The Dirk Ippen Fellowship has been generously endowed by Dirk Ippen since 2012. A newspaper publisher in Munich, Dirk Ippen is a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin. The following individuals are the recipients of the Dirk Ippen Fellowship:

The Holtzbrinck Fellowship was established in 1999 with the generous support of the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. The fellowship is intended to promote German-American dialogue in the fields of journalism, nonfiction, and fiction. The Holtzbrinck Fellow is selected annually from the Academy’s pool of accepted fellows and may have a background in academia, journalism, or other related media. The following individuals are the recipients of the Holtzbrinck Fellowship:

The John P. Birkelund Fellowship was endowed in February of 2011 after a generous donation by John P. Birkelund. It was initiated with the intention of fostering German-American dialogue in the field of the humanities. The fellowship funds two fellows annually, the first took up residence in the 2011/2012 academic year. The following individuals are the recipients of the John P. Birkelund Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin:

The Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship in Fiction was established in 2007 and endowed in perpetuity in 2009, with the purpose of bringing outstanding novelists and fiction writers to Berlin as part of the American Academy’s residential fellowship program. Karl von der Heyden, a native Berliner, is a founding trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, served as its treasurer for more than a decade, and was the Academy’s co-chairman from 2009 to 2011. The fellowship recognizes his wife Mary Ellen’s lifelong passion for fiction writing, we are grateful to them both for endowing this outstanding initiative. The following individuals are the recipients of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin:

The Mercedes-Benz Berlin Prize was founded in 1998 and endowed in perpetuity by Daimler-Benz AG. Daimler-Benz, now Mercedes-Benz Group AG, supports the work of the American Academy via the Mercedes-Benz Fellowship in deepening the economic, cultural, and social bonds between Germany and the United States. The fellowship is granted to at least one person annually who has achieved distinction in a particular manner in one of the aforementioned fields. The following individuals are the recipients of the Mercedes-Benz Fellowship:

We are grateful to Baroness Nina von Maltzahn for endowing this fellowship, which concentrates on German history after the Second World War. The prize was founded in 2010 and endowed in 2012. Nina von Maltzahn was a founding member of our Board of Trustees (until 2020), one of the Academy’s most active benefactors, and is a granddaughter of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold. The Nina Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize is granted to two outstanding scholars per academic year; the first prize recipient was in spring 2011. The following individuals are the recipients of the Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellowship:

Starting in 2018 / 2019 the American Academy in Berlin will award the Richard C. Holbrooke Fellowship to one residential fellow per academic year. The Richard C. Holbrooke Fellowship was created as a programmatic addition to the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum, which honors the American Academy’s founder. Its objective is to provide opportunities for dialogue on questions of special importance to both the United States and Germany. The program will include a workshop with practitioners from the United States and Europe which is convened by the Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow. Workshop findings will be published by the Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow through the American Academy in Berlin.