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Had great fun in Exeter yesterday, presenting the beginnings of my postdoc project! Thank you to Ina Linge for the invite & to all who came!

Join us on 20 November at 5pm (UK) for an online event with Dr. Paul Flaig (University of St. Andrews) to celebrate the release of his new book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed! Sign up via this form to receive the joining details shortly before the event

📢🚨 ONLY 24 HOURS TO GO BEFORE THE DEADLINE FOR THE CFP CLOSES!!

Reminder: The deadline GSSN/DAAD-sponsored conference 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' conference (University of Oxford, 17-19 June 2026) is only one week away – 31 October 2025. We would be grateful if you could share the call with any students or colleagues who may be interested!

Congratulations to our very own Paul Flaig on the publication of his book: Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed - out today with Bloomsbury, in the World Cinema series edited by Lúcia Nagib and Julian Ross www.bloomsbury.com/uk/weimar-sl...

Looking forward to presenting at the @thegsa.bsky.social conference in Arlington on Sunday!

We are pleased to announce that the fall edition of WeimarCinema.org is now live, featuring new essays and film dossiers as well as updates on recent publications and restorations. We hope you enjoy the new essays and dossiers, and find the updates and news helpful!

The German Screen Studies Network is excited to announce a CFP for the conference, "Rethinking Weimar Cinema Conference" to be held at Oxford University 17-19 June 2026, co-organised by Lawrence Alexander and Molly Harrabin! germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/08/c...

Calling all German teachers: the German Screen Studies Network is running a DAAD-funded workshop in October at the University of Warwick on "Teaching German Through Film and Television: Language, Culture, and Context"! Spread the word: germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/05/w...

Super excited about this conference - welcome one & all! Featuring keynotes by @pdobryden.bsky.social Sara Hall & Qinna Shen!

Friendlies: the fabulous comrades over at VPL have fixed the sound system. The event has been rescheduled: October 9! I'll introduce the film and the Magazinist duo will accompany the screening with a NEW score. Registration free and open to public. vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68a5f...

The clock is ticking! Get those abstracts in!

Not long until the deadline! We can’t wait to hear from you! Please share with your networks - @ddgc.bsky.social @ags-gbi.bsky.social @wigsblog.bsky.social

Our writing support groups are forming for Sept-Dec. They have been around since 2018 and are a vital component of community building in German studies. Join us! Reach out if you have questions. And pls share with colleagues, students. @ddgc.bsky.social www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...

UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.

Louise Brooks masterpiece, Pandora's Box (1929), explored in new multi-page Weimar Cinema dossier. More at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/07/pand...

Well, I finally got around to creating an account. Follow-me if you are interested in modern German History, the First World War in particular.

Absolutely delighted to officially be Dr. Harrabin after passing my viva with minor corrections this morning! Thank you to my examiners @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social & @katherinestone.bsky.social for their meaningful engagement with my work!

The GSSN would like to congraulate our founder, Professor Erica Carter, who has been made a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.This is wonderful news and very much deserved!

We're excited about the recent publication of Charting Asian German Film History, ed. by Qinna Shen, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick and Qingyang Freya Zhou! You can find out more on our website, with a feature by Zach (!), and don't forget to purchase your copy today!

Looks like a great resource for anyone teaching or researching Weimar film!

Delighted to announce that I have joined WeimarCinema.org as Associate Editor, working alongside Anton Kaes & Cynthia Walk! Followers may be interested to read the latest issue which includes a dossier on Pandora's Box by Shoshana Schwebel! www.weimarcinema.org/page/pandora...

Reposting to remind people of our CfP! I’m really excited about this conference & looking forward to some great discussions about queer Weimar!

Look what arrived today @jonahgarde.bsky.social!

If you're a cis person in the US, today would be a really good day to find out how you can help your local trans community organisation. Money, time, professional skills, and care, are all useful.

Elizabeth Ward is keen to hear from academics with an expertise in either film relations between the GDR & African countries or film relations between the GDR & Southern/East Asian countries for a potential edited volume contribution should contact Elizabeth directly. Contact details below.

Hugely looking forward to giving this talk at the Queer Kinship network: “Pets Portraits and Sapphic Modernism: Queer Kinship beyond the Human” Thursday 26 June 2025 5 pm (Italy) - 4 pm (UK) - 11 am (Toronto & East Coast) Join online! 🌈🎓 www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/seminars?fbc...

CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!

Das Letzte Ghetto ist nun vorbestellbar (€35). Danke, @megalley.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!

Pleased to see my review of @nwbaer.bsky.social's latest book Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism' out in Oxford German Studies today - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today marks Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 80th birthday - Fassbinder is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement, with films including Angst essen Seele auf (1974) & Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979)

Sharing the below petition to protest against the proposed changes to Modern Languages at Bangor University

This bank holiday weekend I went to @hayfestival.bsky.social for the first time! With fabulous talks from Daniel Kehlmann, @mishaglenny.bsky.social, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, Edi Rama, Anthony Seldon & @frederick65.ft.com I’ll be back again I think!

Sharing my birthday weekend with one of the most iconic pieces of Weimar cinema? Ok!!! Happy birthday to me & die freudlose Gasse ❤️

On this day in 1931, Fritz Lang's M premiered at UFA's Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, the film centers on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer

On this day in 1897, Kurt Gerron was born. He had a very successful career in cabaret & film, but was forbidden to work & sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto following Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. He was forced to make a propaganda film about the ghetto & was then sent and murdered at Auschwitz.

On this day in 1908, German actress Hertha Thiele was born. Thiele is noted for her starring roles in then controversial stage plays and films produced during the Weimar era, such as Mädchen in Uniform (1931).

We are pleased to share news of the UK release of Andres Veiel’s documentary Riefenstahl, on behalf of @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social. For full details including a trailer & where to watch the film, check out the post on our website: germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/04/25/u...

An exciting event happening in London (24.4.25 @ 7pm) - Screening of Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims by Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman. Berlin-based artist & filmmaker Arjuna Neuman will be joining for a free screening & Q&A Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arjuna-neu...

Don’t miss Natja Brunckhorst’s German box office hit TWO TO ONE (ZWEI ZU EINS) - in cinemas from May 2: germanscreenstudies.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/04/24/z...

Great talk, great book, great film! Glad I could attend this!

Unser aktuelles Programm findet ihr immer auf filmmuseum.at

🎙️ Durch Den Wolf Gedreht – The student podcast about DEFA director Konrad Wolf, from @filmuni.bsky.social

Today marks the 80th birthday of German director & screenwriter Werner Schroeter. His films include Eika Katappa (1969), Palermo oder Wolfsburg (1980), which won the Golden Bear at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival & Malina (1990).

Follow Friday: Laurie Marhoefer at @lauriem.bsky.social. Marhoefer is the author and historian behind "Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis" and "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love."

My comrade @katielmsutton.bsky.social's book on the masculine woman in Weimar Germany is one of the standard texts in queer Weimar studies. That the Naval Academy banned it along with dozens of other texts is devastating. + www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Sutton...

Dr Jon Hughes (Royal Holloway, University of London) explores the making of one of the landmark films of the Weimar Republic: Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer’s People on Sunday with the launch of his BFI Film Classic on the 1930 film.