A Magazine from the American Academy in Berlin | Number Eight | Spring 2004 The Berlin Journal Stephen Max Kellen Berlin 1914 – New York 2004 Thank you. Coca-Cola bedankt sich bei seinen Partnern und Mitarbeitern für 75 erfrischende und erfolgreiche Jahre in Deutschland. koffeinhaltig; Coca-Cola und die Konturflasche sind eingetragene Schutzmarken der The Coca-Cola Company Company Coca-Cola The der Schutzmarken eingetragene sind Konturflasche die und Coca-Cola koffeinhaltig; ARD_Fernbedienung_246x328 07.04.2004 18:08 Uhr Seite 1 NIASWETZEL.DE XY Das Erste unter Vielen. 82283_E4002_Tiger_water246x328 15.04.2004 16:42 Uhr Seite 1 82283_E4002_Tiger_water246x328 WUNDERMAN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Jobnummer 2AN20-E4023 Anlageformat 100% Umfang 1 Seite Endformat 246x328 mm Anschnitt 2004 Accenture. All rights reserved. 3mm © Farben 4c DTP merz Ausdruck 100% Version 1 Medium AZ Tiger in Water Berlin Journal Logo: 28% Headline: 28pt Copy: 15pt Strat.Line: 140% (14pt) High Performer schaffen sich eigene Chancen. Go on. Be a Tiger. High Performance wird nicht daran gemessen, wie gut Sie die nahe liegenden Schritte meistern, sondern daran, wie innovativ Sie die schwierigen bewältigen. Accenture hilft Ihrem Unternehmen, ein High Performance Business zu werden. Wie, erfahren Sie auf accenture.de Number Eight | Spring 2004 The Berlin Journal Were He Still Here If only Stephen Kellen could have experienced another semester at the Hans Arnhold Center. He would have been as engrossed as he had been during his last visit in May 2002, when he sat rapt in the first row listening to Walter Laqueur lecture on terrorism. The breadth of his curiosity was remarkable. He relished regular contact with his vast collection of Berlin friends and followed the Academy’s program closely from a distance. This spring he would have wanted to hear every detail of the visits of three veter- an Middle East experts. I can imagine the pleasure he would have taken in hearing the Scharoun Ensemble play compositions by Lukas Foss, how he would have conversed with Michael Geyer about nationalism, and how he would have listened attentively to Tom Geoghegan’s social prognoses. We were blessed to have him as long as we did, but we wish he were still here to cheer us on. –Gary Smith A Magazine from the Hans Arnhold Center Trustees of the American Academy 04 Remembering Stephen Kellen The Academy commemorates the life Published twice a year by the American Academy in Berlin Honorary Chairmen Number Eight – Spring 2004 of its great benefactor, friend, and mentor, Stephen Max Kellen. Our Thomas L. Farmer Henry A. Kissinger issue begins with a bouquet of memoirs by Robert Mundheim, Richard Richard von Weizsäcker Editor Gary Smith Holbrooke, Anabelle Garrett, Gary Smith, Henry Arnhold, Leslie Gelb, Co- Editor Miranda Robbins Chairman Richard C. Holbrooke Andrew Gundlach, Nina von Maltzahn, and Marina Kellen French. Design Susanna Dulkinys and United Designers Network Editorial Intern William Kee Vice Chairman 13 W. S. DiPiero “A Cold June” Gahl Hodges Burt Original Drawings Ben Katchor 14 The Prospects of Partnership: Developing Strategies for the Middle East President Advertising Renate Pöppel Robert H. Mundheim Three seasoned diplomats present their views. Printing Ruksaldruck GmbH, Berlin 16 Dennis Ross, Clinton’s chief negotiator at Camp David in 2000, applies the Treasurer lessons of Iraq to Israel’s announced withdrawal from Gaza. If you wait until Karl M. von der Heyden The American Academy in Berlin the “day after” to plan a transition of power, you have waited too long. Am Sandwerder 17–19 | 14109 Berlin 20 Edward Djerejian Tel. (+ 49 30) 80 48 3-0 | Fax (+ 49 30) 80 48 3-111 Trustees , after four decades in the diplomatic corps, is struck by [email protected] Gahl Hodges Burt the carpet of satellite dishes stretching from the Marrakesh medina to Kabul Diethart Breipohl and Karachi. Throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds, America’s intentions Executive Director Gerhard Casper Gary Smith are being hotly debated on television, radio, and satellite. How can the US join Lloyd N. Cutler Deputy Director the discussion? Thomas L. Farmer Paul Stoop Julie Finley 23 Martin Indyk External Affairs Director understands the complex interdependencies among Middle Vartan Gregorian Renate Pöppel Eastern factors, the delicate balance between a whole and its parts. The former William A. Haseltine Finances / Accounting Jon Vanden Heuvel diplomat looks back upon the mistakes of the last two US administrations and Karl Beer Karl M. von der Heyden forward to a four-part strategy for positive transformation in the region. Fellows Services Director Richard C. Holbrooke Marie Unger Dieter von Holtzbrinck 27 Notebook of the Academy: News about our trustees, fellowships, programs, Program Coordinator Josef Joffe Ute Zimmermann and alumni Stephen M. Kellen † Press Coordinator 32 Henry A. Kissinger Life and Letters: People and projects at the Hans Arnhold Center Ingrid Müller Horst Köhler 36 Office