Robert

Shiller
Finance and the
Good Society
Der Tagesspiegel
AMERICAN
ACADEMY
THE FELLOWS AND VISITORS OF THE
2012-2013 ACADEMIC YEAR
John
Kornblum
The Future US
Foreign Policy
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
VOLUME 68 / NR. 21 453
The euphoria about the triumph of
democracy and capitalism "the
end of history" in the wake of the
fall of the Berlin Wall has dissipa-
ted in the face of realities of global
developments. The East-West con-
flict has been replaced with a plet-
hora of fundamental global challen-
ges, whether the nigh unfathoma-
ble complexity of our economic
and financial systems, the inexora-
ble deterioration of the environ-
ment, the depletion of finite natural
resources, demographic change,
and or the multitude of security
challenges.
This has lamentably been accom-
panied by a growing cleavage in the
moral consensus our nations deve-
loped in the postwar epoch. A cur-
rent example is the obstructive be-
havior of two major powers to put a
stop to the bloodshed and barba-
rism in Syria. Old thinking is ram-
pant. It is an illusion to believe, as
one sometimes hears in the US and
Europe, we can survive a return to
the political constellations and
their intrigues and national self-cen-
teredness of the early 20th century.
At the American Academy in Ber-
lin, we meet these challenges
through research and dialogue. Our
experts study the realities of trans-
formation, such as the persistence
of authoritarianism in countries
like China or Bulgaria, and think
about the realizable in lieu of inter-
national consensus, developing pro-
posals to strengthen, and then har-
monize, key national policy structu-
res to save the environment. One
working group will address the
shortcomings of late liberalism,
bringing scholars and policymakers
together; another will address the
consequences of our moral vocabu-
lary in public affairs, the idleness of
moral talk without real-world conse-
quences.
These are all essential and diffi-
cult questions, underscoring the im-
perative that America and Europe
stand together has lost none of its
force in our era. Neither the US nor
Europe, and especially Germany,
can shape the future alone.
Gary Smith
The author is Executive Director
of the American Academy in Berlin
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It all started in a back room of the Berlin
Kempinski in 1994. The "cabal" consisted
of people like Henry Kissinger, Otto Graf
Lambsdorff, Fritz Stern, and Richard von
Weizscker. And Richard Holbrooke, the
American ambassador, without whom the
Academy would never have gotten off the
ground in 1998. There is an English word,
borrowed fromGerman andYiddish, for ty-
pes like him: Macher.
The mission they all chose to accept was
"New Traditions." The last American sol-
dier would soon be gone; Berlin was "whole
and free" again. The Academy would add a
wholly new layer to the foundation laid
down in the Cold War, when the Berlin Bri-
gade stood guard in the divided city. Ideas
insteadof infantry, andwords insteadof we-
apons, so to speak.
Holbrooke, who was about to depart for
Washington as the State Department's Di-
rector of European Affairs, snagged the first
few million for operating expenses and for
the magnificent villa on the Wannsee. The
building and the park had belonged to the
Arnhold family before they were driven out
by the Nazis. The newowner nicely symbo-
lized Germany's postwar rebirth as a liberal
and inclusive democracy. This was the
house that the Nazis had grabbed, giving it
to Walther Funk, the economics minister
and Reichsbank president of the Third
Reich. Now the Hans Arnhold Center
would serve a very different mission.
The Academy would bring the best of
American culture to Berlin: scholars, wri-
ters, poets, directors, conductors thinkers
and doers of outstanding talent and re-
nown. And it would do so without a penny
of government largesse. When the German
Bundestag offered to chip in a million
marks, the board politely declined. This
was going tobe done inthe "Americanway"
as a strictly private venture in a country
where high culture has always been funded
by the state, starting with the princes and
potentates of pre-Reich Germany. There
are no officials, German or American, on
the board.
Miraculously, it worked. Corporate and
foundation giving has made the Academy
what it is today, 14 years after it opened its
doors: a beacon of American intellectual
life. Rigorously selected Fellows come to
work on the Wannsee for three to nine
months. Inbetween, there are short-termvi-
sitors who give lectures and seminars. Yet
an ivory tower the Academy is not. The Fel-
lows go out into the city to engage the pu-
blic at large. American policy makers come
tothe Hans ArnholdCenter tosubject them-
selves to a demanding give and take.
Acentral part of the "newtraditions" is to
reaffirmthe oldones withthe annual Kissin-
ger Prize. It goes to statesmen who repre-
sent reconciliation and friendship between
Germany and the United States. The most
recent historical figure so honored was
George Shultz, the former Secretary of
State. The laudatio was delivered by Hel-
mut Schmidt, who was the first recipient, in
2007. He was followed by presidents, chan-
cellors, andmayors: George H. W. Bush, Ri-
chard von Weizscker, Michael Bloomberg,
and Helmut Kohl.
It is difficult to find anything like the Aca-
demy anywhere else. The world is full of
conferences, thinktanks, institutes of advan-
cedstudy, andstate-sponsoredcultural cen-
ters like Maison de France and the Goe-
the-Institut. The Hans Arnhold Center is all
of the above, and yet more. It does generate
research, public lectures, seminars, and
master classes in music, but it also engages
the world by drawing it in. The place is "eli-
tist," but not for the elite. It is open to each
and all, and they come from all over Ger-
many to listen, learn, and debate. Think of
yesteryear's Berlin salons, but without the
barriers of birthandriches. It is a fittingme-
morial to founder Richard Holbrooke, that
doer and thinker, who died in 2010.
The author is publisher of the German
weekly Die Zeit and a trustee of the Ameri-
can Academy in Berlin
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A Beacon of American
Intellectual Life
In the fourteen years since it
opened its doors, in 1998, the
Academy has become one of
Europes most visible and
effective institutions of
transatlantic dialogue.
It is a fitting legacy to the
work and life of its founder,
the late Richard C.Holbrooke
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Rarely has an election campaign in the Uni-
tedStatesbeenasconfrontational astherace
for the Presidency in 2012. One needs togo
back as far as the late 1960s to recall an
electionsofilledwithanger andpersonal at-
tacks as thevotetobeheldonNovember 6.
