DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program [SEP] inception
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (German: "Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD") is a residential program for artists of all countries and ages run by the German Academic Exchange Service (German: ‘Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst', DAAD) in Berlin. Originally initiated by the Ford Foundation in 1963, the program has been run by the DAAD – with the assistance of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Senate of Berlin – since 1965. The program annually invites around 20
were allocated to the creation of two new courses at the Free University of Berlin – one in American Studies, and another in Comparative Music Studies. 590,000 dollars were used to make it possible for ‘artists, writers, academics, scientists and composers’ to spend ‘an extended period of time living and working in Berlin.’
In 1965 the DAAD took over the running of the program, and renamed it the Artists-in-Berlin Program. It now gained additional support from the German Federal Foreign Office and the