Special Projects
Gala 2017
Alfred A. Knopf, The Altman-Kazickas Foundation, Anheuser-Busch, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, A. T. Kearney, Inc., Bank of America, Bayer AG, Blackstone Charitable Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Roland J. Bopp, Katherine and David Bradley, Sonja & Martin J. Brand, Stephen B. & Ellen C. Burbank, Gahl Hodges Burt, Gerhard Casper, Avna Cassinelli, Citi, Daimler AG, Michael Del Giudice, Antoinette Delruelle & Joshua L. Steiner, Dinyar & Aashish Devitre, Remmel T. Dickinson, Blair Effron, Marina Kellen French, Goldman Sachs, The Honorable C. Boyden Gray, Richard N. Haass, Mary Ellen & Karl von der Heyden, Elizabeth Jennings & Philip Tuinenburg, Jim & Heather Johnson, Mary Ellen Johnson & Richard Karl Goeltz, Michael M. Kellen, Stephen S. Lash, Christie’s, Pascal & Melanie Levensohn, Longaberger Family Foundation, Macmillan (a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing), Vincent A. & Anne Mai, Nina von Maltzahn, Catie & Donald Marron, Kati Marton, Joachim Mohn, Nader Mousavizadeh, Macro Advisory Partners, Noerr LLP / GWFF USA Inc., Norman Pearlstine, Peter G. Peterson, Steven Rattner & Maureen White, Raymond Roberge & George Barvinchak, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Peter & Sarah Solmssen, Robert & Gillian Steel, Michael P. Steinberg, TimeWarner, Vintage and Anchor Books, Gesa B. and Klaus D. Vogt, White & Case, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Roger W. Witten—WilmerHale LLP, Elaine & James D. Wolfensohn, Andrew Wylie / President, the Wylie Agency, Leah Joy Zell, Joy Foundation
Joint Visiting Speaker Series
A Joint Visiting Speaker Series in cooperation with Fritz Thyssen Stiftung established in fall 2022 allows the Academy’s Distinguished Visitors and Fellows to engage with audiences in Cologne through a semi-annual public lecture.
Lakeside Fellow Pavilion
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Stiftung and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Arnhold, Manfred Bischoff, Stephen B. & Ellen C. Burbank, Gahl Hodges Burt, Hans-Michael & Almut Giesen, C. Boyden Gray, HDH Ingenieursgesellschaft für technische Gebäudeausrüstung mbH, A. Michael & Mercedes Hoffman, Dirk & Marlene Ippen, John C. Kornblum, Kati Marton, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Y. Solmssen, Kurt F. Viermetz
Stuttgart Head-to-Head Series
The Stuttgart Head-to-Head series brings together an American Academy fellow with a German counterpart to discuss a topic germane to their shared expertise. Founded in 2011, the series is sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Dirk Ippen, and Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH. Past participants include literary historian Leland de la Durantaye speaking with critic Ijoma Mangold of Die Zeit; the writers Adam Ross and Julia Franck; novelist Jonathan Lethem and historian Ronald Suny; and Egyptologists Janet Richards and Gerald Moers.
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration (2014)
The American Academy’s twentieth anniversary celebration, on October 8, 2014, was generously sponsored by the Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation, Holtzbrinck Family, and Jeane Freifrau von Oppenheim.
Download a newspaper supplement from Der Tagesspiegel, published on the occasion of the Academy’s twentieth anniversary.