Berlin Journal 32
Berlin Journal 32

Issue 32 of the Berlin Journal opens with a focus on "extraction and its afterlives," with essays by fellows Rosalind C. Morris, Ronald Radano, Herman Mark Schwartz, Emily Apter, and Priscilla Layne, and by Distinguished Visitor Michael Sandel. Feature articles are by Tung-Hui Hu, on the…

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.

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: Tung-Hui Hu
Fellow Spotlight: Tung-Hui Hu
Tung-Hui Hu aims to articulate the "lethargy" of being caught inside digital systems of algorithmic control.
Fellow Spotlight: Rosalind Morris
Fellow Spotlight: Rosalind Morris
Rosalind Morris's project encompasses nearly twenty years of field research in South Africa’s gold-mining regions.
Fellow Spotlight: Priscilla Layne
Fellow Spotlight: Priscilla Layne
Priscilla Layne is completing work on her second book, about German Afrofuturist concepts in literature and theater.
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.
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