In Heimat Is a Space in Time (Germany, 2019), German filmmaker Thomas Heise shares the stories of three generations of his family, in their own words. Heise sets the tone early, reading an anti-war essay written in 1912 by his grandfather Wilhelm, when he was a schoolboy. The director uses the same matter-of-fact, uninflected tone throughout the...
In December 2020, at the end of her tenure as German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed through the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) - which had been negotiated in 35 meetings over a seven year period and was intended to replace individual bilateral treaties between EU member states and China. This move caused some consternation...
he ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, April 3, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Journalist Miriam Hollstein, Chief Reporter for T-Online in Berlin and 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow.Miriam Hollstein serves as the Chief Reporter for T-Online...
In recent years, there have been numerous waves of protests in Iran against the country’s corrupt theocracy. The death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, while in police custody for wearing an “improper” hijab, has triggered what has become the most severe and sustained political upheaval ever faced by the Islamist regime in Tehran. Waves of...
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. Ambassador Christoph Heusgen (ACG Board member) has been the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022. Before taking on that role, Ambassador Heusgen was the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations from 2017 to...