Admin I Sunday, Nov.12, 2023
BERLIN – Former German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger has been honoured with the the Jewish Museum of Berlin’s Prize for Understanding and Tolerance. The second award winner is Corinne Michaela Flick, founder of the non-profit Convoco Foundation.
The former head of the Munich Security Conference Ischinger received the award on Saturday evening together with the founder of the Convoco Foundation, Corinne Michaela Flick, at a gala in Berlin.
The prize has been awarded since 2002 and is intended to honour people who are particularly committed to understanding and tolerance.
In its tribute to Ischinger, the jury said that he had not only mastered the fine art of diplomacy, but also combined it with the ambition to contribute to a more peaceful world.
“A diplomat through and through, he is unafraid of plain speaking and uncomfortable questions. Wolfgang Ischinger offers an important voice of reason whenever the world’s flashpoints are at stake,” the jury found.
The other award winner, Corinne Michaela Flick, is the founder of the non-profit Convoco Foundation, which aims to promote dialogue between people from business, politics, law, science, culture and the media on social issues.
As a creative mind, she raises fundamental questions, for example on the challenges of pandemics, climate change, digitalization or systemic competition with authoritarian states, explained the jury.
“With her Convoco foundation, Corinne Flick shows an active commitment to shaping the future Germany, Europe, world in which we wish to live, asking questions, and changing things for the better through a shared quest for answers,” the jury said.
