Silver jubilee for EM Germany’s Woman of Europe Award: Since 1991 EM Germany honours women who through courageous, creative, or persistent voluntary commitment champion European integration. 25 years later, in 2016, Adriana Lettrari received the prize for giving the “children of German reunification” a voice and for expanding this dialogue into the states of eastern Europe: “We children who grew up during and after reunification have something in common with the generation of the same age in neighbouring eastern European countries, namely the experience of a rapid, for the most part successful change,” Lettrari said in her speech at the award ceremony which was held in Berlin on Nov 8. “We have to be aware of the peculiar skills this experience has given us and actively use them in creating a vibrant 21st-century Europe.” Manuela Schwesig, Germany’s Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, delivered the laudatio.

Born in 1979 in former East Germany, the political and communication scientist Lettrari spent her formative years in a Germany that had reunited in 1990. She is one of around 2.4 million children of German reunification, who today are between 30 and 40 years old. Lettrari addressed the role the decades-long division of the continent still plays in the minds of Europeans early on.

Read the full article in German: https://www.netzwerk-ebd.de/nachrichten/adriana-lettrari-europaeische-perspektive-auf-die-dritte-generation-gesamtdeutschland/

More pictures of the event can be found on Flickr and on Facebook.