Berlin Journal

Series produced by The American Academy in Berlin

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These hour-long international specials features profiles and feature interviews with fellows of the American Academy in Berlin. Diplomats, writers, journalists, and more from George Packer to Calvin Trillin share their insights.

The Berlin Journal features interviews with fellows and guests of the American Academy in Berlin.

Past guests on The Berlin Journal have included:

George Packer of The New Yorker on President Obama's Afghanistan policy

Novelists Rivka Galchen, Adam Haslett, and Nathan Englander

Artist Amy Sillman on painting, film, and making 'zines

Art critic Hal Foster on the "bathetic, brutal, and banal" in modern art

Art historian Benjamin Buchloch on the abstraction of Gerhard Richter

Prize-winning journalists Anne Hull, Tamar Jacoby, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Historians Joel Harrington, Charles Marsh, Leora Auslander, and Mary Sarotte

Composers Daniel Visconti and Andrew Norman

Food writer Calvin Trillin takes a food tour of Berlin

Author Karen Russell on fiction and belief

The Berlin Journal is hosted by R. Jay Magill Jr. at the American Academy in Berlin and is produced by Sara Richards at NPR in Washington. The American Academy in Berlin was established in 1994 to foster greater understanding and dialog between the people of the United States and the people of Germany through its presence in Berlin, a city with which the United States shares unique cultural, political, and historical links.

The Academy, deemed by Der Spiegel  as “the most important place for American intellectual life outside of the United States," offers residential fellowships to both established and promising American scholars, writers, journalists, policymakers, and artists, encouraging them to pursue their work in a manner that fosters participation in the vibrant life of the German capital.
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The Berlin Journal features interviews with fellows and guests of the American Academy in Berlin. Past guests on The Berlin Journal have included: George Packer of The New Yorker on President Obama's Afghanistan policy Novelists Rivka Galchen, Adam Haslett, and Nathan Englander Artist Amy Sillman on painting, film, and making 'zines Art critic Hal Foster on the "bathetic, brutal, and banal" in modern art Art historian Benjamin Buchloch on the abstraction of Gerhard Richter Prize-winning journalists Anne Hull, Tamar Jacoby, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Historians Joel Harrington, Charles Marsh, Leora Auslander, and Mary Sarotte Composers Daniel Visconti and Andrew Norman Food writer Calvin Trillin takes a food tour of Berlin Author Karen Russell on... Show full description


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Caption: Richard C. Holbrooke
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:36