
The Fall 2019 Berlin Journal
The thirty-third issue of the Berlin Journal features a suite of related essays on the fragility and composition of democracy: Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky on How Democracies Die; Steven Klein on the role of debt in post-WWII democracies; and Laura D’Andrea Tyson on how Germany is successfully navigating the automation of its industrial sector. Plus, fiction by Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Angela Flournoy, and Paul La Farge; Suki Kim on her reporting from North Korea; artwork by Renée Green; and essays on literary history by Azade Seyhan, Tatyana Gershkovich, and Liliane Weissberg, along with several essays from the June 2019 Andrew W. Mellon workshop.
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Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

Welcoming the Fall 2019 Fellows

The 2023-24 Berlin Prize Fellows

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Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

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

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…

The Holbrooke Forum in Estonia

The Spring 2022 Program

The Fall 2022 Program

The 2020-21 Berlin Journal

The 2021-22 Berlin Journal

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

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa

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

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

The 2017 Gala at The Met

Remembering Erivan Haub (1932-2018)

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

The Winter 2018 Program

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

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

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

“Beyond the Lecture” Podcast with Claudia Rankine

Al Gore at the American Academy

Remembering George P. Shultz (1920-2021)

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

C. Boyden Gray (1943-2023)

Remembering Richard K. Goeltz (1942-2020)

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

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

The Winter 2019 Program

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

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 2022-23 Berlin Journal

Remembering Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021)

Panel Discussion: US-German Relations One Year Later

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier Receives the 2022 Henry A. Kissinger Prize
