The Cultural Hideaway

1998 - 100 Jahre Zionismus – 50 Jahre Israel

1998 - Der Leviathan – die Jüdische Moderne als Politische Theologie 

1998 - Globalisierung ohne Migration?

1999 - Ethik der Erinnerung? 

1999 - Die Haltung des deutschen Widerstands zur Judenverfolgung 

1999 - Wagner im Dritten Reich 

1999 - Jenseits des Seins? Emanuel Levinas vs. Martin Heidegger 

1999 - Ethische Grenzen der Anthropotechniken?

2000 - Erbschaft der Aufklärung – die geistigen Grundlagen der Berliner Republik? 

2000 - Idealisierung des 20. Juli?

2000 - Humanismus nach Nietzsche? 

2000 – Political Theology of Love– Negative Theology vs Catholic Philosophy

2000 - The Lesser Evil? Comparing Genocide practices in Nazism & Communism 

2000 - Global America? Die kulturellen Auswirkungen der Globalisierung 

2000 - Die Westdeutschen Historiker und der Holocaust

2001 - The End of Globalisation?

2001 - Europas Grenzen und die Orientalische Frage?

2001 - Jews as Cosmopolitans?

2001 - Antiamerikanismus im Westen? 

2002 - Die Islamische Moderne als Politische Theologie? 

2002 - The Ethics of Memory

2002 - Saudi Arabia the Problem – Iraq the Solution?
Civilizational Imperialism - Europe vs the US in a new World Order? 

2002 - Die Politische Relevanz Protestantischer Religionskultur?

2003 - Die Protestantisierung des Islam?

2003 - Die Globalisierung der Erinnerung des Holocaust?

2003 - Comparing Immigration Regimes and Multiculturalism in Germany and Israel

2003 - Diaspora in Antiquity? Diaspora Today?

2003 - Transatlantic Forum of the German Marshal Fund

2003 - Rebuilding the West in the Greater Middle East?

2004 - Europe beyond East and West?

2004 - 2007 Transatlantic Forums of the German Marshal Fund

2004 - Rethinking German­Jewish Cultural History

2005 - Transatlantic Forum of the German Marshal Fund

2005 - Amerika, du hast es besser?

2007 - Islam in Jewish Eyes- Judaism in Moslem Eyes

2008 - Jews and Muslims in Christian Europe

2009 - For God’s Sake. Religion and Politics in America and Europe

2011 - Antisemitismus im Diskurs der 68er?

2012 - Geopolitical Challenges for the Transatlantic Alliance

2012 - Die Ökonomie von Gut und Böse

2013 - Horizons of Secularism at the dawn of the 21st Century

2014 - Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West

2015 - G7 Summit, 2015

2015 - 2025 Munich Security Conference Strategy Forums

2022 - G7 Summit, 2022

2024 - Democracy in Times of Crisis - Ein handlungsunfähiges Deutschland in einem handlungsunfähigen Europa?

Participants included:

Steven Aschheim (Jerusalem), Ron D. Asmus (†) David Bankier (Yad Vashem), Yehuda Bauer (Yad Vashem), Ulrich Beck (München), Nicolaus Berg (Leipzig), Udo Bermbach (Hamburg), Dieter Borchmeyer (München), Remy Brague (Paris), Michael Brenner (München), Ian Burma (New York), Gerard Delanty (London), Dan Diner (Jerusalem), Helmut Dubiel (New York), Roland Eckart (Tübingen), John Efron (Berkeley), Rachel Elior (Jerusalem), Joachim Fest (†), Jens Malte Fischer (München), Norbert Frei (Jena), Saul Friedländer (Los Angeles), Bronislaw Geremek (†),Volker Gerhardt (Berlin), Sander Gilman (Chicago), Friedrich­Wilhelm Graf (München), Erich Gruen (Berkeley), Jürgen Habermas (Starnberg), Harald Haury (München), Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth), Moshe Idel (Jerusalem), Harold James (Princeton), Georg Kamphausen (Bayreuth), Gilles Keppel (Paris), David Clay Large (Berkeley), Walter Laqueur (Washington), Martin Malia (Berkeley), Avishai Margalit (Jerusalem), JeanLuc Marion (Paris), Paul Mendes­Flohr (Jerusalem), Hassan Mneimneh (GMF). Jerzy Müller (Washington), Jürgen Moltmann (Tübingen), Hans Mommsen, Kogila Moodley (Vancouver), Gabriel Motzkin (Van Leer Jerusalem Institut), Herfried Münkler (Berlin), David Meyers (Los Angeles), Martha Nussbaum (Chicago), Christian Nottmeier, Anson Rabinbach (Princeton), Tariq Ramadan (Oxford), Amoz Raz­Krakotzkin (Beer Sheva), Rüdiger Safranski, Rachel Salamander (Literaturhandlung), Christoph Schmidt (Jerusalem), Tomáš Sedláček (Prag), Reinhard Schulze (Bern), Dietrich Schwanitz ((†) (Hamburg), Richard Sennet (Chicago), Emanuel Sivan (Jerusalem), Anne­Marie Slaughter (Princeton), Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe), Natan Sznaider (Tel Aviv), Charles Taylor (Toronto), Gianni Vattimo (Turin), Yfaat Weiss (Jerusalem), Christian Wiese (Frankfurt), Yirmiyahu Yovel (Jerusalem), Shimson Zelniker (Van Leer Jerusalem Institut), Hartmut Zelinsky (München)