And there is good reason for this. As is
the case today, the 1968 campaign fell in
the midst of a deep social and political con-
frontation. Foreign policy played only a se-
condary role in the debate. But tempers
were raised because of the war in Vietnam.
Forty-four years later, the UnitedStates is
again experiencing generational conflict
and is burdened by the legacy of terrible
wars. Only this time it is the older genera-
tion which is revolting against the percei-
ved failures of leaders a generation younger
than they are. Again, foreign policy plays a
secondary role, but as in 1968, the reaction
against foreign commitments is strong.
Such a situation is confusing and perhaps
unnerving for America's allies and those
who wish for American leadership. But the
experience of the last round of internal con-
flict andforeignentrenchment does not give
reasonfordespair.Infact,Americanself-con-
fidencerecoveredrelativelyfastasthe1970s
woreon. Bythetimeof theReaganAdminis-
trationin1981, things hadprogressedtothe
pointwherefearofAmericanstrengthhadre-
placedworries over its weakness.
If history is going to be of any assistance
this time, it will be important to remember
the foundations of American influence in
those years and to compare them with the
tools at our disposal this time around.
First, it is important to remember that
neither economic strength nor military rea-
diness were the reasons for the recovery of
American influence. The economic pro-
blems of the 1970s were if anything greater
than the difficulties of today. Germany was
a pillar of stabilityinthe 1970s anda weake-
ned America looked to it, unsuccessfully,
for support. Despite several military chal-
lenges, American military strength really
did not recover until the mid-1980s. There
was no confidence in our ability to take on
newchallenges. But it was America and not
Germanywhichledthe road intothe future.
The rebirth of American influence came
throughthe uncannyabilityof Americanso-
ciety to find creative solutions to new pro-
blems. It was the products of American so-
ciety that led to a growing global role, not
the strength of our diplomacy or military
forces.
Despite his weak reputation today, Jimmy
Carter was in the forefront of exploring the
issues that would be important in the fu-
ture. Humanrights, values, relations among
ethnic communities, andcare for thedevelo-
ping world were all themes he added to the
foreign policy agenda.
Carter's proposals for limits on sales of
conventional arms are just beginning to
find acceptance 35 years later. Carter also
pushed establishment of the Helsinki Final
Act as a charter for relations among nati-
ons. He pushedfor acceptance of the princi-
ple that a country's treatment of its citizens
withinits borders was a legitimate matter of
international concern. These principles
serve us well to this day.
It is also forgotten that it was Carter who
pushed through the dual-track decision on
intermediate-range missiles that drew the
Soviets into the last big military confronta-
tionof the ColdWar period. Without Ameri-
can and German firmness on this issue,
there would have been no reunification.
RememberingCarterisuseful, becausehe
demonstrateshowevenso-calledweakpresi-
dents can innovate by using the strengths of
American society. American society produ-
cesasortofspontaneouscombustionthatari-
ses from within its national life. Through a
unique mixture of American hard and soft
power, both friends and opponents of Ame-
rica are drawn together almost randomly
andsubjectedtoAmericaninfluence.
The unique mixture of peoples and cultu-
res that defines the American narrative so-
mehow repeatedly stakes out new directi-
ons. The most recent example? Barack Hus-
sein Obama.
If this is the case, where should we look
for those special American recipes for the
future? Here is a short list of areas where I
think America will again show its capacity
to lead:
-- Global America: As in the past, the Uni-
ted States remains the magnet for talent
from all over the world. America is a bree-
ding ground for ideas. By 2040, our popula-
tion will no longer have a European majo-
rity. We are drawing people from the new,
dynamic regions as fast as we can.
-- Military America: In contrast to the
1970s, America's military forces are stron-
ger than ever and more powerful than those
of the rest of the world put together. Size, of
course, does not mean wisdom. But the
strength to keep order will be there.
-- Innovative America: In 1980, experts
werebemoaningthedeclineofAmericaneco-
nomicstrengthinthefaceof Japanesecentral
planningjust astheyarecomparinguspoorly
withtheChinesetoday.ButjustasApplebeco-
mes the most valuable company of all time,
and as biotech research migrates from Eu-
Who can forget Obamas
stirring speech in Berlin?
American Academy 2012_Der Tagesspiegel_September_14_2012_4
US military strength didnt
recover until the mid-1980s
By John C. Kornblum
There is only one winner. Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney are in a
head-to-head race. The future of the
US foreign policy is of great interest
to Europe. Photos: AFP (2), Reuters
Towards
a Global Atlantic
The 2012 Presidential election
has been fraught with
ideological division.
But American capacity to lead
the globalized world
in addressing common
security, economic,
and leadership challenges is
ascendant and necessary
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rope to the United States, and as green-tech-
nology companies are returning to America
fromChina, we can see that the special mix-
ture of stability and freedomthat characteri-
zes American society has not ceased to
function. The successors of Steve Jobs and
Bill Gatesareundoubtedlyalreadyat work.
-- Leadership America: Who can forget
Barack Obama's stirring speech in Berlin
four years ago? There is something in Ame-
rican society that focuses on tasks and get-
ting the job done. Winston Churchill once
said that Americans have the self-confi-
dencetotrymanysolutions toa problembe-
fore finding one that works. This talent has
not been lost.
But there are many new challenges to
American leadership today that did not
exist in 1980. What should Allies do to
make sure this leadership serves their pur-
poses as well?
Let'sget downtobasics: TheAtlanticAlli-
ance provides a world-class economic
power such as Germany with global pro-
tection at an affordable price, which cannot
befoundelsewhere. WithEurope becoming
increasingly fragmented, only a strengthe-
ned transatlantic community can offer Ger-
many the means both to meet competition
fromemergingindustrial powers andtodeal
withthedangers of regional conflicts.
Europe's great advantage over other parts
of the world is its role as the home of Wes-
tern values. In the multi-polar, networked
world of the future, only the open, flexible
Western system of social organization will
be able tomanage the complex newstructu-
res which will emerge. But these skills can
only be utilized together with America and
not in opposition, which has been the case
so often in the past.
As global networks expand, Europe's cen-
tralgeographicposition,highlydevelopedin-
frastructure, and commercial skills should
enableittohelpleadtheAtlanticworldtogro-
winginfluenceacross theglobe.
