Celebrating Twenty Years Of Fellowships
Celebrating Twenty Years of Fellowships

This fall, the American Academy in Berlin is proud to celebrate twenty years of Berlin Prize fellowships. After four years of planning and fundraising, the very first class of Berlin Prize Fellows was introduced on September 26, 1998, to an audience gathered in the backyard…

New President Of The American Academy In Berlin: Terry McCarthy
New President of the American Academy in Berlin: Terry McCarthy
The trustees of the American Academy in Berlin appointed Terry McCarthy as the institution’s next president on September 1, 2018. McCarthy, a prize-winning foreign correspondent, previously served as president and CEO of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
The Fall 2018 Program
The Fall 2018 Program

As the fellowship program of the American Academy in Berlin celebrates its twentieth anniversary, our fall 2018 program is filled with events and readings that continue the tradition of bringing outstanding American scholars and writers to Berlin for spirited exchange across a range of disciplines and…

"Possibly one of the coolest forums in the country." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

We must fight for transatlantic institutions like the American Academy in Berlin, which forges and preserves the bonds that help keep the free world vibrant, safe, and decent. - Roger Cohen, New York Times columnist and American Academy alumnus

I found my time at the American Academy to be an enormously rich intellectual experience. - Thomas Friedman

The American Academy in Berlin, located directly on Lake Wannsee, resides in one of the most beautiful properties in Berlin and organizes some of the most interesting events in the German capital. - Cicero Magazine

The American Academy in Berlin is the world's most important center for American intellectual life outside the United States. — Der Spiegel

Transatlantic partnership at a high intellectual level, in the style of mutual respect.
— Süddeutsche Zeitung​

Given the temper of our times, the Academy’s role is more important in 2017 than even my husband might have imagined in 1994. — Kati Marton, Author and Journalist

It is difficult to imagine a more inspirational, daring, and rewarding place to engage the mind than the salon on the Wannsee. — The Washington Post

Video & Audio

Fellow Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi
Fellow Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi
Writer Yaa Gyasi is working on a second novel, about "the costs of assimilation and integration on the immigrant."
Fellow Spotlight: Alexander Galloway
Fellow Spotlight: Alexander Galloway
Media theorist Alexander Galloway widens the prehistory of computation to include nineteenth-century media.
Fellow Spotlight: P. Carl
Fellow Spotlight: P. Carl
Writer and dramaturg P. Carl is at the American Academy in Berlin working on a memoir of gender transition. 
The Fall 2018 Fellows Presentation
The Fall 2018 Fellows Presentation
Presenting the fellows of fall 2018, welcomed by Gereon Sievernich, curator of the Haupstadtkulturfonds.
Fellow Spotlight: Christian Ostermann
Fellow Spotlight: Christian Ostermann
Cold War historian Christian Ostermann is working on a biography of Markus Wolf (1923-2006), the longtime foreign intelligence chief of the German Democratic Republic.
Fellow Spotlight: Paul Reitter
Fellow Spotlight: Paul Reitter
Historian Paul Reitter is reconstructing several intellectual crises within the humanities in nineteenth-century Germany.
Fellow Spotlight: Andrew Hicks
Fellow Spotlight: Andrew Hicks
Historian Andrew Hicks seeks to reframe the history of medieval Persian musical culture by focusing on poetic imagery, artistic visualizations, and metaphors of music.
Fellow Spotlight: Barbara Nagel
Fellow Spotlight: Barbara Nagel
Barbara Nagel aims to combine American affect theory with German realism to understand the interaction of language and violence.
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