Please Support the American Academy in Berlin

Funding for the American Academy in Berlin is provided almost entirely by private donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations. It is private generosity that has enabled the creation and success of this institution and what will further enable us to sustain our level of excellence throughout the difficult economic times ahead.

You may make tax-deductible donations to the American Academy from the US or from Germany. Please download the donation form here to make your pledge and to obtain the Academy’s account information.

For further information or to speak with someone regarding support opportunities, please contact Berit Ebert at +49 030 804 830 x108 or be@americanacademy.de

A Thank-You to Our Donors

The founding gift to the American Academy in Berlin was given by Anna-Maria and Stephen M. Kellen and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, who continue to provide majority support.

We depend on the additional generosity of a widening circle of friends on both sides of the Atlantic and wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of those listed below. It is through their abiding support and vision that the Academy has become what Der Spiegel has called “the world's most important center for American intellectual life outside the United States."

January 2009 to January 2010

Fellowships and Distinguished Visitorships Established in Perpetuity

Daimler Berlin Prize
German Transatlantic Berlin Prize (supported by European Recovery Program funds   granted through the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize for Fiction
Holtzbrinck Berlin Prize
Anna-Maria Kellen Berlin Prize
Guna S. Mundheim Berlin Prize in the Visual Arts
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitorship
Stephen M. Kellen Distinguished Visitorship
John W. Kluge Distinguished Visitorship
Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitorship
Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitorship

Annually Funded Fellowships and Distinguished Visitorships

Leonore Annenberg Berlin Prize in Music Composition

Axel Springer Berlin Prize

Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy

Haniel Berlin Prize

Berthold Leibinger Berlin Prize

Metro Berlin Prize

Siemens Berlin Prize

David Rubenstein Foreign Policy Forum

Endowment Giving

Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize for Fiction
    The von der Heyden Family Foundation

Lloyd Cutler Distinguished Visitorship in Law

C.H. Beck Stiftung, Georg Graf zu Castell-Castell, Rueben Clark, Christian Crones, Stephen Cutler, Jutta von Falkenhausen, Dennis Flannery, Gabriel Resources Ltd., Dieter Lange, Carol Lee, William Lee, Daniel & Maeva Marcus, Stefan Ohlhoff, William Perlstein, Joseph Pillman, Lisa J. Pirozzolo, Ulrich Quack, Martin Seyfarth, Daniel H. Squire, Roland Steinmeyer, John B. Watkins, David Westin, Roger M. and Jill J. Witten, Verband der Automobilindustrie, Villa Grisebach (Berlin), WilmerHale

EADS Distinguished Visitorship
    EADS

John Kluge Distinguished Visitorship
    The John Kluge Foundation

Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitorship
   Axel Springer Stiftung, Deutsche Börse, Hypo Real Estate Group

INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILY FOUNDATIONS

Founder's Circle

$1 million and above

Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold

Chairman's Circle

Donations of $25,000 and above
The Arnhold Foundation
Constance and John P. Birkelund
Lester Crown
Marina French
Werner Gegenbauer
Richard Goeltz
C. Boyden Gray
Mary Ellen and Karl M. von der Heyden
Richard C. Holbrooke
Nina von Maltzahn
William von Mueffling
Christopher von Oppenheim
Maren Otto
Norman Pearlstine and Jane Boon Pearlstine
David M. Rubenstein
Kurt Viermetz

Trustees' Circle

$10,000 and above
Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation
Inge Groth-Fromm & Hartmut Fromm
Helga & Erivan Haub
Stefan von Holtzbrinck
Neubauer Family Foundation
Rafael J. Roth
Mary Ellen von Shacky-Schultz & Bernd Schultz