First on the agenda should be building
such a global Atlantic. The eminent Ger-
man management consultant Hermann Si-
mon has defined this new sort of commu-
nity: "Transatlantica."
BuildingTransatlantica rather thandeepe-
ning the European Union is the real mission
for Europeans in the 21st century. It can be
the foundation for global political as well as
economic influence. Above all, it can help
ensure that Western values form the opera-
ting system of the vast new high-speed net-
works which are being expanded every day.
The author is a former US ambassador to
Germany and a trustee of the American Aca-
demy in Berlin
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Debates about capitalism and the good so-
ciety, from Karl Marx's incendiary criti-
cisms in the nineteenth century through
Milton Friedman's spirited defenses of free
markets in the twentieth, have tended to
center on industrial capitalism: the system
of production, banking, and trade that sha-
ped modern society up through the end of
World War II. But the past several decades
have witnessed the rise of financial capita-
lism: a system in which finance, once the
handmaiden of industry, has taken the lead
as the engine driving capitalism. The cur-
rent severe financial crisis has called forth
questions not only about the system's parts
but also about financial capitalism as a
whole.
This crisis dubbed by Carmen Rein-
hart and Kenneth Rogoff as the "Second
Great Contraction," a period of weakened
economies around the world starting in
2007 but continuing for years after, mirro-
ringthe Great Contractionthat followedthe
financial crisis of 1929 has led to angry
rejections of the value of financial capita-
lism.
Given this experience, many wonder,
What is the role of finance in the good so-
ciety? How can finance, as a science, a
practice, and a source of economic innova-
tion, be used to advance the goals of the
good society? How can finance promote
freedom, prosperity, equality, and econo-
mic security? How can we democratize fi-
nance, so as to make it work better for all of
us?
At its broadest level, finance is the sci-
ence of goal architecture of the structu-
ring of the economic arrangements neces-
sary to achieve a set of goals and of the ste-
wardshipof the assets neededfor that achie-
vement. The goals may be those of house-
holds, small businesses, corporations, civic
institutions, governments, and of society it-
self. Once an objective has been specified
such as payment for a college education,
a couple's comfortable retirement, the ope-
ning of a restaurant, the addition of a new
wing on a hospital, the creation of a social
security system, or a trip to the moon the
parties involved need the right financial
tools, and often expert guidance, to help
achieve the goal. In this sense, finance is
analogous to engineering.
It is a curious and generally overlooked
fact that the very wordfinance actually deri-
ves from a classical Latin term for "goal."
The dictionary tells us that the word deri-
ves from the classical Latin word finis,
whichis usuallytranslatedas endor comple-
tion. One dictionary notes that finis develo-
ped into the word finance since one aspect
of finance is the completion, or repayment,
of debts. But it is convenient for our purpo-
ses torecall that finis, even in ancient times,
was also used to mean "goal," as with the
modern English word end.
Most people define finance more nar-
rowly. Yet financing anactivityreallyis crea-
ting the architecture for reaching a
goal and providing stewardship to pro-
tect and preserve the assets needed for the
achievement and maintenance of that goal.
The goals servedbyfinance originate wit-
hin us. They reflect our interests in careers,
hopes for our families, ambitions for our
businesses, aspirations for our culture, and
ideals for our society; finance inandof itself
does not tell us what the goals should be.
Finance does not embody a goal.
Finance is not about "making money" per
se. It is a "functional" science in that it
exists to support other goals those of the
society. The better aligned a society's finan-
cial institutions are withits goals andideals,
the stronger and more successful the so-
ciety will be. If its mechanisms fail, finance
has the power to subvert such goals, as it
did in the subprime mortgage market of the
past decade. But if it is functioning properly
it has a unique potential to promote great
levels of prosperity.
The attainment of significant goals and
the stewardship of the assets needed for
their achievement almost always require
the cooperation of many people. Those
people have topool their informationappro-
priately. They must ensure that everyone's
incentives are aligned. Imagine the develop-
ment of a new laboratory, the funding of a
medical research project, the building of a
newuniversity, or the construction of a new
city subway system.
Finance provides structure to these and
other enterprises and institutions throug-
hout society. If finance succeeds for all of
us, it helps to build a good society. The bet-
ter we understand this point, the better we
will grasp the need for ongoing financial in-
novation.
Excerpt from: Finance and the Good So-
ciety (Princeton University Press, 2012).
The author is Arthur M. Okun Professor of
Economics, Department of Economics and
Cowles Foundation for Research in Econo-
mics at Yale University; Professor of Finance
and Fellow at the International Center for Fi-
nance at the Yale School of Management; and
the fall 2012 Allianz Distinguished Visitor at
the American Academy in Berlin
If finance succeeds
for all of us, it helps
to build a good society
American Academy 2012_Der Tagesspiegel_September_14_2012_6
Good in principle:
A financial system
that actually works
serves the develop-
ment of innovation
in society not just
itself. Photo: Reuters
By Robert J. Shiller
Finance and
the Good Society
Finance should be defined
not merely as the
manipulation of money or the
management of risk. We need
to envision new ways to
rechannel financial creativity
to benefit society as a whole.
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Economists and politicians have long as-
sumed that there are really only two
sectors for governing things and "adding
value" the state and the market. Mar-
kets are seen as the vehicle for economic
progress while the state deals with gover-
nance and everything else.
It is becoming increasingly clear, ho-
wever, that there is another sector the
commons that is at least as important
to our lives and well-being. The com-
mons consists of those many resources
that we share the atmosphere, water,
public spaces, the Internet, scientific
knowledge, cultural works, and much
more as well as the social systems and
rule-sets that we use to manage them in
fair, sustainable ways.
For decades, the prevailing economic
wisdom was that a commons inevitably
results in the over-exploitation of the re-
source a "tragedy of the commons," as
popularized by biologist Garrett Hardin
in a famous 1968 essay. The late Nobel
Laureate Elinor Ostrom debunked this
ideaoverthecourseof decades. Shedocu-
mented how self-organized commons
canbe effective anddurable inmanaging
farmland, fisheries, forests, irrigationwa-
ter, and other resources. It has since be-
come clear that the commons is also be-
hind the success of open-source soft-
ware, Wikipedia, academic research,
bloodbanks, andcommunity gardens.
