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
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Can Dündar: Democratic Turks and Germans should fight together for their values

Potsdam, September 14, 2017. In the opening speech of this year’s M100 Sanssouci Colloquium about “Democracy or Despotie? The Renaissance of dark Powers”, Turkish journalist Can Dündar accuses the Western societies a lack of fidelity in there own policy values. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” has published the speech in full length. Please find the entire speech here.

We are streaming parts of the #M100SC live on Facebook!

The Colloquium on “Democracy or Despotism? The Renaissance of Dark Powers” starts tomorrow at 9:30! You are interested in the speakers and topics, but do not attend the event? No problem! Find here the detailed agenda and check out when our livestream on facebook is broadcasted!

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As a preview on the #M100SC Dr. Tobias Endler wrote an article on CARTA

Dr. Tobias Endler, M100SC participant and Research Associate/Ph.D. & Research Coordinator at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies offers a sneak preview to the Sanssouci Colloquium on Thursday in Potsdam. Here you can find his article on CARTA (language: German).

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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