
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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Angela Merkel Receives the Henry A. Kissinger Prize

Museums, Architecture, and Social Engagement

The 2022-23 Berlin Prize Fellows

Al Gore at the American Academy

The Holbrooke Forum in Estonia

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

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

Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

The 2020-21 Berlin Journal

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…

The 2017 Gala at The Met

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…

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

Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”

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

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

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

Remembering Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021)

The Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition

The 2020-21 Berlin Prize Fellows

The Spring 2022 Program

Remembering Erivan Haub (1932-2018)

Berlin Journal 32

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

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

The 2021-22 Berlin Journal

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

Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

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…

The US Midterm Elections

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

The Winter 2019 Program

The Spring 2019 Program

Announcing the Carol Kahn Strauss Fellowship in Jewish Studies

Ben Rhodes on the Two American Stories

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