One of the great, unacknowledgedpro-
blems of our time is that countless com-
mons are now being converted into tra-
deable market commodities a process
that is often called "market enclosure."
Enclosures enshrine price as the ulti-
mate measure of value, trumping more
qualitative, intangible values that may
be ecological, social, or long-term.
For example, global investors are now
seizing millions of hectares of farmland,
pastures and waterways in Africa, Asia,
and Latin America with the help of com-
plicit governments. By the logic of the
market, this is enormous progress be-
cause it puts "wastelands" to productive
use in the market and boosts Gross Do-
mestic Product. But for the commoners
involved, the market takeover of com-
mon lands is a simple act of disposses-
sion. It also has devastating consequen-
ces for the natural environment. The lo-
gicof enclosuretakesplaceinmanydiffe-
rent realms. It occurs, for example, when
the Disney Company claims trademarks
infolkcharactersorwhenbiotechcompa-
nies patent seeds that traditional peoples
have shared for centuries.
The language of the commons gives
us a way to recognize the proper limits
of market logic and to recognize the
highly generative powers of the com-
mons.
The commons is no "tragedy"; it is, rat-
her, a different way of managing resour-
ces and creating value. It's time that we
recognized these unheralded systems
for stewarding our shared resources and
nurturing our social commitments to
each other.
The author is an activist, blogger, and
independent scholar; co-founder and prin-
cipal of the Commons Strategy Group;
and a Bosch Public Policy Fellow
Commons Future
The commons provide a
new way to manage
resources and create
value, and to nurture
our social commitments
to each other.
By David Bollier
Corporate shovelling for
scarce resources: Two
managers from the In-
dian company Karuti in-
spect the corn yield at
their plant in central Et-
hiopia. Photo: Reuters
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Holtzbrinck Fellow. Dance will not be the reason for the
New Yorker dance critic's stay in Berlin. Joan Acocella co-
vers a broader spectrum: In 1992 she received a
Front-Page Award for her essay about the one-sided con-
temporary reception of the author Willa Cather, which she
later expanded into the book Willa Cather and the Poli-
tics of Criticism. Numerous publications followed, often
tracing the relations between artistic and public life worlds
as does her latest publication, Twenty-eight Artists
and Two Saints, which explores the shared values of ex-
ceptional artists. Her current project is tentatively entitled
"Crime and Punishment," which focuses on artistic ap-
proaches to the so-called "bad guys." Essays about Judas
Iscariot and Dracula have already been written. In Berlin,
Acocella will devote herself to the TV series The Sopranos.
Siemens Fellow. The complex research of the legal
scholar and political scientist from Duke University is
probably best summarized as questions: How can we
establish a stable democracy, human rights, and
peace in societies riveted by ethnic conflicts? Can a
set of instruments be assembled to put such coun-
tries on a road to recovery? Which institutions are ne-
cessary for this task? And what local conditions
need to be accounted for with these "prescriptions"?
In Berlin, Horowitz aspires to answer these questi-
ons through detailed case studies from Northern Ire-
land, Cyprus, Bosnia, and Fiji.
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow. An American traveling
to Berlin to translate a Russian author into English;
this makes sense when you consider that the "50
New Stories" by Mikhail Bulgakov were first published
in a German magazine. Without doubt the translator
Peter Constantine will do an excellent job: His
translations of Sophocles, Gogol, Tolstoy, and
Dostoevsky have received extraordinary accolades,
including, in 2007, the Helen-und-Kurt-Wolff Transla-
tor's Prize for his translation of Benjamin Lebert's
"Der Vogel ist Rabe."
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JOAN ACOCELLA
DONALD L. HOROWITZ
Axel Springer Fellow. Does Saba Mah-
mood know that this summer Germany
witnessed a fervid discussion about a
topic central to her current research?
Perhaps Mahmood will offer a solution
to the German circumcision debate
through her work on the limits and pro-
mises of the right to religious liberty
especially during moments of social
change and the interaction with other
fundamental rights, such as the right
to physical integrity. The anthropolo-
gist from the University of California at
Berkeley will surely come equipped
with many interesting ideas for her
host country. Her earlier work is on the
conflict between Islam and feminism,
as well as between free speech and
religious sensitivities.
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Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the
Visual Arts. Aging, disparity, and dis-
location - the oevre of the New York-
based artist is closely linked to
these phenomena that shape the
visual appearance of everyday life in
contemporary American cities. Junk
cars, flat tires, yellowed books Wil-
liam Cordova employs them as mate-
rial as well as iconographic state-
ments. His agenda for Berlin? A pro-
posed project entitled "Materiality
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rian" hints at an engagement with
the renowned Cuban painter and
filmmaker.
WILLIAMCORDOVA
Fotos: American Academy, private
John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities. No one
can deny that the abolition of torture is a milestone on
the path towards a civilized society. But how did this
hallmark decision occur? J. M. Bernstein, a philoso-
pher at the New School for Social Research, will inves-
tigate that question in his project "Torture and Dig-
nity." His thesis: The abolition of torture reflects a dee-
per ethical development that bestows the body with a
different meaning: as belonging to an inviolable indivi-
dual. This awareness illustrates first and foremost
that pain has a meaning, transforming its deliberate
causes it into immoral acts.
German Transatlantic Program Fel-
low. In 2011, the director of the Eisen-
berg Institute of Historical Studies at
the University of Michigan published
the book A Question of Genocide, in
which he dealt with the causes of the
Armenian massacre. In Berlin, he will
further investigate the "why" of this ge-
nocide. His point of departure: Instead
of making singular national or religious
conflicts responsible for the mass
slaughter, Suny emphasizes a narra-
tive of perceived threat, which made
the annihilation of Armenians appear
to Turks as a measure of rational
self-protection.
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J. M. BERNSTEIN
Holtzbrinck Fellow. Today, "Zio-
nism" is perhaps the dirtiest word
in left-wing discourse, writes the
director of the Cultural Reporting
and Criticism Program at New York
University in the description of her
project "Israel and the Left." But
how exactly did this repudiation
come about? Linfield wants to
break with the model that focuses
solely on Israel's aggression
against the Palestinians since the
late 1960s, and rather look at
what kind of developments within
the Left have lead to the discredi-
ting of Zionism.
