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Published Tuesday, June 8, 2010 in Past
Arts and Culture

The Curtis Institute at the American Academy in Berlin

Esteemed music instructors from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia give master classes and two concerts during their Curtis On Tour program in Berlin.
Violin student at the Curtis Institute of Music. Photo courtesy Curtis.

Distinguished artist-teachers from the world renowned Curtis Institute of Music, located in Philadelphia, were at the American Academy in Berlin from June 8 to 12, offering master classes to students at Berlin's Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler on the 8th and 10th of June at the Neuer Marstall at Hanns Eisler. Mikael Eliasen, artistic director of the Curtis Opera Theatre, led classes for voice students. Curtis violin professor and Avery Fisher Prize winner Pamela Frank, a Curtis alumna, led violin classes. Viola students were coached by Curtis alumnus and President Roberto Díaz, former principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Two Curtis concerts took place as part of the extensive program during the Curtis residency: On Friday, June 11 at the American Academy in Berlin, and Saturday, June 12 at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. 

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Published Friday, June 4, 2010 in Past
Humanities

After the Nineteenth Century: The 1920s as a Global Watershed

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Constance, Jürgen Osterhammel, delivers a lecture in honor of Fritz Stern on the intermezzo years following the First World War.

In Jürgen Osterhammel's book Globalization: A Short History (with Niels P. Petersson; Princeton, 2005), the University of Constance historian disagrees with many contemporaries about the "long" nineteenth century, which many see as actually having ended at the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914. Instead, Osterhammel, a specialist in Chinese and British history and colonialism, sees the end of the Long Century as having ended exactly during the winter of 1916-17, during the First World War. This time, he says, marks the entry of the United States' decision to get involved a European conflict, the onset of the Russian Revolution, and thus the real beginning of Zeitgeschichte, or contemporary history. The year 1917, he says, is "the true beginning of a new age" -- and the end of one that began with the American Revolution, in 1775.

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Published Tuesday, September 21, 2010 in Berlin Chronicle

Presentation of the Fall 2010 Fellows

Welcome remarks by Gary Smith, Executive Director, American Academy in Berlin;
introduction by Pamela Rosenberg, Dean of Fellows and Programs, American Academy in Berlin.

Invitation Only

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Upcoming
Politics
Thursday, September 2, 2010, 7:00 pm
A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, The CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Journalist

Location: Soho House Berlin, Torstraße 1, 10119 Berlin

In cooperation with Soho House Berlin

Invitation Only

Fall 2010 Program

Highlights of the American Academy’s fall 2010 program include lectures by noted academics Stanley Corngold, Catherine Gallagher, Martin Jay, and Laura Engelstein; Central Asia expert Ahmed Rashid discussing his new book with former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer; readings by New-York based authors John Wray and Han Ong; an inquiry into atheism and the modern novel by James Wood; a lecture-recital by composer/vocalist Ken Ueno; and clusters of events devoted to public policy as well as to the music of Richard Wagner. The fall semester’s visitors and fellows include Robert D. Hormats, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Pulitzer-Prize winning journalists Anne Hull and Dana Priest; Columbia University’s president emeritus Michael Sovern; climate policy expert Rosina Bierbaum; and writer and Iraq advocate Kirk Johnson.

Please download the Fall 2010 Program for further details. We look forward to welcoming you to the American Academy’s Hans Arnhold Center. Kindly remember to register in advance at program(at)americanacademy.de.

Unless otherwise noted, all events begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

The American Academy in Berlin was established in 1994. Its primary goal is to foster greater understanding and dialogue between the people of the United States and the people of Germany through its presence in Berlin, a city with which the United States should maintain its unique cultural, social, political, and historical links.

The Academy offers residential fellowships at its Hans Arnhold Center to American scholars, writers, policymakers, and artists, permitting them to pursue their work in a manner that encourages participation in the vibrant life of Berlin and Germany. The Academy also brings leading Americans to Berlin for briefer visits to facilitate a robust exchange of views between the people of Germany and the United States.

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