Verein der Auslandspresse invites to

On the evening of the 29th September it will once more be called: Welcome to the traditional annual reception of the Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland. Correspondents across the world, from newspapers and magazines, news agencies, broadcast and TV-stations as well as web portals will be apart of the current information occurences with their colleagues, with politician of the governing- and opposition parties, with high representatives of the the economy and members of the Diplomatic Corps to spend an inspiring evening together. As usual, for the opening speech we were able to attain the incumbent foreign minister. The venue in this year will be the Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg in the former diplomatic district at the sidelines of the Berliner Tiergarten. Here, at the beginning of the reception, the Media Award of the foreign press will be assigned. With this gesture, journalists want to thank one personality of the public life for theire notably support within the past year.

The Verein der Auslandspresse was founded on the 30th June 1906 in Berlin by 26 correspondents of internationale newspapers and agencies. From that point they represented their common interests towards the host country and bilaterally helped each other working as well as to socialize.

And that's what it's still about today. What has changed is the number of members - more than 400 colleagues from about 60 countries account to the independent, subscription financed association. The VAP invites its members to about 60 press conversations annualy: Chancellor, Federal President –Minister, the top of the in parliament represented parties, chairman of DAX-Companies, eyewitnesses of important events of german history, academics and artists count to its guests.