
The Winter 2018 Program
From anti-sectarianism in the Middle East to surviving postwar Berlin, from the challenges of contemporary democracy to the sounds of migration, the winter 2018 program offers a range of topics to enlighten and inspire transatlantic discussion. Download the program here.
Image: Nora Al-Badri and Nikolai Nelles, Disentangled No. 1 (2017), detail

Welcoming the Spring 2018 Class of Fellows

New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin

Singing to Glaciers

Nina von Maltzahn (1941-2022)

Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows

Max Beckmann Talk with Arthur Jafa

Remembering Richard K. Goeltz (1942-2020)

Welcoming the Fall 2019 Fellows

The 2020-21 Berlin Journal

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 2018-19 Berlin Prize
BERLIN—April 25, 2018—The American Academy in Berlin has awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—to 24…

James Kirchick on the End of Europe

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

Gayatri Spivak at the American Academy

The Holbrooke Forum in Estonia

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

The 2020-21 Berlin Prize Fellows

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

The US Midterm Elections

Al Gore at the American Academy

The 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize

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

Timothy Snyder on Language and “Not-Even Fascism”

The Fall 2021 Program

Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time

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

Remembering Erivan Haub (1932-2018)

The Fall 2019 Berlin Journal

The Fall 2020 Program

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

Remembering Madeleine Albright (1937−2022)

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 Spring 2019 Program

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

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

Beyond “Wilkommenskultur”

The Spring 2022 Program

Remembering Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

Ben Rhodes on the Two American Stories
