Carolin Emcke received the German Book Trade’s peace prize for this year. In her acceptance speech, Emcke openly addressed the debate around personal rights, including homosexuality and the Islamic veil.
Nearly 1,000 guests, including German President Joachim Gauck, were present during the award ceremony at Frankfurt’s St. Paul’s Church on Sunday. In a speech honoring Carolin Emcke, philosopher and social critic Seyla Benhabib praised the journalist as a “great narrator.” In her work, Emcke created a unique mixture of reportage, philosophical reflection and literary composition, which made a clear “moral” statement not only about human suffering in violent conflict, … continue reading
