
The 2021-22 Berlin Journal
The 2021-22 Berlin Journal features a range of essays, stories, and artwork by this year’s class of fellows: Channing Joseph on America’s first drag queen; Yanni Kotsonis on the Greek Revolution; fiction by Lan Samantha Chang and Ladee Hubbard; reporter Alec MacGillis on the rise of Amazon; Tess Lewis on her translation of Lutz Seiler’s Stern III; an artist portfolio by Eric Wesley, and essays on the future of the global supply chain, lithium economy, and teaching Schubert’s An die Musik, among much more, including book reviews, alumni books, and news from the Academy. (Cover image by Academy alumnus Mitch Epstein, from Property Rights, just published by Steidl.)

The Spring 2018 Program
This spring offers a range of timely lecture topics at the American Academy in Berlin,…

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

The Fall 2021 Program

Singing to Glaciers

John McCain Receives the 2018 Henry A. Kissinger Prize
BERLIN—May 3, 2018—The American Academy in Berlin has awarded the 2018 Henry A. Kissinger Prize…

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Remembering George H.W. Bush (1924-2018)

The 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellows

Remembering George P. Shultz (1920-2021)

The 2020-21 Berlin Prize Fellows

Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”

The Spring 2022 Program

The Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition

The Spring 2019 Program

William Drozdiak on Emmanuel Macron and the Future of Europe

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

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

The Winter 2019 Program

The 2022-23 Berlin Prize Fellows

James Kirchick on the End of Europe

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa

The 2017 Gala at The Met

Remembering Madeleine Albright (1937−2022)

The Spring 2021 Program

Museums, Architecture, and Social Engagement

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

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

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

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

New Stuttgart Head-to-Head Series Partnerships
The American Academy’s Head-to-Head Series was established in 2012 to strengthen German-American ties in the…

The Winter 2018 Program

Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

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

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

Remembering Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021)

Remembering Richard K. Goeltz (1942-2020)

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

The Fall 2019 Program
