American Academy in Berlin to Award German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier with the 2022 Henry A. Kissinger Prize in New York City
BERLIN—November 9, 2022—The American Academy in Berlin will award the 2022 Henry A. Kissinger Prize in New York City to Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of the Federal Republic of Germany,for his extraordinary career of public service. The American Academy in Berlin—a leading institution of advanced scholarship and practice in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy— awards the Henry A. Kissinger Prize each year to a distinguished American or European who has made a lasting contribution to the transatlantic relationship. The award ceremony will take place on the evening of November 16, 2022, for the first time in New York City—the Academy’s U.S. headquarters.
One of Germany’s longest-serving and most accomplished foreign ministers, President Steinmeier is justly credited with strengthening Germany’s renown as a responsible leader of the international community and a champion of the global rules-based order. Throughout more than three decades of dedicated public life—and despite moments of genuine bilateral disagreement—he has been an unfailing champion of the U.S.-German relationship as an anchor of transatlantic peace and security. The laudation for President Steinmeier will be delivered by Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State (2005-09), with remarks delivered by former United States Secretary of State and Academy Founding Chairman Henry Kissinger.
The 2022 Henry A. Kissinger Prize is generously underwritten with lead and presenting sponsorship from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Deutsche Bank, Linde plc, and Schmidt Futures; supporting sponsorship is provided by American Express, BASF, Bayer, Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Fresenius Kabi, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Microsoft, Porsche, PwC, Robert Bosch GmbH, The Brunswick Group, and White & Case.
About the Henry A. Kissinger Prize
The Henry A. Kissinger Prize was established in 2007 to honor the Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin. Former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger’s initiatives to create and sustain a stable East-West relationship helped to lay the foundation for change in Europe, the end of the Cold War, and the reunification of Germany. Previous recipients of the Henry A. Kissinger Prize are Helmut Schmidt (2007); George H.W. Bush (2008); Richard von Weizsäcker (2009); Michael R. Bloomberg (2010); Helmut Kohl (2011); George P. Shultz (2012); Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist (2013); James A. Baker, III (2014); Giorgio Napolitano and Hans-Dietrich Genscher (2015); Samantha Power (2016); Wolfgang Schäuble (2018); John McCain (2018); Angela Merkel (2020), and James N. Mattis (2021).
About the American Academy in Berlin
The American Academy in Berlin is an institution of advanced scholarship and practice in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy. The Academy’s flagship program is its Berlin Prize Fellowship, a highly coveted residency awarded to scholars, artists, writers, and journalists from the United States. Fellows are joined each semester by a number of Distinguished Visitors and guest lecturers, all of whom participate in the Academy’s dynamic public programming and engage with their German and European counterparts. The Academy also frequently hosts symposia that convene international experts on pressing issues of the day. Conceived of by Richard C. Holbrooke when he was U.S. ambassador to Germany, from 1993 to 1994, the Academy is proud to uphold the intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Europe.
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