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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG regularly hosts discussions with a journalist based in Berlin on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday\, April 20\, at 9:00 am for a Kaffeepause with Marc Felix Serrao\, Global Report for Axel Springer.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2017764393424%2FWN_8rhW20GfQECZlGAB6pCwrQ” css=”.vc_custom_1776439444372{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Marc Felix Serrao joined Axel Springer as a Global Reporter in January 2026. Prior to that\, he was the Editor-in-Chief Head for the Neue Züricher Zeitung from 2021 until 2025 and Head of the Berlin office from July 2017 until January 2021.  After military service\, he studied political science in Berlin. In 2004/05\, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York. He graduated in 2006.  Mr. Serrao worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 2007 to 2016 – first as a trainee\, then as deputy head of the society and style department. In 2015\, he began a part-time Executive MBA at the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU) and the Kellogg School of Management. From 2016 to 2017\, he served as the Business editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-event-whats-abuzz-in-berlin/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Discussion—Meet a Bundestag Member: German Politics Today
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany (ACG)\, the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)\, and the German Studies Association (GSA) have launched a new virtual series\, Meet a Bundestag Member: German Politics Today. The series offers students of German language and culture the chance to engage directly with members of the German Bundestag on timely political issues while practicing their German language skills. \nThe third session will take place on April 23 at 11:00 AM ET and will feature Deborah Düring (German Alliance 90/The Greens)\, who will join ACG President Dr. Steven E. Sokol for a 45-minute moderated discussion — held in German — incorporating questions posed by the audience. \nFollowing each event\, the conversations will also be released as podcasts\, making them easily accessible for members\, students\, and educators to use in the classroom. \n______________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDeborah Düring has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2021. Since January 2024 she has served as the foreign policy spokesperson for the Green parliamentary group. She previously served as spokesperson for development policy. She holds a bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in Social Sciences. She completed the master’s program “International Studies / Peace and Conflict Research” in 2025 at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt\, in cooperation with the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research (HSFK). Alongside her studies\, she worked at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) in the field of development cooperation and with the non governmental organization Survival International. Deborah Düring spent several years living and studying in Latin America\, including during a voluntary social year in an indigenous community in Costa Rica and during a semester abroad in Peru. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aatg.org%2Fevents%2Fmeet-a-bundestag-member-german-politics-today—deborah-dring-%2Fregister%3Fmc_cid%3D8cbecac94b%26mc_eid%3D1c45133e9d”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-discussion-meet-a-bundestag-member-german-politics-today/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T090000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event - Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG regularly hosts discussions with a journalist based in Berlin on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday\, April 27\, at 9:00 am for a Kaffeepause with Dr. Melanie Amann\, Digital Editor-in-Chief for FUNKE Mediengruppe.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F7817768923989%2FWN_onH_04XkTti9hhXD_NZkRw” css=”.vc_custom_1776892507656{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Melanie Amann is the Digital Editor-in-Chief for FUNKE Mediengruppe. Previously\, she was a Member of the Editorial Team at DER SPIEGEL. She studied Law in Trier\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Berlin\, and received her doctorate from the LMU Munich. From 2003 to 2004\, she spent a year at the German School of Journalism in Munich. After working as an editor at the Financial Times Deutschland\, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung\, she moved to SPIEGEL in Berlin in 2013. From February 2019 until September 2025\, she headed SPIEGEL’s capital city bureau\, together with Sebastian Fischer\, Christoph Hickmann\, and Martin Knobbe. She was a member of the editorial board from May 2021 until September 2025.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-event-kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-9/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T103000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event-  Special Edition Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]May 6 marks one year since the formation of the current German government led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Join us for a Special Edition of the Kaffeepause as we discuss the state of the Black-Red coalition one year in with journalists Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger and Anja Wehler-Schöck.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4017778405500%2FWN_9sK_dMe7Ry-k35AUoJDHBQ” css=”.vc_custom_1777840584576{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger was the Foreign Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His writings deal especially with the United States\, European\, transatlantic\, and international politics. He holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science\, Economics\, and American Studies from Frankfurt University. He joined the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, Germany’s leading national daily\, in 1986\, and served in various capacities\, as European\, International\, and Editorial Page Editor. Mr. Frankenberger was a Member of the Trilateral Commission and of the Scientific Council of the Institute for European Politics in Berlin. He also served on the Advisory Board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin and is associated with several organizations that deal with the transatlantic relationship.\nAnja Wehler-Schöck is the International Editor of the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and a member of its Editorial Board. In 2022\, she founded the paper’s international affairs desk\, which she subsequently headed until the end of 2024. Prior to that\, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IPG Journal\, a debate platform on international and European politics. She previously worked as a social affairs officer at the German Embassy in Washington and headed the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s office for Jordan and Iraq in Amman from 2012 to 2017. \nMs. Wehler-Schöck is a frequent commentator on international affairs\, European politics\, transatlantic relations\, and security policy. From 2005 to 2007\, she served as Adjunct Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin\, Germany. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Sciences Po in Paris\, France and the Free University of Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-event-special-edition-kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T090000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event - Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG regularly hosts discussions with a journalist based in Berlin on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday\, May 18\, at 9:00 am for a Kaffeepause with Jim Tankersley\, Berlin Bureau Chief of The New York Times.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Jim Tankersley is the Berlin Bureau Chief of The New York Times.  He oversees the coverage of Germany\, Austria\, and Switzerland\, and writes about broader trends across Europe. That includes stories about foreign policy\, society\, politics\, migration\, energy\, and more. Previously\, he covered economic and tax policy for the Times. In more than a decade covering politics and economics in Washington\, he has written extensively about the stagnation of the American middle class and the decline of economic opportunity in wide swaths of the country. \nMr. Tankersley was previously policy and politics editor at Vox and before that\, an economics reporter for The Washington Post. He covered the 2008 presidential campaign for The Chicago Tribune and began his career working for The Oregonian\, The Rocky Mountain News\, and The Toledo Blade. He and a Blade colleague won the 2007 Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of stories exploring how and why the Ohio economy declined so dramatically over a generation. He was part of a Blade team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service. In 2018\, he and two Times colleagues won the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing award for economics journalism\, for a series on the effects of President Trump’s trade policies on American companies and workers. \nA native of McMinnville\, Ore.\, Mr. Tankersley is a Stanford graduate and a former editor-in-chief of the Stanford Daily.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-event-kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-10/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T090000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event - Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG regularly hosts discussions with a journalist based in Berlin on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday\, June 1\, at 9:00 am for a Kaffeepause with Paul-Anton Krüger\, Editor for Der Spiegel.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Paul-Anton Krüger has been an Editor at SPIEGEL’s capital city office since January 2025. He was the Parliamentary Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of the Süddeutsche Zeitung from September 2021 to December 2024. He previously reported on political affairs and served as Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department\, focusing on the Middle East and international security for three years. Before that\, he spent four years in Cairo as a correspondent covering large parts of the Arab world and Iran. \nAfter graduating from the Alte Landesschule in Korbach\, he studied journalism in Berlin and Munich. In August 2005\, he joined the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a volunteer\, worked as an editor from 2008\, and as head of the foreign policy department from 2011. In the fall of 2007\, Mr. Krüger was a guest editor at the Chicago Tribune as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship\, the German-American journalism scholarship of the International Journalism Programs e.V.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Facgusa.us7.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D88eafb704e68ca3b7d186f951%26id%3Db655f56918%26e%3Dad9847d896″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-event-kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-11/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T090000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event - Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG regularly hosts discussions with a journalist based in Berlin on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday\, June 8\, at 9:00 am for a Kaffeepause with Brent Goff\, Chief Anchor at DW News.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4017806677950%2FWN_kYkloz_-SXi-xeHQTJku7Q” css=”.vc_custom_1780667872947{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Brent Goff is the Chief Anchor at DW News and Host of “The Day with Brent Goff.” He joined DW in 2000 and has become one of the most recognized on-air personalities. Prior to joining DW\, Brent worked as a producer for CNN. He was both a Fulbright Scholar and a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany.  Brent grew up in rural North Carolina\, and his first job in TV journalism was at a small TV station in Missouri. He holds an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/virtual-event-kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-12/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T110000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event - "Germany’s Most Pressing Issue: Economic and Social Reforms"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Germany’s coalition government of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats came into office a little more than a year ago\, recognizing that economic and social reforms are urgently needed to boost the country’s economic competitiveness\, address demographic change\, modernize public services\, and ensure inclusive growth. Already under the previous “traffic light” coalition led by the Social Democrats\, the need for fundamental reform was clear. \nJoin the ACG for a virtual discussion on Germany’s plans to implement key economic and social reforms with Martin Klingst\, who managed the Initiative for an Effective State\, a project founded by two former federal ministers\, a former president of the Federal Constitutional Court\, and a media executive\, from 2024 to 2025.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_WbBPIgjZQLO9zfcmxQLcVA%3Fmc_cid%3D27bdaeeaa7%26mc_eid%3D679c73a13a%23%2Fregistration” css=”.vc_custom_1781098793593{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Martin Klingst is a journalist and author who studied Law in Freiburg\, Geneva\, and Hamburg. He was a journalist at DIE ZEIT for 27 years\, working as a reporter\, senior political editor\, and U.S. correspondent. He also served as Head of Strategic Communications and Speeches for the German president. From 2024 to 2025\, he managed the Initiative for an Effective State\, which aimed to comprehensively reform the government and public administration. He is currently the Executive Director of the #EffectiveLocalGovernments network at the Hertie School. \nMr. Klingst has published three books: Menschenrechte (Human Rights)\, Trumps Amerika. Reise in ein weißes Land (Trump’s America: Journey to a White Country)\, and a biography of Guido Goldman\, a Harvard professor and founder of the German Marshall Fund: Guido Goldman: Transatlantic Bridge Builder.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-most-pressing-issue-economic-and-social-reforms/
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