RONALD SUNY
Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual
Arts. During his stay in Berlin, the artist
will spend much of his time in Kreuzberg
because the collection of the Schwules Mu-
seum, located on Mehringdamm, is central
to his project. Hawkins wants to investigate
how gay artists have worked within a hetero-
normative (art) world, whether through
re-contextualization of works in collages, or
by their fetishization in sketchbooks. An es-
say and an exhibition, based on the col-
lection at the Schwules Museum, will con-
clude his stay.
SUSIE LINFIELD
Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow. An "unlikely en-
counter" is what the Islamic scholar and poli-
tical scientist calls his current project, a mo-
nograph entitled "Before the Ruins: When
Darwish met Benjamin," a subtle conversa-
tion between two unlikely interlocutors on
one side, Walter Benjamin, a German philo-
sopher of Jewish descent; on the other, the
late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish,
who passed away in 2008. Antoon's thesis:
Benjaminian conceptions of time and history
and how they are represented in literature
characterize Darwish's poetry and can be
traced through his works.
Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in His-
tory. His stay in Berlin will be used
for nothing less than his lifetime's
work: While Ernst Bernbaum from
Harvard University opened the field
for the study of Comapartive Arts in
various publications, Daniel Albright
is set to advance the field through a
groundbreaking new book exploring
the interplay between architecture
and music, among others, by discus-
sing Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Schau-
spielhaus of 1821.
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in
Fiction. Her first novel, Schooling (2001),
made it into Peter Boxall's list "1001
Books You Must Read Before You Die." In
Berlin, she will work on her third novel, en-
titled The Black Paintings. It will break with
its predecessors by abandoning the per-
spective of the individual and immerse it-
self in the middle of a group intercon-
nected through the illegal trade of cultural
property. What remains, perhaps even
more pronounced than before, is her pas-
sion for the art of narration, the constant
meta-reflection about one's own actions.
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HEATHER MCGOWAN
Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History. The Frede-
rick Marquand Professor of Art and Architecture at
Princeton University is working toward an ambi-
tious goal: Creating nothing less than an art his-
tory of the New World. While in Berlin he will work
on exciting era the 16th through the 18th centu-
ries when Europeans began to develop, in Kauf-
mann's words, "a network of exchange" that resul-
ted in the "first globalization" of art.
Daimler Fellow. The "German part" of a puzzle is
the answer the political scientist at Boston College
seeks to find in Berlin. He could succeed, since Lau-
rence has identified the predominantly Muslim Tur-
key and Morocco one a democracy, the other a con-
stitutional monarchy as role models subsequent
the Arab Spring. A part of his research into these
systems will derive from interviewing people who
have emigrated from those countries to Germany
and Berlin.
Siemens Fellow. "I, Me, Mine: Back
to Kant, and Back Again" That is
the title of the work the Silver Profes-
sor of Philosophy at New York Univer-
sity wants to work on while in Berlin.
For the renowned Kant expert, it is
about how self-awareness changes
with the use of the indicative pronoun
"I." That the "I" of the Kantian "I
think" is something other than
Freud's "I" under the "super-ego," is
obvious. For everything else there will
be Longuenesses's book.
Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow. The
question to be investigated by the
professor of English and Compara-
tive Literature at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles
cannot be answered plainly. What
"kitsch" actually is remains highly
controversial. Tiffany's work will
illustrate the uniqueness of that
concept in a more nuanced fa-
shion, seeking out kitsch in places
where poetry confines it to clich
and excludes it from the dis-
course.
THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN
BATRICE LONGUENESSE
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FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
Dirk Ippen Fellow. Even though the
subject of this Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity philosopher is highly abstract, his
thesis is rather clear-cut: It is a "grave
misconception" that Hegel assumes
law to be the conscience of the public
sphere. Moyar says that rather than
laws transubstantiating the universal
into each individual, Hegel's thought
process focused on laws being tangen-
tial to the conscience itself.
Berlin Prize Fellow in Music Composition.
During his stay, the Berlin Prize in Music
Composition Fellow will compose in two diffe-
rent ways: First, he will devote himself to se-
veral works, among them a work for 24 voi-
ces and live electronics, commissioned by
the renowned Crossing Choir of Philadelphia.
Second, Coleman wants to broaden his Ber-
lin network and reach out to a variety of ar-
tists, including the composer Oliver Schnel-
ler and the ensemble United Berlin.
GENE A. COLEMAN
Bosch Public Policy Fellow. The Bosch Public Policy Fellow is an
unusual Academy guest. As an author, activist, and co-founder of
the Commons Strategy Group, Bollier is neither affiliated with a uni-
versity nor with a professorship. Instead, he is a leading figure of
the "Commons" movement dedicated to the collaborative develop-
ment of open-source software. From Berlin he wants to cooperate
closely with the key-figures of the peer European movement. Anot-
her goal: A paper on the movement's future as a model of a partici-
patory "movement of movements" that promotes emancipatory
concerns, such as ecology and social justice worldwide.
Axel Springer Fellow. The interplay of sym-
bolic and material changes; the history of
Judeo-Christian relations the historian
from Yale University fuses these two
fields. To understand how general attitu-
des towards the credit system in the 17th
and 18th century changed, Trivellato wants
to critically examine the legend that Jews
in the Middle Ages invented capitalism.
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DEAN MOYAR
Bosch Public Policy Fellow. How
do religious practices, technolo-
gies, and community influence
each other? These questions are
posed by the Berkeley cultural an-
thropologist in relation to communi-
ties in the Middle East and sout-
hern Europe. In Berlin, Hirschkind
wants to illuminate the impact of
Spain's Islamic past on the cur-
rent Spanish debate over national
identity in the face of immigration
from Muslim countries.
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HANS R. VAGET
Bosch Public Policy Fellow. What means
are available to young people to advance
their interests in society, and how can they
be supported in doing so? These are two
of the foremost concerns of the New York
University political scientist. To be heard in
a political discourse, young people, Su
claims, must develop specific strategies.
The extent to which youth-support differs
in the EU from that in the US is one of the
focal points of her work in Berlin.
