• Kaffeepause: What’s Abuzz in Berlin?

    Each week, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. Join us on Monday, October 11 at 9:00 am...

  • Twenty-Eighth Annual John J. McCloy Awards Dinner

    NYC Events

    The American Council on Germany’s Twenty-Eighth Annual John J. McCloy Awards Dinner honoring Oliver Bäte, Chairman of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, with the 2021 McCloy Award, and Robert...

  • After Angela: Germany in the Post-Merkel Era

    Chapter Events

    On September 26, Germans took to the polls in a historic election. Voters who have never known a Chancellor other than Angela Merkel voted for the first time. Change and...

  • History, Remembrance, and the Use of Public Space

    A few years after the Wall came down, the Berlin city government launched a competition for a work of public art honoring the memory of Berlin Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The conceptual artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock submitted their idea, and won the competition. In 1993, they installed Orte des Erinnerns (Places of Remembrance),...

  • Kaffeepause: What’s Abuzz in Berlin?

    Each week, the ACG hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse in Berlin. Join us on Monday, October 18 at 9:30 am ET to discuss populist movements in Germany and the recent resignation of Sebastian Kurz in Austria with Emily Schultheis, freelance journalist and recent fellow with the...