M100 SANSSOUCI COLLOQUIUM

Europe’s unique Media Conference for Democracy and Press Freedom

Between Ambition and Disarray – The Future of Democracy

Thursday, 14 September 2023
Orangery Sanssouci, Potsdam
M100 Media Award

M100 Media Award 2023
to the Women Life Freedom Movement of Iran
Accepted by Shima Babaei, Iranian women’s rights activist
Laudation: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
Moderation: Pinar Atalay, TV journalist
M100 YEJ Workshop

Reporting on Climate Change – and its Significance for Democracy

9 – 14 September 2023
Potsdam

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

M100 2018 – All speeches online

Potsdam, 5.Oktober 2018. From now on you will find the opening speech of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium by former US ambassador John Kornblum, the greeting by Potsdam’s Lord Mayor Jann Jakobs, the main political speech by FDP Chairman Christian Lindner, the laudation by Ines Pohl as well as the acceptance speech by M100 Media Award laureate Deniz Yücel online.

ALEX Feature of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium & M100 Media Award 2018

Berlin, 28.09.2018: ALEX Berlin is a cross-media community channel that accompanied the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2019. During the conference, the team conducted interviews and filmed contributions of the M100 participants. Find here the video “Status quo of press freedom in Germany, Europe and worldwide – is our democracy in danger?”, published on YouTube.

read more ALEX Feature of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium & M100 Media Award 2018

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

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2018 with Strong Impulses for a Democratic Europe / M100 Media Award for Deniz Yücel

Potsdam, 19 September 2018: The German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel receives this year’s M100 Media Award with standing ovations, FDP Federal Chairman, Christian Lindner, gives the main political speech, Ines Pohl, Editor-in-Chief of Deutsche Welle, the laudation.

read more M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2018 with Strong Impulses for a Democratic Europe / M100 Media Award for Deniz Yücel

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

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