2016 THE BERLIN JOURNAL ALL f A Magazine from the American Academy in Berlin Number Thirty Fall 2016 NUMBER 30 THE BERLIN JOURNAL THE BERLIN KREUzBERg 10963 by Esra Akcan Culture ANd REvolution West German underground publishing, circa 1968 ArtisT PortfOLIOs Trenton Doyle Hancock Daniel Joseph Martinez IRREdENTIsT CHIC Marketing post-socialist Hungary Fiction by Tom Franklin, Hari Kunzru, and Han Ong THE global REfUgEE CRIsIs Proposals for action We are deeply grateful to TELEFÓNICA DEUTSCHLAND HOLDING AG and STEFAN VON HOLTZBRINCK for their generous support of this issue of the Berlin Journal. CONTENTS focus features notebook 4 38 76 6 KREUzBERg 10963 40 Where Fruit Flies Fear to TREAd 78 THE 2016 HENRy A. KIssINgER PRIzE by Esra Akcan by Kate Brown Honoring Samantha Power 12 THE TURKs 44 LIfE wITHOUT AUTHORITy 82 A NEw PREsIdENT by Han Ong by Michael J. Watts Welcoming Michael P. Steinberg 16 BERLIN fOR JEws 48 IRREdENTIsT CHIC 83 TwO NEw Directors by Leonard Barkan by Virág Molnár Thomas Rommel, Jan Techau 20 ArtisT PortfOLIO 52 Capitularies 84 A $10 MILLION Family gIfT Trenton Doyle Hancock by Jennifer R. Davis 84 Welcoming our NEw TRUsTEEs 26 Culture ANd REvolution 56 dELIvERINg Leon Botstein, Martin Brand, by Timothy Brown by Tom Franklin Anthony Grafton, Ulrich Wilhelm 30 Ruination ANd Reconstruction 58 ArtisT PortfOLIO 85 MUsIC wITH fRIENds by Christina Schwenkel Daniel Joseph Martinez; Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, and text by Juli Carson members of the Syrian 34 THE Deuter INsTITUTE Expat Philharmonic Orchestra by Hari Kunzru 64 LEMONAdE by Ioana Uricaru 86 THE Hutto Project by Kate Eberstadt 66 TO Stop THE War Mary Ellen Carroll interviews Syrian 87 REMEMBERINg Fritz Stern playwright Mohammad Al Attar 88 RüCKBLENdE 2015–16 69 StrategIC HAPLEssNEss A year of events in photos by Jan Techau 90 ProfILEs in ScholarsHIP 71 THE Global REfUgEE CRIsIs: Introducing the 2016–17 fellows Practical Solutions 92 BOOK REvIEws Elisabeth Ferris and by Jeremy King Tamara Cofman Wittes and David Lazar at the Brookings Institution 94 Alumni BOOKs 73 THE REfUgEE ANd MIgration CRIsIs: ProposALs fOR Action 96 Supporters ANd dONORs by Michael Ignatieff, Juliette Keeley, Keith McCammon, and Betsy Ribble CONTRIBUTORS Esra Akcan is Associate Professor Pro fessor of Art at the University University, in Budapest. Jeremy of Anthropology and Southeast of Architecture at Cornell Univer- of California at Irvine. Jennifer R. King is Professor of History of Asian Studies at the University of sity and the fall 2016 Ellen Maria Davis is Assistant Professor of Central and Eastern Europe at California, Riverside, and Academy Gorrissen Fellow. Mohammad Al History at the Catholic University Mount Holyoke College and a fall alumna of fall 2015. Jan Techau Attar is a writer and playwright of America and the fall 2016 John P. 1999 Academy alumnus. Writer is the director of the Richard C. from Damascus, currently living in Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities. Hari Kunzru spent the spring of Holbrooke Forum at the American exile in Berlin. Leonard Barkan is Kate Eberstadt is a multidisci- 2016 in residence as the Mary Ellen Academy in Berlin. Ioana Uricaru is Class of 1943 University Professor plinary artist who was a visiting van der Heyden Fellow in Fic- Barksdale Jr. Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of artist at the Academy in spring tion. David Lazar is Professor of of Film and Media Culture at Comparative Literature at Prince- 2016. Elizabeth Ferris is a nonresi- Creative Writing at Columbia Middle bury College and the fall ton University, and a fall 2009/ dent senior fellow in the Foreign College Chicago. Artist Daniel 2016 Dirk Ippen Fellow. Michael spring 2010 Academy alumnus. Policy program at the Brookings Joseph Martinez is the Donald Watts is Class of 1963 Professor Kate Brown is Professor of History Institution. Writer Tom Franklin Bren Professor of Art at the Clair of Geo graphy and Development at the University of Maryland, is Associate Professor of English Trevor School of the Arts, Univer- Studies at the University of Cali- Baltimore County, and the spring at the University of Mississippi sity of California at Irvine. He