
The Spring 2018 Program
This spring offers a range of timely lecture topics at the American Academy in Berlin, from populism and democracy to white supremacy in the Trump era, from the terror of flirtation to the humanities in an age of disenchantment. Download the Academy’s spring 2018 program (April through May).
Image: GAMA, Zucht (Thriving), 2016 (detail), oil on wood. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Michael Schultz

William Drozdiak on Emmanuel Macron and the Future of Europe

Remembering Anna-Maria Kellen (1918-2017)
The American Academy in Berlin mourns the passing of Anna-Maria Kellen, who died in New…

Angela Merkel Receives the Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The Spring 2022 Program

Remembering Richard K. Goeltz (1942-2020)

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

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

Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

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

Remembering Madeleine Albright (1937−2022)

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

The Global Triangle Project
On May 5, 2017, the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum hosted a workshop entitled The Global…

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

The Spring 2019 Program

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

James Kirchick on the End of Europe

Al Gore at the American Academy

The Holbrooke Forum in Estonia

Ben Rhodes on the Two American Stories

The 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

The Spring 2021 Program

Remembering Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

The Fall 2019 Program

Berlin Journal 32

The Fall 2020 Program

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa

The 2021-22 Berlin Journal

Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”

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

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

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

The Winter 2018 Program

Museums, Architecture, and Social Engagement

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

Welcoming the Fall 2019 Fellows

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