CHARLES HIRSCHKIND
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow. How did Wilhelmine Berlin influence
the Russian avant-garde movement? The project of the Dean of
the Slavic Institute at Princeton University could provide some in-
sight. For the biography of Vyacheslav Ivanov, Wachtel follows the
traces of the Symbolists, leading to his subjects study of ancient
history in in 1886 Berlin.
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Berthold Leibinger Fellow. The book project un-
dertaken by the Professor Emeritus for German
Studies at Smith College during his time in Ber-
lin is likely to cause a stir in Germany. Based on
all currently available sources of Thomas
Mann's American exile, Vaget's work will be the
first in-depth study of Mann's relationship with
President Roosevelt and the authors efforts to
bring America into the war.
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The Cologne Court's decision to halt
non-medical circumcisions earlier this sum-
mer marks a new lowfor religious freedom
in 21st century Europe. It is the latest dip in
a slipperyslopethat beganwiththecondem-
nation of burkas and other forms of extre-
mism but has landed squarely in the main-
streamof religious practice.
In January, Dutch MPs called Islamic
headscarves "a symbol of oppression."
Months later, the French Prime Minister
suggested rethinking "ancestral traditions
that are out of sync with the modern era,"
suchas ritual animal slaughter. After the Co-
logne ruling, hospitals in Switzerland and
Austria also suspended circumcisions. Last
month, a Norwegian official proposed rai-
sing to fifteen the minimum age at which a
boy may undergo the procedure in direct
contravention of Muslim and Jewish rite.
Ironically, these debates have sharpened at
the very moment when European coun-
tries, led by Germany, had begun to make
space for its newest citizens'' "ancestral tra-
ditions" alongside their own. As in neighbo-
ring countries, the German government
realized it couldn't do without a legitimate
administrative partner if it was to assure the
same rights and corresponding state over-
sight enjoyed by other recognized religi-
ons practiced by German citizens. Before
the establishment of state-mosque relati-
ons, expansion of religious rights for Mus-
lims in Germany happened largely in the
courts, anarduous andtime-consumingpro-
cess that took for granted an adversarial ad-
ministration.
Throughinstitutions like the Deutsche Is-
lamKonferenz (DIK), federal and local aut-
horities have assumed ownership of
state-mosque relations. To Chancellor Mer-
kel's credit, the DIK is arguably Europe's
most successful example of its kind. Its six
years in existence have sent a strong signal
to the real protagonists of religious integra-
tion under the constitution local adminis-
trators to engage and incorporate Islamic
associations in their own cities and towns.
As a result, for example, North-Rhine West-
phalia implementedlarge-scale Islamic edu-
cation in public schools, and Hamburg con-
cluded an historic concordat with its Mus-
limcommunities.
At this moment of generational change, ho-
wever, public debate has not helped obser-
vant Muslims blend into their newinstitutio-
nal contexts. Politicians perpetuate common-
places and manufacture debates, ranging
fromthe claimMuslims engage in willful de-
ceit, to accusations of child endangerment or
animal torture. Far-right groups repeatedly
taunt mosque-goers with the prophet car-
toons that caricature Muhammad, someti-
mes provoking major urban unrest.
Questioning whether Islam "belongs" to
Germany is nowhere near the same register
as unerwnscht of the bad old days. Nor does
it represent much progress in the decades
since "Deutschland ist kein Einwanderungs-
land" or "Kinder statt Inder." These slogans
contribute to the perception of a hostile state
and society that Muslimminorities are being
asked to "integrate" into with a smile.
Despite the importance of robust debate
toa well-functioning diverse society, the cir-
cumcision moratorium signifies a qualitati-
vely different threat. Unlike the case of
head coverings or halal meat, opposition
isn't motivated by fears of conquest or the
desire to consign religion to the "private
sphere" (It's hardtothink of a more discreet
profession of faith.) Instead, the ban signals
a frontal attack on the religion itself - and
like the proposed restrictions on halal
slaughter, it ensnares Jews as well.
It is not unreasonable to assume that reli-
gious practices will continue to evolve as a
function of place and circumstance, if the
exampleof 19thcenturyJudaismprovides a
glimpse of what to expect. Many Muslims
in the West have started donating to charity
instead of carrying out ritual slaughter at fe-
ast time. The sightings of the moon that set
Ramadan's start and end are increasingly li-
kelytorelyonEuropeanmeasurements. Eu-
ropean Muslims have begun theological
doctorates at local universities, and imams
have a greater familiarity with local langua-
ges and mores. Still, the implicit correlation
betweenproposedreligious reforms andso-
cial integration is tendentious: the real con-
test lies elsewhere, inschools andonthe job
market.
Opponents to mainstreamIslamic and Je-
wish practices often couch their intentions
in laudable terms, mobilizing on behalf of
free speech and women's or animal rights.
However, they undermine religious rights
guaranteed by the same constitution they
brandish. This hardens positions and politi-
cizes religious practices.
Most damaging of all, they weaken the
movement tosynthesize "ancestral" andEu-
ropeanstate traditions embodiedbythe par-
ticipants of Islam councils like the DIK.
This places religious leadershipinthe unen-
viable position between the "hammer" of
the State and the "anvil" of Community. If
current trends prevent them from delive-
ringbasic religious freedoms totheir consti-
tuents, what's to keep European Muslims
fromsearchingelsewherefor a more aggres-
sive brand of advocacy?
"
Jonathan Laurence is Associate Professor
of Political Science, Boston College; Nonresi-
dent Senior Fellow, Center on the US and Eu-
rope, Brookings Institution; and a Daimler
Fellow. He is the author of The Emancipa-
tion of European Muslims (Princeton 2012)
American Academy 2012_Der Tagesspiegel_September_14_2012_12
By Jonathan Laurence
Breaking fast after
Ramadan. Muslims
in Europe adjust
their rituals. Ins-
tead of slaughte-
ring animals, mo-
ney is now donated
to good causes.
Even Christians are
invited to the end
of Ramadan.
Photo: dapd
Wrong
Signals
Europe must strike a balance between respecting
the religion of Muslims and Jews and expecting these groups
to blend into the social fabric of societies in Europe.
If this fails, the threat of radicalization looms
German authorities
have assumed ownership of
state-mosque relations
Whats to keep European
Muslims from searching for
an aggressive advocacy?