Patrons

$2,500 and above

Robert Aliber
Heinrich Barth
Waldtraut & Günter Braun
Stephen Burbank
Gahl Hodges Burt
Dennis & Hannelore Carter
Avna Cassinelli
Matthias & Christa Druba
Jean-Marie & Elizabeth Eveillard
Julie Finley
Inge Groth-Fromm & Hartmut Fromm
Egon Geerkens
Hans-Michael & Almut Giesen
Marisa & Carl Hahn
Ina Vonnegut-Hartung & Wilhelm Hartung
Klaus & Lily Heiliger
Ben Heinemann
Jan Hummel
Henry A. Kissinger
Martin Köhler
John C. Kornblum
Evi Kurz
Jürgen & Serap Leibfried
Regine Leibinger & Frank Barkow
Lawrence Lessig
Wolfgang Mayrhuber
Julie Mehretu
Heinz Joachim Neubürger
Jens Odewald
Jeane Freifrau von Oppenheim
Thomas H. Pohlmann
Annette & Heinrich von Rantzau
William & Nancy Ellison Rollnick
The Daniel & Joanna Rose Fund
The Sage Foundation
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Hannes Schneider
Richard E. Snyder
Peter Solmssen
Annaliese Soros
Bernhard Speyer
Ronald L. Steel
Maren & Joachim Strüngmann
Gesa & Klaus Vogt
Will Foundation (Hans George Will)
Roger M. & Jill J. Witten

Friends

Up to $2,500
Samuel Adler & Emily Freeman Brown, Liaquat Ahamed, James Attwood, Barbara Balaj, Stefan Beiten, Bialkin Family Foundation, Jordan Bonfante, David & Katherine Bradley, Diethart Breipohl, Eckhard Bremer, Irene Bringmann, Isabella von Bülow, Christian Bunsen,  Caroline Bynum, Candia Clark, Carsten Dentler, Remmel T. Dickinson, Brigitte Döring, Erika Falkenreck, Julie Finley, Donald Fox, Michael Gellert, Ulrich Gensch, Marie Louise Gericke, Michael Geyer, Vartan Gregorian, Hans Groening, Christian Hacke, Helga Haftendorn, Niels Hansen Memorial Foundation, Anna Herrhausen, Karen Hsu, Roe Jason, Stefan-Hugo Kaufmann, Marion Knauf, Peter Kuhrt, Anneliese Langner, Alexander Letzsch, Michael Libal, Daniel Libeskind, Quincy Liu, Hannelore & Lothar Loewe, Charles Maier, Dare & Themistocles Michos, Stephanie Moeller, Cornelia Müller & Johannes Wehberg, Michael Münchehofe, Sybille & Steffen Naumann, Jan-Daniel Neumann, Kathryn & Peter Nixdorff, Wolfram Nolte, Graf Caspar von Preysing, Albert Rädler, Susan Rambow, Jörg & Ursula Ramseger, Jason Roe, Hergard Rohwedder, Nancy & Miles Rubin, Hans Björn Rupp, Henry Sapparth, Kim Scheppele, Volker Schlöndorff, Harald Schmid, Pamela & Philipp Scholz, Norman Selby, Philipp Semmer, Anne-Marie Slaughter & Andrew Moravcsik, Manfred von Sperber, Immo Stabreit, Ronald Steel, Fritz Stern, Teagle Foundation, Thomas von Thaeden, James S. Tisch, Clarence & Melinda Trummel, Lutz Weißer, Richard von Weizsäcker, Manfred & Rosa Wennemer, Hayden & Margaret Brose White, Sabine & Ned Wiley, Pauline Yu

CORPORATIONS AND CORPORATE FOUNDATIONS

President's Circle

Donations of $25,000 and above

Alcoa Inc.
Bank of America, N.A.
Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Robert Bosch GmbH
Buse Heberer Fromm
Cerberus Deutschland GmbH
Daimler-Fonds im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Deloitte & Touche GmbH
Deutsche Börse AG
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Deutsche Post AG
Dürr AG
Germanwings
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten
Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung
KPMG AG
Macy’s
Marsh GmbH
MSD Sharpe & Dohme GmbH
Pfizer Pharma GmbH
Philip Morris GmbH
Porsche AG
Siemens AG
Susanna Dulkinys and Erik Spiekermann, Edenspiekermann
Telefónica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
Vattenfall Europe AG
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Benefactors

