
Panel Discussion: US-German Relations One Year Later
On the evening of Thursday, February 15, 2018, the Academy hosted a Richard C. Holbrooke Discussion, “US-German Relations One Year Later: Transatlantic Security and President Trump,” moderated by Thomas Bagger, Director-General for Foreign Affairs at the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. On the expert panel were Academy alumnus Derek Chollet, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor for Security and Defense Policy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Academy’s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor; Jörg Lau, Foreign Editor, DIE ZEIT; Daniela Schwarzer, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations; and Angela Stent, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies, Georgetown University, and an alumna of the American Academy. (Photo: Ralph K. Penno)
Beyond the Lecture: An Interview with Derek Chollet

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

Inaugurating the Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship
In April 2017, the American Academy in Berlin inaugurates the Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship honoring…

Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

Welcoming the Fall 2019 Fellows

The 2022-23 Berlin Prize Fellows

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa

The Fall 2018 Program
As the fellowship program of the American Academy in Berlin celebrates its twentieth anniversary, our…

Ben Rhodes on the Two American Stories

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 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The Fall 2019 Program

Kerry James Marshall at the American Academy
From April 21 to May 1, the American Academy in Berlin hosted Chicago-based artist Kerry…

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

President Steinmeier Delivers the 2019 Fritz Stern Lecture

The Holbrooke Forum in Estonia

Singing to Glaciers

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

The Winter 2019 Program

Berlin Journal 32

Reception for “Our Man”

The Fall 2020 Program

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

The 2017 Henry A. Kissinger Prize
On the evening of June 20, 2017, the trustees of the American Academy in Berlin awarded…

James Kirchick on the End of Europe

William Drozdiak on Emmanuel Macron and the Future of Europe

The 2021-22 Berlin Journal

The Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition

Remembering Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

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

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

Remembering George P. Shultz (1920-2021)

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

“Beyond the Lecture” Podcast with Claudia Rankine

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)
