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Oldenburg (dpa) - The author Carolin Emcke was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Prize on Tuesday in Oldenburg for her work against hatred and exclusion.
Lord Mayor Jürgen Krogmann (SPD) presented her with the prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, and praised the Berlin-based journalist as an extraordinarily strong and courageous personality.
The jury referred to Emcke's commitment to open and hidden violence.
"She is not intimidated, but interferes in the social discourse as a critical, intellectual voice against hate speech, racism and anti-Semitism."
Because of the corona pandemic, the award ceremony was organized in a small circle, as the city announced.
The 53-year-old, who is known as a war reporter, essayist and literary philosopher, emphasized according to the speech manuscript the need to deal with the Nazi past.
The historical memory of Auschwitz should not dull us for the present, “it must keep us awake so that we can find traces of disregard and exclusion not always somewhere else, in a yesterday, on the periphery, but today, with us, in the Recognize the middle of society. "
The city of Oldenburg awards the award every two years to commemorate the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).
The award honors people who deal in an outstanding way with the life and work of Carl von Ossietzky, the resistance against National Socialism and the democratic tradition and present in Germany.
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