Recent Press Coverage
Press Announcements
BERLIN—Feb 09, 2021: The American Academy in Berlin is pleased to announce the establishment of the Gerhard Casper Fellowship.
BERLIN—May 15, 2020: The American Academy in Berlin is proud to announce the recipients of the 2020-21 Berlin Prize.
BERLIN, March 19, 2020—The American Academy in Berlin has appointed Ambassador Daniel Benjamin as its new president. Benjamin is currently director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.
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Pressemitteilung auf deutsch herunterladen.
Photo credit: Eli Burakian. Courtesy Dartmouth College
BERLIN—January 17, 2020: The American Academy in Berlin is pleased to announce that the Henry A. Kissinger Prize will be awarded to Chancellor Angela Merkel. The award ceremony will take place on the evening of January 21, 2020, in the Great Orangery of Charlottenburg Palace.
Download the Academy’s press announcement in English and/or German. For use in any advance press coverage, you may download a hi-res photo of Chancellor Angela Merkel (Credit: Bundesregierung / Steffen Kugler).
Coverage of the Henry A. Kissinger Prize ceremony will be provided on this website after January 21, 2020.
BERLIN—May 7, 2019: The American Academy in Berlin has awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—to twenty-one scholars, writers, and artists for fall 2019 and spring 2020.
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