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.

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 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.

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.

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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.

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.