is the fornia at Berkeley and the fall 2016 2017 Bosch Fellow in Public Policy. and the Mary Ellen von der Hey- fall 2016 Guna S. Mundheim Fellow Siemens Fellow. Tamara Cofman Timothy Brown is Professor of den Fellow in Fiction in fall 2016. in the Visual Arts. Virág Molnár, Wittes is a senior fellow and the History at Northeastern University Hous ton- based visual artist Associate Professor of Sociology director of the Center for Middle and the fall 2016 Bosch Fellow in Trenton Doyle Hancock is the Guna at the New School for Social East Policy at the Brookings Insti- Public Policy. Conceptual artist S. Mundheim Fellow in spring 2017. Research, is a spring 2017 Axel tution. Mary Ellen Carroll was the Guna Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian Springer Fellow. Novelist and S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual author, academic, and former playwright Han Ong is a fall 2010 Arts in spring 2016. Art historian, politician, and the president and Academy alumnus. Christina critic, and curator Juli Carson is rector of the Central European Schwenkel is Associate Professor THE BERLIN JOURNAL THE american acadEMy Döpfner, Marina Kellen French, Support IN BERLIN Hans-Michael Giesen, Anthony Number Thirty, Fall 2016 T. Grafton, C. Boyden Gray, Vartan The Academy is entirely funded by PREsIdENT Gregorian, Andrew S. Gundlach, private, tax-deductible donations. PUBLIsHER Michael P. Steinberg Michael P. Steinberg Florian Henckel von Donners marck, Contributions may be made: Editor R. Jay Magill, Jr. CHIEf operating OffICER Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Stefan von MANAgINg Editor Johana Gallup Christian U. 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Norman Pearlstine Account: 967 33 12 77 Burbank, Gahl Hodges Burt, ABA: 021 00 00 21 Caroline Walker Bynum, Gerhard ExecutivE director EMERITUs SWIFT CODE: CHASUS 33 Casper, Roger Cohen, Mathias Gary Smith PRESIDENT’S NOTE Intellectual Alchemy I HAvE OfTEN thought of my own joyous fellowship semester modern destruction and renewal; they speak individually at the American Academy (fall 2003) as “the year of Hegel and and also seem to speak to each other, as if a conversation Hagel.” One of the fellows’ projects focused on the canonic were taking place somewhere in the Hans Arnhold Villa. philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, while one of our Distinguished The opening pages of Leonard Barkan’s new book,Berlin Visitors was Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, later US Sec­ for Jews, may amount to the most joyous autobiographical retary of Defense. It was during Senator Hagel’s visit that I take­off I have ever read; the book itself will continue with met Richard Holbrooke, who bounded out of a press confer­ a kind of archaeology of Berlin’s Jewish past via a reading ence in the library of the Hans Arnhold Center to seize a bit of the graves of the cemetery at the Schönhauser Allee. of time with the fellows. Esra Akcan’s account of urban and social stress inside the In recent months, I have been learning more about Turkish Kreuzberg of the 1980s looks back implicitly to the some of the initial conversations among the founders of the city’s Jewish past and explicitly forward to the question of American Academy, to whom we owe not only its clarion refugee integration today. Her plea for an analytical focus identity and quality, but also its unique capacity to highlight on the category and experience of the non­citizen is funda­ and to integrate the practices and goals—theoretical and mental and timely, resonating as well with the review of the practical, scholarly and worldly—of the arts, humanities, joint meeting of the Holbrooke Forum and the Brookings and public policy. Richard Holbrooke’s will to knowledge, Institution on the “Global Refugee Crisis,” as well as with John Kornblum told me, was voracious and uniquely eclec­ Mary Ellen Carroll’s interview with Syrian playwright tic; he wanted to learn about everything from everyone and Mohammad Al Attar. The focus on Berlin at the crossroads everywhere. Stephen Kellen championed the centrality of of destruction and renewal alters its angle of approach only the arts and humanities.