In July 2022, Dagmar Reichardt was elected member of PEN International, a worldwide non-governmental association of Poets, Essayist and Novelist including Playwrights, Editors and Writers of any form of literature, with over 140 autonomous International PEN Centers in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North America. Originally founded in London in 1921, in formal consultative relations with UNESCO and Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the PEN International emphasizes world culture, the freedom of intellectual expression, and engages for writers harassed, imprisoned or in exile for their views, regardless of nationality, race, color, or religion. Dagmar Reichardt was nominated member of the PEN Centre Germany (Exil PEN - PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland), established in 1924 and based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The members of PEN International contribute good understanding and mutual respect between nations and people, doing their utmost to dispel all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace and equality in one world. PEN members stand for the principle of unhampered transmission of thought within each nation and between all nations and are convinced that the patrimony of humanity at large, should be left untouched by national or political passion.
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