Looking back at last Friday's Henry A. Kissinger Prize honoring @kajakallas.bsky.social, @evikasilina.bsky.social, & Ingrida Šimonytė—an evening of moving speeches, wide-ranging conversations, & a confident reaffirmation of our shared transatlantic values. Recap: buff.ly/43Uad0M

Tonight we proudly awarded the Henry A. Kissinger Prize to @kajakallas.bsky.social, High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy & @ec.europa.eu Vice-President, Former 🇪🇪 Prime Minister; @evikasilina.bsky.social, 🇱🇻 Prime Minister; & Ingrida Šimonytė, Former 🇱🇹 Prime Minister.

Ahead of his talk tomorrow night, head to our website and check out this year's Berlin Journal for an excerpt of spring fellow and New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's graphic novel "Einstein in Kafkaland:" buff.ly/O3NnZgt

📸 #2 Annette Hornischer

Academy trustee and @theatlantic.com editor Jeffrey Goldberg on 3sat's Kulturzeit last night to discuss that state of US media.

📺 Watch the interview here (starting at 4:35): buff.ly/cSgBRfe

Fascinating panel discussion about artificial intelligence and its role in the arts this week with playwright Ayad Akhtar, writer Daniel Kehlmann, and @theatlantic.com editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who moderated the event.

In cooperation with Deutsches Theater.

📸 Annette Hornischer

Thanks to @theatlantic.com staff writers George Packer & @anneapplebaum.bsky.social & the magazine's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg—leading voices in journalism & former Academy fellows—for a probing, scary, & inspiring panel discussion on the future of democracy in America. 📺: buff.ly/rGzEOqH

"Literature makes visible what mainstream discourses conceal," said spring 2025 fellow & German literature professor Agnes Mueller at her Academy talk about contemporary German–Jewish fiction by young post-Holocaust writers.

📺 Watch here: buff.ly/3F0rLWv

📸 Annette Hornischer

"The choices we make to invest in the resilience and robustness of [cyberspace] to then defend this space…is what will determine whether we go down the good path or the not good path," said Chris Inglis, Fmr National Cyber Director at the White House, at his talk about the future of cyber security.

Mueller's article looks at contemporary German fiction that aims to redefine Jewish-Muslin identities & Holocaust memory.

Read here: buff.ly/41s4ky1

Join her talk "Holocaust Migration: The Future of Memory" tonight in person or online: buff.ly/43h3Rjk

📸 #2: Annette Hornischer

"Germany’s memory culture may be flawed & insufficient in many ways. But young migrants have set their migratory experiences in Germany against the forever-present backdrop of Holocaust to create works of fiction that address the current moment," ✍️ spring fellow Agnes Mueller in the Berlin Journal.

"We really could be at a critical juncture in history right now."
Given Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's predatory mercantilism, & a second Trump presidential term, spring fellow & fmr "Foreign Affairs" editor Gideon Rose examined what might be necessary to protect Europe in decades to come.

Our latest Academy newsletter includes:
➡️talks by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie, former CDC director Rochelle Walensky, & New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein
➡️discussions with @theatlantic.com editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg
➡️a concert by Pamela Z in coop. w/ Berliner Festspiele