Up to $25,000

American International Yacht Club e.V.
Axel Springer Stiftung
BMW AG
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Christie’s
EAG - European Advisory Group GmbH
Fleishman-Hillard Germany / Public Affairs & Gov. Relations
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
The Hermes Foundation
Hotel Savoy
Investitionsbank Berlin
Nextstop Inc.
Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Rudolf August Oetker Stiftung
Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH
Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH
Villa Grisebach (Berlin)

We make every effort to be accurate in our lists of donors. Please notify us of any errors in spelling or attribution.

Support the American Academy

Funding for the American Academy in Berlin is provided almost entirely by private donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations. It is private generosity that has enabled the creation and success of this institution over the past dozen years and what will enable us to sustain the level and excellence of our activities throughout the difficult economic times ahead.

You may make tax-deductible donations to the American Academy from the US or from Germany. Please download the donation form here to make your pledge. The Academy’s account information is:

Berliner Sparkasse
Account no. 660 000 9908
BLZ 100 500 00

For further information or to speak with someone regarding support opportunities, please contact Berit Ebert at +49 030 804 830 x109 or be@americanacademy.de.

Thank you for your support.

Citi Master Class in Effective Entrepreneurship

In summer 2009 the American Academy in Berlin and Citigroup gave 24 select business students the unique opportunity to participate in the Academy’s first entrepreneurial seminar in hopes of inspiring and creating future decision-makers by engaging in dialogue with internationally renowned business leaders. At the end of the seminar students were asked to enter an essay about the economic environment and how it will affect their lives and entrepreneurial endeavors. The best essays of the Citi Master Class in Effective Entrepreneurship have been selected.

To read more about the Citigroup Master Class and to download the winning essays, please click here.

The Fall 2009 Berlin Journal

The fall 2009 issue of The Berlin Journal features articles by Mary Sarotte on the tense evening hours of November 9, 1989 in East Berlin; Leonard Barkan on the mind of Michelangelo; Joel Harrington on God's sixteenth-century Nuremberg executioner; poet Susan Howe on the Midwest's lost objects; and Justice Stephen Breyer on the 1857 Dred Scott decision. These topics and more, accompanied by compelling images by Mitch Epstein, Walton Ford, Matthias Hoch, Haleh Anvari, and Fellow Michael Queenland.

You may pick up a copy of The Berlin Journal free of charge at the American Academy in Berlin.

Click here to navigate to The Berlin Journal page and to download past issues, and here to download issue 18.

Winter 2010 Program

This winter offers a new batch of intriguing lectures and talks at the Hans Arnhold Center: Obama and international law; the many arts of translation; Jeremy Rifkin on the empathic civilization; Albrecht Dürer as collector; India's role in the New World Order; Bonhoeffer in America; and fiction by Amy Waldman and Francisco Goldman. To read about these lectures and more, please download the Winter 2010 Program. We look forward to welcoming you, so please remember to register well in advance of all lectures at program(at)americanacademy.de

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Press Releases

If your media organization would like to receive regular press releases from the American Academy about its program, current Fellows, and upcoming special events, please contact press(at)americanacademy.de or call the Academy's press department at +49 (0)30-80483-414. You may also fill out an automated form here.

Getting to the American Academy

The American Academy in Berlin is located in Wannsee. S-bahns and regional rail trains run regularly throughout the day. For a map of the area and directions to the American Academy, located Am Sandwerder 17-19, please click here.

American Academy Alumni

The Academy's alumni now number over 280 outstanding scholars, writers, composers, and artists. Browse the Academy's database of past fellows and their publications here.