Manager, New York On the Waterfront: What they are writing about us – including a Christmas John C. Kornblum Jennifer Montemayer present from the New York Times, a short profile of Berlin-born composer Lukas Otto Graf Lambsdorff Director of Publications Nina von Maltzahn Foss, and a column by David Warsh on fellow Academy fellow Hope Harrison. Miranda Robbins Deryck Maughan Foreign Policy Forum Coordinator 40 Michael Geyer Klaus Mangold describes the catastrophic effects of German nationalism in two Philipp Albers Erich Marx world wars. Tax-deductible contributions to the Berlin Journal Wolfgang Mayrhuber may be made by check or by bank transfer to the Robert H. Mundheim 45 Thomas Geoghegan shows the connection between the collapse of unions, American Academy in Berlin , Berliner Sparkasse Joseph Neubauer healthcare, and government regulation, and America’s litigation madness. Account no. 660 000 9908, BLZ 100 500 00 Franz Xaver Ohnesorg Robert C. Pozen 49 W. S. Di Piero All rights reserved ISSN 1610-6490 “Didn’t You Say Desire Is?” Volker Schlöndorff Fritz Stern 50 Alex Ross describes the premiere that brought toute Vienne to Graz in 1906. THE Kurt Viermetz AMERICAN Alberto W. Vilar 54 Elizabeth McCracken ACADEMY “Ode to a Fifth-Grade Teacher” IN BERLIN Richard von Weizsäcker Hans Arnhold Center Klaus Wowereit, ex officio + Work by artists Xu Bing and Reynold Reynolds Stephen Max Kellen Berlin 1914 – NewYork 2004 PhotographAnnetteHornischerby 4 Number Eight | Spring 2004 High Standards Were His Hallmark n february 11, 2004, Stephen Kellen passed My grandfather was a great collector – of ideas, art, and cherished friends. away, and the American Academy in Berlin What my family learned on his passing was that he was also an extraordinary lost its greatest friend and supporter. collector of quotations. Much to our surprise, we found them squirreled Stephen had three great loves: his wife and away everywhere; his pockets, wallet, and drawers were filled with scraps of constant companion of nearly 64 years, paper. They never left his side. Anna-Maria, the city of his birth, Berlin, andO the city he adopted, New York. As he was fond of saying, – Anabelle Garrett »I became a very good New Yorker but have always remained a good Berliner.« The American Academy embodies these three loves. The Academy’s Berlin home is the house in which Anna-Maria grew up and where she lived when Stephen courted her. The Academy was founded on the idea that it would be a living bridge between two communities about which Stephen cared deeply. It would be a bridge for people, including, importantly young people, and for ideas bringing Germany and America closer together and enriching both. Stephen gave every encouragement for the Academy to grow quickly into the role he envisioned for it. But as it grew (some- “I believe in love times even more rapidly than he expected), he admonished us – in another of his favorite phrases – »quality, not quantity« and work, and their must be our touchstone. High standards were a hallmark for linkage. I believe all of Stephen’s activities. that we are neither Although we will miss Stephen’s energy, focus, judgment and angels nor devils, continual thoughtful help, he has left us a very lively institu- but humans, with tion which bears his stamp and keeps reminding us how for- clusters of potentials tunate we are to have had him as a great friend. in both directions. – Robert Mundheim I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist but a possibilist.” – Max Lerner The Berlin Journal 5 Remembering Stephen Kellen Richard Holbrooke tephen Kellen was a great man. known to many. Allow me to recall it He would have been surprised once more. Sby this statement, because he We began with an idea: to create a per- never sought personal recognition for his manent American presence in Berlin as the achievements, and, indeed, was, by tem- storied Berlin brigade left the city it had perament and upbringing, incapable of protected throughout the cold war. Henry such thinking about himself. But, hav- Kissinger, Richard von Weizsäcker, and ing known a few people who were truly Tom Farmer joined me in announcing the great – and many who thought they were idea on September 9, 1994, the day after – I believe that Stephen fulfilled the char- the last American troops left the city. But it acteristics of greatness. While he main- was only an idea. No building. PhotographAnnetteHornischerby tained, to the very end, a lively interest No money. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen, and Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke at the second in the affairs of the world around him, We finally found a building, a large New Traditions conference in Berlin in 1998. Stephen probably saw himself primarily villa on the Wannsee – not the Villa on the as an observer of events. Wannsee, but a beautiful old building that Well, in this respect, although in few had, in its lifetime, been taken over by Stephen was not modern in any sense vision will survive, and will succeed.