
The Fall 2019 Program
The fall 2019 program begins in mid-September and features a wide array of topics: from new migration challenges for the US and Germany and readings from multiple novels-in-progress, to the trials of contemporary democracy and going undercover in North Korea, among much more. Download the fall 2019 program, and please remember to sign up for events online.

The Spring 2020 Program

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa

William Drozdiak on Emmanuel Macron and the Future of Europe

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

The Spring 2022 Program

The 2017 Gala at The Met

The Fall 2021 Program

“Beyond the Lecture” Podcast with Claudia Rankine

The Spring 2019 Program

Museums, Architecture, and Social Engagement

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

Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

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

The 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The 2020-21 Berlin Prize Fellows

Remembering Madeleine Albright (1937−2022)

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

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

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

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

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…

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

James Kirchick on the End of Europe

Remembering George P. Shultz (1920-2021)

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

Singing to Glaciers

Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

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

The Winter 2019 Program

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

The Spring 2021 Program

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

Panel Discussion: US-German Relations One Year Later

The 2020-21 Berlin Journal

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”