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Fifteenyears agotheideaof Armenianand
Turkishhistorianssittingdowntogetherto
discussthetraumaticlast yearsof theOtto-
man Empire would have been almost unt-
hinkable. But with the emergence of a vi-
brant civil societyinTurkey, andthecoura-
geous forays by individual Turkish scho-
lars to investigate the fate of the Armeni-
ans, a fragile but sustained dialogue has
emerged that moved beyond accusation
and denial. Beginning in 2000, a group of
scholars in America and Europe gathered
in a series of workshops to talk about the
reignof theYoungTurks (1908-1918) and
the massacres and deportations of the em-
pire's Armenian and Assyrian subjects.
Eventually the example of the Workshop
on Armenian-Turkish Scholarship
(WATS) encouraged Turkish scholars to
undertake their own serious intervention
intothese difficult anddeliberatelyobscu-
red questions, and in 2005they organized
aconferenceat Bilgi UniversityinIstanbul
that cameunderattackfromright-wingna-
tionalists and members of the govern-
ment. The papers from that conference
have been published in Turkey, and the
WATS group produced its own collection
entitled AQuestion of Genocide: Armeni-
ans and Turks at the End of the Ottoman
Empire, which appeared earlier this year.
This shifting group of Armenian, Tur-
kish, Kurdish, and other scholars, diverse
in their backgrounds and historical trai-
ning, over time developed a rough consen-
sus about the causes and effects of the
Young Turk policies in 1915. The evi-
dence derived fromoriginal archival sour-
ces, letters, memoirs, and diplomatic and
missionary reports overwhelmingly poin-
ted to an effort by the Istanbul govern-
ment to rid the besieged empire of a per-
ceived threat to its existence by rendering
the Armenians in particular, but also to
some degree Assyrians, Greeks, and ot-
her Christian populations, politically and
culturally impotent. The scholars in
WATS agreed that deportations and mass
killings had occurred; that they had been
ordered, organized, and carried out by
the Young Turks and their agents; and
that the target of these brutal policies had
been defined ethnoreligious groups.
Whether one is willing to call the events
of 1915 a genocide or not often depends
more on politics and ethnic affiliation
than on examination of the empirical evi-
dence. But if one reads what scholars
have found, if one accepts that all this hap-
pened, what other word than genocide
would be appropriate?
The author is Charles Tilly Collegiate
Professor of Social and Political History
at the University of Michigan, and a Ger-
man Transatlantic Program Fellow
By Ronald Grigor Suny
A Question of Genocide
International scholars
point the way forward
for finding a language in
Turkeys public sphere
to finally discuss the
Armenian genocide
Protests. Armenians
in New York remem-
ber the genocide.
Since 2005, Turkish,
Armenians, and ot-
her international scho-
lars have been re-
searching this deli-
cate topic.
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tion, Roe Jasen, Isabel & Peter von
Jena, KfW Bankengruppe, Jan Tibor
Lelley, Ellen Levy & Gregg Horowitz,
Michael Libal, Nina & Daniel Libe-
skind, John Lipsky, Quincy Liu,
Macy's, Charles Maier, Rona & Harvey
Malofsky, Beate & Wolfgang Mayrhu-
ber, Stephanie Moeller, Jan-Daniel
Neumann, Kathryn & Peter Nixdorff,
Wolfram Nolte, Albert J. Rdler, Susan
Rambow, Christa Freifrau & Hermann
Freiherr von Richthofen, Alison & Jef-
frey A. Rosenberg, Irene J. & Frank E.
Salerno, Henry Sapparth, Volker
Schlndorff, Harald Schmid, Bjrn
Schmidt, Peter Schwicht, Kenneth
Scott, Michael Sovern, Manfred von
Sperber, Wiete & Hans-Jrgen Spiller,
Victor Stimming, Christian Tomuschat,
Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V.,
Lutz Weisser, Linda and Tod White
Charitable Fund, Margaret & Hayden
White, Sabine & Edwin Wiley, Jill J. &
Roger M. Witten, Pauline Yu
Corporations and
Corporate Foundations
President's Circle: $25,000 and
above
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BASF SE;
Bertelsmann AG; Robert Bosch GmbH;
Robert Bosch Stiftung; Daimler AG;
Daimler-Fonds im Stifterverband fr die
Deutsche Wissenschaft; Deutsche Luft-
hansa AG; Deutsche Telekom AG;
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; LLP;
GE; GIESEN HEIDBRINKPartnerschaft
von Rechtsanwlten; GRGPartner-
schaft von Rechtsanwlten; Fritz Henkel
Stiftung; Hewlett-Packard GmbH; JPMor-
gan Chase Bank, N.A.; KPMGAGWirt-
schaftsprfungsgesellschaft; Liberty
Global B.V.; Marsh GmbH;
MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH; Pfizer
Pharma GmbH; Porsche AG;
Susanna Dulkinys and Erik Spieker-
mann, Edenspiekermann; Telefnica
Germany GmbH&Co. OHG; Villa Grise-
bach Auktionen GmbH, Berlin; Weil, Gots-
hal &Manges LLP; White &Case LLP
Benefactors: Up to $25,000
Audi AG, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuti-
cals, Cerberus Deutschland GmbH,
Deutsche Bundesbank, Drr AG, Duss-
mann Stiftung & Co. KGaA,
Fleishman-Hillard Germany / Public Af-
fairs & Gov. Relations, Galerie Thadda-
eus Ropac GmbH, Google Germany
GmbH, Investitionsbank Berlin, Bert-
hold Leibinger Stiftung, Stiftung Erinne-
rung, Verantwortung und Zukunft
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is funded almost entirely by private
donations from individuals, founda-
tions, and corporations.
We depend on the generosity
of a widening circle of friends
on both sides of the Atlantic and
wish to extend our heartfelt thanks
to those who support us.
This list documents the contributi-
ons made to the American Aca-
demy from August 2011 to Sep-
tember 2012.
