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

28 August 2023. We would like to thank the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, which has been a strong partner of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium from the very beginning. The Medienboard ensures the national and international presentation and profiling of Berlin-Brandenburg as a film and media location, up-to-date location information, cross-border and cross-sector networking of the film and media industry and supports the settlement of film and media companies. As media-related location projects, the Medienboard promotes measures for the development, professionalisation and presentation of Berlin-Brandenburg as a film and media location.

Helge Jürgens, CEO News Media Funding Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg: “With ‘Between Ambition and Disarray – The Future of Democracy’, M100 Sanssouci Colloquium will discuss again an important current issue in the context of journalism, society and human rights. MBB is happy to support this conference and the M100 Media Award which this year will be presented to the Women, Life, Freedom movement of Iran.”

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Alexandra Borchardt on the reasons to present the M100 Media Award to #WomenLifeFreedom

21 August 2023. M100 Advisory Board member Prof. h.c. Dr Alexandra Borchardt, senior journalist, book author, lecturer, media consultant, on the decision to honour the #WomenLifeFreedom Movement of Iran with this year’s M100 Media Award:

“These women and their supporters probably know that their commitment will not end well for them personally. Yet they risk everything so that future generations can live in freedom and dignity. I salute their courage and commitment to a better world.”