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Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger on the M100 Advisory Board

8 February 2023. We are very pleased to welcome Professor Wolfgang Ischinger to the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium Advisory Board.
At the last M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, Ambassador Ischinger, who lives near Potsdam, hosted an exciting discussion with Dr. Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, President of the Republic of Kosovo, on European security strategy and the role of Eastern European countries.

Wolfgang Ischinger is President of the MSC Foundation Board and was Conference Director of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) from 2008 to 2022. Prioir to that, he was State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry and Ambassador to the USA and the UK. He serves on a number of non-profit boards and advisory councils, including the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the American Academy Berlin and Atlantik-Brücke. He is an honorary professor at the University of Tübingen and teaches security policy and diplomatic practice there and at the Hertie School in Berlin. He advises the private sector, governments and international organisations on strategic issues and has published widely on foreign, security and defence policy topics.

Book recommendation: Hella Pick “Invisible Walls”

12 December 2022. “Invisible Walls” (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), the impressive autobiography by M100 Doyenne Hella Pick, has now also been published in German: “Unsichtbare Mauern”. “The adventurous journey of one of the greatest female political journalists to the peaks and abysses of contemporary history”, writes the publishing Czernin Verlag.
In 1939, the eleven-year-old was sent to London by her Jewish mother on the Kindertransport. She became a journalist, travelled through Africa and went to Washington as a correspondent for the Guardian and was often a guest in Werner Höfer’s legendary Sunday talk show “Internationaler Frühschoppen”.

Hella Pick is a role model for all female journalists. Pick frequently found that she was the only woman in journalists’ rounds, often inadvertently causing a “political dilemma”. After-dinner, when the men and women traditionally gathered in single sex groups, no one knew what to do with, “a female journalist invited because of her profession”. But her professional reputation prevailed. She wrote about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy’s assassination, travelled to Moscow with Richard Nixon, reported on the disintegration of the Soviet Union on the spot and made friends with Willy Brandt. But this book is not only a political and journalistic journey, it is also a personal one, in which the long-time friend and companion of M100 co-founder Lord Weidenfeld reveals a lot about herself. Absolutely recommended reading and as a gift!

“Hella Pick lived through, and reported on, many of the most seismic moments of the past fourscore years or so. Now she turns her exceptional reporting skills on herself – and the result is fascinating, moving, truly inspiring.” Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of the Guardian.

Piotr Drabik: Covering war more ethically

6 December 2022. “Russian invasion on Ukraine changed media landscape in most of European countries. About how deep this shift it was discussed more than 100 guests from 15 countries on Media and War conference in Rzeszów, 90 kilometers away from the Polish-Ukrainian border. Events organized by Outriders and Mixer Media concentrated to find answers to questions how more ethical covering war, what’s the most important needs for Ukrainian journalists and how verification news from the battlefields.

Ukrainian guests underlined problems with blackouts and internet connection, even mobile, after Russian strikes on critical infrastructures. Organizers also give a chance to explain hard situation in Belarusian independent outlets and how Russian migration after Putin’s mobilization change society in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In the face of new challenges, European solidarity could help a lot of independent journalists in crisis areas, the most guests said.”

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