
The Fall 2021 Program
The fall 2021 schedule of events features lectures and readings by Academy fellows and Distinguished Visitors on topics ranging from the Habsburg Empire to America’s Black queer history, from new fiction by Ladee Hubbard, Lan Samantha Chang, and Anthony Doerr, to the future of money, Merkel’s legacy, and the origins of intellectual property in German Renaissance art, among much more.
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Remembering Richard K. Goeltz (1942-2020)

Announcing the Carol Kahn Strauss Fellowship in Jewish Studies

The Spring 2019 Program

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

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

“Beyond the Lecture” Podcast with Claudia Rankine

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

Reception for “Our Man”

Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

The Fall 2019 Program

The Winter 2018 Program

Remembering Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021)

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

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

The Spring 2022 Program

The Fall 2019 Berlin Journal

The Fall 2022 Program

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

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

Angela Merkel Receives the Henry A. Kissinger Prize

The 2021-22 Berlin Journal

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

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

Welcoming the Fall 2019 Fellows

The 2022-23 Berlin Prize Fellows

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

The Fall 2020 Program

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

Remembering Berthold Leibinger (1930-2018)

William Drozdiak on Emmanuel Macron and the Future of Europe

The 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellows

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

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

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

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…

President Steinmeier Delivers the 2019 Fritz Stern Lecture

The 2022-23 Berlin Journal

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa
