Aleida and Jan Assmann awarded the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
(WorldNews Germany)

The German literary and cultural studies scholar Aleida Assmann and the German Egyptologist and cultural studies scholar Jan Assmann were awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade today at a ceremony attended by roughly 700 invited guests in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt. The speech honouring this year`s recipients was given by the German-American literary scholar Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. In their joint acceptance speech, Aleida and Jan Assmann emphasised the importance of a diversity of opinion and debate in a democratic society, while also pointing to where democratic exchange must draw a line: `In a democracy, the work of thinking cannot be delegated to experts, performers or...