M100 Media Award

On the occasion of the international conference M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, the M100 Media Award is presented during a gala evening. The award laureates are selected and nominated by the members of the M100 Advisory Board.

The symbolic prize is intended as “prize of the European press“. It is awarded to personalities who are committed to strengthening democracy, freedom of expression and freedom of the press as well as to European understanding.

All previous awardees, laudators and keynote speakers of the award ceremony including the complete speeches can be found here.

M100 Media Award 2022: Wladimir Klitschko

M100 Media Award 2022: Tania Skyba, Olga Kuk, Wladimir Klitschko

M100 Media Award 2022: Ali ASlan, Mike Schubert, Olaf Scholz, Wladimir Klitschko, Amy Gutman, Donald Tusk

M100 Media Award 2022: Olaf Scholz, Wladimir Klitschko, Mike Schubert

M100 Media Award 2022: Press conference Wladimir Klitschko, Mike Schubert

M100 Media Award 2022: Wladimir Klitschko, Olaf Scholz, Amy Gutman, Mike Schubert, Donald Tusk

M100 Media Award 2019 to Nicola Sturgeon

Award Ceremony 2019 with Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble as political keynote speaker

M100 Media Award 2018 with Jann Jakobs, Deniz Yücel and Ines Pohl

M100 Media Award 2018 with Jann Jakobs, Ines Pohl, Deniz Yücel, Christian Lindner and Moritz van Dülmen

M100 Media Award 2018 with Christoph von Marschall, Moritz van Dülmen, Christian Lindner and Kai Diekmann — M100 SANSSOUCI COLLOQUIUM 2018

M100 Media Award 2018 in the Potsdam Museum

Natalia Sindeeva, Founder and CEO of „Doshd TV“, Moscow — Jann Jakobs, Natalia Sindeeva, Tanit Koch

M100 Media Award 2017 to Natalia Sindeeva, Founder and CEO of „Doshd TV“, Moscow

Charlie Hebdo 2015 (Editor-in-Chief Gérard Biard)

Lord Weidenfeld 2011 — Lord Weidenfeld (middle) 2011

Michael Anti 2011 — Michael Anti (2. right) 2011

Hans-Dietrich Genscher 2009 — Hans-Dietrich Genscher (middle) 2009

Ingrid Betancourt 2008 — Ingrid Betancourt (middle) 2008

Dr. Bernard Kouchner 2006 — Dr. Bernard Kouchner (2.right) 2006

Lord Norman Foster 2005 — Lord Norman Foster (left) 2005

I am very moved, especially because I was not expecting to hear these words, which are like an embrace for me. So I want to thank you for this award, for the incredibly moving words of Giovanni di Lorenzo, for this wonderful sky that has welcomed me to Potsdam, and also to thank the Federal Chancellor for her touching words, and for her encouraging presence. Because the awareness raised heartens me a lot more than words. Roberto Saviano, M100 Media Award laureate 2016
It is a great honour for me to be here and receive this great price. It's a very big day for me. I thank Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dr. Joachim Gauck for the kind and strong words, and for their appreciation. Thank you, I will never forget this day! Kurt Westergaard, danish cartoonist, M100 Media Award laureate 2010
At the same time, today’s prize is an appeal to all persons who hold positions of responsibility in governments, in culture and in the media: be steadfast, value-oriented and also COURAGEOUS when irresponsible persons and powers undermine or relativise our values of freedom. It is a virtue to yield to a convincing argument, but it is cowardice to yield to a threat from enemies of freedom. Joachim Gauck in his laudation to Kurt Westergaard, 2010
I receive [this award] with an immense joy, happiness and humility also, because I think by being with you today here, I am receiving this price in the name of those who are still suffering in the jungle of Colombia and of those in the world that are living in similar conditions and who cannot speak for themselves freely. Ingrid Betancourt, M100 Media Award laureate 2008
But I have to say that in our modern society the media has a very, very particular responsibility, also for the European idea. And I hope that the event today – and the events which will follow – will help us to communicate better, to explain better and to convince people that Europe – and acknowledging all the problems, the mistakes and the deficits – […] that at the end of the day the idea of European integration is the best idea that we have ever developed in our history. Günther Verheugen, former EU-Commissioner, in his keynote speech 2005