Personal Dialogue

Weekly "Jour fixe" meetings offer fellows an exceptional opportunity to participate in personal conversation with prominent representatives from science, media, business, politics, society, and culture. These meetings offer fellows a perspective transcending the boundaries of their individual research projects.

Past years numerous outstanding personalities have been welcomed as guests, among them former German Presidents Richard von Weizsäcker and Roman Herzog; Antje Vollmer, Vice President of the German Bundestag; Klaus Kinkel, former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Jens Reich, civil rights activist and scholar; Jan Philipp Reemtsma, head of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; Edzard Reuter, former chairman of the advisory board of Daimler-Benz-AG; literary critic Sigrid Löffler; Giovanni di Lorenzo, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tagesspiegel and TV presenter; journalist and reporter Henryk M. Broder; Lothar de Maizière, first and last prime minister of the German Democratic Republic; Gregor Gysi, former head of the German PDS party; Marianne Birthler, head of the Federal Authority for Documents of the State Security Service of the Former GDR; Gesine Schwan, President of European University Viadrina; and Barbara John, former officer for immigration affairs in Berlin.

Interested? Let´s have a look at our current programme!