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...
The Cleveland Warburg Chapter and the World Affairs Council of Cleveland will host a breakfast briefing with Dr. Liana Fix, Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations.Dr. Liana Fix is a Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, based in Washington, DC. Previously, she served in the International Affairs Department of the Körber Foundation...
Three years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the launch of our virtual transatlantic discussion series "Resilience and Adaptation" with 24 episodes covering a range of social, political, and economic implications, 1014 and the American Council on Germany are launching a new virtual discussion series to revisit some of the same themes and examine...
The Los Angeles Warburg Chapter will host a discussion and luncheon with Bundestag Members Isabel Cademartori, Matthias David Mieves, and Dr. Lina Seitzl.Isabel Cademartori (SPD) has served as Member of the Bundestag since 2021. She currently is a member of the Committee for Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Communities, as well as the Transportation Committee, and...
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Lieutenant General Kai Rohrschneider, Director General for Forces Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defense. Lieutenant General Kai Ronald Rohrschneider (1998 Young Leader) joined the Federal Armed Forces in 1983 as an officer candidate in the Armor Branch. He completed his basic military education in Armor...
The 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 17 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Karina Mößbauer, Chief Reporter of the Politics Department/ Parliament Office for BILDKarina Mößbauer has been the Chief Reporter for the Politics Department and Parliament Office...
In recent months there has been much discussion about post-war reconstruction in Ukraine after the conflict there comes to an end. Some politicians, analysts, and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic have called for a “Marshall Plan for Ukraine.” Following the Second World War, the Marshall Plan was an ambitious and innovative strategy to...
The 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 24 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Henrike Roßbach, Deputy Head and Correspondent for the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.Henrike Roßbach is the Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche Zeitung....
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with H.E. Boris Pistorius, German Federal Minister of Defense. This event is by invitation only. H.E. Boris Pistorius is the German Federal Minister of Defense, a position he has held since January 2023. In this capacity, he serves as the Commander in Chief of the armed...
The Philadelphia Warburg Chapter and German Society Of Pennsylvania will host a discussion with Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Founder and Director, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG) and 2022 McCloy Global Trends Fellow.Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a German–Iranian political scientist focusing on Iran, the Middle East, and the post-unipolar world order. He is a 2022...