
The Spring 2022 Program
The spring 2022 schedule of events features lectures and readings by Academy fellows and Distinguished Visitors on topics ranging from the future of lithium production to EU-China relations, from to the curation of nineteenth-century public concerts to the legal history of “endless wars” and the forever pandemic of global tobacco, among much more.

The Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

Museums, Architecture, and Social Engagement

Welcoming the Fall 2019 Fellows

Singing to Glaciers

Angela Merkel Receives the Henry A. Kissinger Prize

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

The Fall 2019 Program

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

Berlin Journal 32

The Fall 2020 Program

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

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

The 2017 Gala at The Met

Remembering Richard K. Goeltz (1942-2020)

The 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellows

Remembering George P. Shultz (1920-2021)

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

Remembering Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

“Beyond the Lecture” Podcast with Claudia Rankine

The Spring 2021 Program

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

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

Remembering Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021)

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

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

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

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

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

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 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

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…

Remembering Madeleine Albright (1937−2022)

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

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

The 2020-21 Berlin Journal

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

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

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