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The Spring 2023 Program

Ben Rhodes on the Two American Stories

C. Boyden Gray (1943-2023)

The 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The 2022-23 Berlin Journal

Angela Merkel Receives the Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The 2017 Gala at The Met

Panel Discussion: US-German Relations One Year Later

The Fall 2022 Program

Remembering Wolfgang Mayrhuber (1947-2018)
The American Academy in Berlin mourns the passing of Wolfgang Mayrhuber (seen in the above…

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

Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

The 2020-21 Berlin Journal

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

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

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

Remembering Ed Koren (1935-2023)

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

The Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition

The Winter 2018 Program

“Beyond the Lecture” Podcast with Claudia Rankine

Al Gore at the American Academy

The Fall 2019 Berlin Journal

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 Richard K. Goeltz (1942-2020)

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

Remembering Helmut Kohl (1930-2017)
The American Academy in Berlin mourns the passing of Helmut Kohl, a longstanding friend and…

The Spring 2020 Program

The Fall 2019 Program

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

President Steinmeier Delivers the 2019 Fritz Stern Lecture

A Centennial Birthday

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

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…

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

Remembering Madeleine Albright (1937−2022)

The Spring 2021 Program

The 2022-23 Berlin Prize Fellows

Berlin Journal 32
