My Mommsen Institute shares an address with the Hans Arnholt Center of the American Academy in Berlin, where my wife and I spent four highly enjoyable months in the winter of 1999. The resemblance ends there. The Rektor, the chef, the fellows and their spouses—all fictitious, as are the other characters and episodes in The Weather in Berlin.
My deep thanks to the American Academy for its Berlin Fellowship and the staff in Wannsee for its matchless hospitality and good humor.