Friends, Foundations,
and Corporations
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From the start, the Academys founders
envisioned a vigorous guest speaker pro-
gram bringing leading Americans for
shorter visits to Berlin. September has al-
ready witnessed a number of outstan-
ding appearances, beginning with the
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John
Adams in discussion with the Academy's
Dean of Fellows and Programs, Pamela
Rosenberg; Frank Stella, one of the last
living heroes of American painting on,
the occasion of the exhibition Frank
Stella - The Retrospective. Works 1958 -
2012 at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg;
and writer and Academy alumnus Na-
than Englander presenting the German
release of What We Talk About When
We Talk About Anne Frank, published
by Luchterhand Literaturverlag.
Coming up are visits by the Richard
von Weizscker Distinguished Visitor
Avishai Margalit, an innovative thinker
and moral philosopher who will shed
light upon the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict and the Arab Spring on September
24, and by the renown photographer Do-
minique Nabokov, who will spend a num-
ber of weeks working on a new project
at the Academy as the Marina Kellen
French Distinguished Visitor for Per-
sons with Outstanding Accomplishment
in the Cultural World.
On October 1, Vartan Gregorian, an
Academy trustee and president of the
Carnegie Corporation of NewYork, will
deliver the Stephen M. Kellen lecture on
the history of the Carnegie Corporation
andreflect on the foundations and conti-
nuing significance of American philan-
thropy. On October 11, Richard Sie-
burth, Professor of French and Compara-
tive Literature at New York University,
talks about Baudelaire's late style. On
October 24, Ahmed Rashid, one of the
most prominent journalists reporting on
Afghanistan, Pakistan, andIslamic extre-
mism, presents his new book On the
Brink: Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the
West An Update, published by Welt-
kiosk. And from October 26 to October
28 the Academy will co-host a sympo-
sium in honor of Academy alumnus and
professor emeritus of law at the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame Donald Kommers
with "Recht im Kontext" at the Wissen-
schaftskolleg zu Berlin.
In November, one of the worlds lea-
ding economic thinkers, Robert J. Shiller
of Yale University, will return to the Aca-
demy as the Allianz Distinguished Visi-
tor to present his most recent book, Fi-
nance and the Good Society, published in
German by Campus Verlag.
Looking ahead to spring 2013, a num-
ber of distinguished guests have been li-
ned up: the Washington Post journalist
David Ignatius; former Canadian politi-
cian and foreign policy expert Michael
Ignatieff (Richard C. Holbrooke Distin-
guished Visitor); the director of the Pe-
derson Institute for International Econo-
mics, Fred Bergsten (Kurt Viermetz Dis-
tinguished Visitor); and Academy alum-
nus Adam Posen (Kurt Viermetz Distin-
guished Visitor), who will become Presi-
dent of the Peterson Institute for Interna-
tional Economics on January 1, 2013.
As with all programs at the American
Academy, guest lectures at the Hans Arn-
holdCenter are generally open to the pu-
blic and available as livestreams. To re-
gister with us, please visit our website,
www.americanacademy.de, or call +49
30 80483 0.
Distinguished Guests. Jean-Claude Trichet and Richard von Weizscker Distinguished
Visitor Paul Volcker at Schloss Bellevue in 2010. Photo: Hans Glave
Academy Guests
Each semester, leading Americans from the worlds
of foreign policy, culture, and economics visit the
Academy. Herewith, the 2012 2013 invitees.
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Thomas Demand's "Presidency VI"
(2008) features an eerily empty, blithely
elegant Oval Office, the door alluringly
ajar, tempting us to trespass. In "Five Se-
ries of Repetitions," (1986) Xu Bing's
woodblock prints present a lush rice
field that succumbs to blank space in
subsequent prints, a quiet ode to era-
sure, both artistic and seasonal. These
are just two of the artworks on offer at
an upcoming auction on November 29,
2012, to be held pro bono by Villa Grise-
bach Auktionen GmbH as part of their
international fall contemporary auction,
in order to raise support for the Aca-
demy's Max Beckmann Distinguished
Visitorship. In addition to the two pie-
ces mentioned above, artworks fromthe
following artists have been generously
pledged: Richard Artschwager, Georg
Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Andr Butzer,
Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Aa-
ron Curry, Tacita Dean, Jenny Holzer,
Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kru-
ger, Louise Lawler, Barry Le Va, Julie
Mehretu, Matt Mullican, Alice Neel,
Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, An-
selm Reyle, James Rosenquist, Ed Ru-
scha, Gnther Uecker, and Micha Ull-
man.
"What I want toshowinmyworkis the
idea which hides itself behind so-called
reality," Max Beckmann once said of his
own artistic process. "I am seeking the
bridgethatleansfromthevisibletothein-
visiblethroughreality. It maysoundpara-
doxical, but it is in fact reality which
forms the mysteryof our existence." The
Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitor-
ship aims to encourage this exploration
incontemporaryartists byreflectingtwo
important commitments in Beckmann's
late career: his admiration for the United
States and his deep enjoyment of tea-
ching. Through the Max Beckmann Dis-
tinguished Visitorship, outstanding
US-based artists will be sponsored to
come toBerlinto dothe same.
Recipients of the award will work
with a group of German students of fine
arts, philosophy, and the humanities, in
the formof a master class, which will in-
clude studio visits, professional criti-
ques, and informal meetings. The stu-
dents will have an immediate, first-hand
understanding of the artist's particular
way of seeing and thinking, while the ar-
tist will get a unique chance to interact
with a select group of emerging German
arts stakeholders and to reflect upon
their perceptions. A second goal, inspi-
red by the longstanding "Artist's
Choice" series, will have the artist cu-
rate a cabinet exhibition in two rooms
drawn from, and in dialogue with, the
collections of the Stiftung Preussischer
Kulturbesitz, including the Bode Mu-
seum, Pergamon Museum, and Geml-
degalerie, as well as the Hamburger
Bahnhof and Neue Nationalgalerie. By
selecting, juxtaposing, and commenting
on objects from the museum's archives,
the artist not only creates a personal art
historical narrative, but also challenges
the way these objects are traditionally
viewed and categorized.
Brittani Sonnenberg
Late Work. Max Beckmann painted The Argonauts in 1949-1950
while in exile in the United States of America, a nation that filled him
with admiration. He died there on December 27, 1950.
Photo: bpk / Hermann Buresch, (c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012
Seeking a Bridge
An auction featuring celebrated artists
will help fund the Academys Max Beckmann
Distinguished Visitorship this November
Recipients will work closely
with students and museums
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