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New Stuttgart Head-to-Head Series Partnerships
The American Academy’s Head-to-Head Series was established in 2012 to strengthen German-American ties in the…

Remembering Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

The Winter 2019 Program

The 2023-24 Berlin Prize Fellows

The 2023-24 Berlin Journal

Katholisches Schulzentrum Edith Stein
On the afternoon of Friday, April 13, 2018, American Academy president Michael P. Steinberg visited…

James Comey Book Presentation
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, former director of the FBI James Comey joined DIE ZEIT’s…

Next Generation
What was like to be the first black person at an all-white private school in…

The Spring 2021 Program

Remembering Dr. Henry A. Kissinger (1923-2023)

The 2022-23 Berlin Prize Fellows

The 2020-21 Berlin Journal

Museums, Architecture, and Social Engagement

The 2021-22 Berlin Journal

The 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellows

Remembering Anna-Maria Kellen (1918-2017)
The American Academy in Berlin mourns the passing of Anna-Maria Kellen, who died in New…

The 2017 Gala at The Met

The Spring 2018 Program
This spring offers a range of timely lecture topics at the American Academy in Berlin,…

The 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The Fall 2020 Program

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

Remembering George P. Shultz (1920-2021)

Celebrating Twenty Years of Fellowships
This fall, the American Academy in Berlin is proud to celebrate twenty years of Berlin…

Jens Stoltenberg Receives the 2023 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The 2018-19 Berlin Prize
BERLIN—April 25, 2018—The American Academy in Berlin has awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—to 24…

The Spring 2023 Program

Welcoming the Fall 2019 Fellows

Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”

Remembering Ambassador Martin Indyk (1951-2024)

The 2022-23 Berlin Journal

Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows

The 2024-25 Berlin Prize Fellows

Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

The Holbrooke Forum in Estonia

C. Boyden Gray (1943-2023)

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

Panel Discussion: US-German Relations One Year Later

Remembering John C. Kornblum (1943 – 2023)

James Kirchick on the End of Europe

Alumni Seminar in New York
On the afternoon of April 5, 2018, the American Academy in Berlin held an alumni…