Democracy in times of Crisi, 2025

Stephan Harbarth (Präsident des Deutschen Verfassungsgerichts)
Andreas Vosskuhle (ehemaliger Präsident des Deutschen Verfassungsgerichts)
Wolfgang Schmidt (ehemaliger Chef des Bundeskanzleramts)
Herfried Münkler (HU Berlin) 
Jörn Leonhard (Freiburg)
Andreas Rödder (Frankfurt)
Christoph Möllers (HU Berlin)
Peter Michael Huber (LMU München)
Nathaniel Liminski (Chef der Staatskanzlei NRW)
René Pfister (Der Spiegel)
Christoph Marschies (Präsident der Berlin-Brandenburguschen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Philippa Sigl-Glöckner (Derzernat Zukunft)
Monika Schnitzer (LMU München)
Michael Fuest (Ifo Institut)
Samuel Issacharoff (NYU)
 

World in Pieces, 2026

Alexander Soros, Chair of the Board of Directors, Open Society Foundations.
Avril Haines, Former Director of National Intelligence USA, Former Deputy Director of the CIA.
Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge; author of Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (2022).
Curtis Yarvin, political blogger and software developer; founder of Tlon—the company behind Urbit; author of Gray Mirror: Fascicle I: Disturbance (2025).
Dan Diner, Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author of The Other War (2024; originally in German, 2021).
David Runciman, Honorary Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge; author of The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution (2024).
Eva Illouz, Professor of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and EHESS (Paris); author of Explosive Modernity (2025).
Giuliano da Empoli, political essayist and novelist, professor at Sciences Po Paris and founding chairman of Volta; author of The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World (2025).
Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies – Sofia and Albert Hirschman permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna; author of After Europe (2017) and co-author with Stephen Holmes of The Light that Failed (2019).
Jonathan White, Professor of Politics, London School of Economics; author of In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea (2024).
Lea Ypi, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics; author of Indignity: A Life Reimagined (2025).
Leonard Benardo, Senior Vice President, Open Society Foundations; Director, The Ideas Workshop; Publisher, The Ideas Letter (TheIdeasLetter.org).
Mark Leonard, Co-founder and Director, European Council on Foreign Relations; author of The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict (2021).
Milla Mineva, Lecturer in Sociology, Sofia University; Program Director, Centre for Liberal Strategies.
Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Hebrew University; Gruss Professor of Law, NYU Law; author of The Birth of Doubt: Confronting Uncertainty in Early Rabbinic Literature (2020).
Nathalie Tocci, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali; author of La grande incertezza: Navigare le contraddizioni del disordine globale (2024).
Peter Sloterdijk, Philosopher and cultural theorist; Professor Emeritus, University of Art and Design Karlsruhe; author of The Terrible Children of Modernity: An Antigenealogical Experiment (2025).
Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University; author of Hayek's Bastards: (2025).
Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, NYU; Faculty Director, Reiss Center on Law & Security; co-author of The Light That Failed (2019).
Thomas Bagger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Italy; State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office (2023–25); former Foreign Policy Advisor to President Steinmeier.
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford; author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (2023).
Walter Russell Mead, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute; Wall Street Journal columnist; author of The Arc of a Covenant (2023).
Wolfgang Schmidt, former German Federal Minister and Head of the Federal Chancellery under Chancellor Olaf Scholz (2021–2025).
Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History, UC Berkeley; Senior Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford; author of The House of Government (2017).
 

Publications 

Richard Wagner im Dritten Reich. 
Ein Schloss Elmau Symposion, Hrsg. Saul Friedländer, Jörn Rüsen, München 1999 

Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute. Themen, Positionen, Kontroversen. 
Ein Schloss Elmau Symposion, Hrsg. Michael Brenner, David Meyers, München 2002 

Globales Amerika? 
Die kulturellen Folgen der Globalisierung
Hrsg. Ulrich Beck, Natan Sznaider, Rainer Winter, Bielefeld 2003 

The Lesser Evil?
Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices,
Hrsg. Gabriel Motzkin, Helmut Dubiel, London / New York 2004 

Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity
Hrsg. Erich S. Gruen, Stuttgart 2005 

Europe and Asia Beyond East and West
Hrsg. Gerard Delanty, London 2006

Schloss Elmau- A German History, 2021