Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel return to the Eastern Sector of #Berlin after wartime exile in 1948.

Sunflowers in full bloom today at the Balgone Estate 😍🌻

My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Das Deutsche Historische Museum rekonstruiert sechs Ausstellungen, die zwischen 1945 und 1948 die Verbrechen der Nazis sichtbar machten. Oft organisiert von Holocaust-Überlebenden. www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/das-e... Mehr Geschichte auf @tagesspiegel.de: www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...

Here it is - my book on the interpreters at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial is now out in physical form (not in open access for a year or two unfortunately) but good to hold a copy www.bloomsbury.com/uk/interpret...

If you want to find out about the first German translation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the subject of translating disability, my chapter on this has just been published in the book Narrative Universes of Disability. It includes a great image of Frankenstein's creature reading Werther.

BREAKING: The Trump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling international students. Harvard enrolls nearly 6,800 international students out of a student body of 24,596. Current international students at Harvard will need to transfer or lose their legal status. nbcnews.to/4dzg6eq

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of international students at universities across the U.S.

Looking forward to having an excuse to talk about Wedekind and Spring Awakening at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - and to seeing their productions of the play and musical soon 🎭 www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/unm... @rcsofficial.bsky.social

German does yearning so well. ’Fernweh’, ‘far-sickness’, is the longing for distant places, while ‘Sehnsucht’ is a wistful desire for something intangible. #shoutoutforgerman

Welcome to Kuba! We loved trying out your menu today at Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social 😋

Wir alle Robert, wir alle.

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

Hello! I'm late but the weather was scary...

"Liebe Fahrgäste, bitte achten Sie beim Aussteigen auch auf Ihr Gepäck! Wir sind nicht nachtragend." (deichvoigt) #BahnAnsagen

Lovely cold dry day for a long winter’s walk 😍❄️

Even though the fireworks were cancelled, David Hume still seems to have had a party-filled night

Rather pleased with this Berlin flea market find - a 1988 guide to a perestroika-themed dinner party, complete with invitations, menus & table decorations

“Light at the Wall” - Christmas 1961 at the Brandenburg Gate (Photo: Polizeihistorische Sammlung des Polizeipräsidenten in Berlin)

As a student at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Robert Louis Stevenson was arrested for taking part in a 2-day snowball riot between the university & Surgeons’ Hall… although as he was only a spectator (he claimed, successfully) he was let off with a warning 1/3 www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

Good view of the plane wing being de-iced before take-off from Berlin earlier today ❄️

Can recommend Andreas Dresen’s new film “In Liebe, Eure Hilde” - here’s the review in Der Tagesspiegel www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/andre...

Lovely to be back in the Brecht Archive last week 🎭

Sleigh ride to the Fernsehturm, anyone?

The Reclam-Heft you didn’t know you needed…

Excellent exhibition on the GDR Palast der Republik at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin - on until 16 Feb.

Theater kann ultraschnell sein: Elfriede Jelinek hat bereits ein Stück über Trumps Wahlsieg verfasst, Falk Richter hat es am Hamburger Schauspielhaus inszeniert. Das Tempo tut dem Schau- und Erkenntniswert keinen Abbruch, findet Nachtkritiker Andreas Schnell.

A University of Edinburgh campus has been named one of the most beautiful in the world at a UN-backed awards ceremony ⬇️

Black Watch, written by Gregory Burke, directed by John Tiffany, is the focus of this week’s episode of @fergusmorgan.bsky.social’s A History of Scottish Drama in Six Plays Acknowledged as a landmark theatre production of the 21st century, it toured the world from 2006 to 2013👇

Christmas market, East Berlin, 1957. © Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz

“Listen, your gnome has seven hours to live unless you wrap 25p and leave it at the car park at Safeways”. My parents remember this local news story (and I remember the old Safeways car park!). www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Another treat from Walter Presents - the ZDF mini-series ‘Berlin Wall’ streaming now on Channel 4 🍿 www.channel4.com/programmes/b...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Only the BBC does this: Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin's masterpiece, dramatised by Simon Scardifield from Michael Hofmann's landmark translation. Episode 1 - 3pm Sat 23 Nov #BBCRadio4 #BBCSounds Stars Claes Bang, Lee Ross @JasmineETHyde @LitRedCorvette #Berlin

Today’s new addition to the neighbourhood! ☃️❄️

Lovely blue sky here today in Edinburgh 😉