Me going into the new academic year: youtu.be/nA-UBVKQFM0?...

Good to see Ingeborg Bachmann in The Nation:

This week from the archive: Bohemia Lies by the Sea by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Frank Beck and published in PN Review 228, March - April 2016. open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

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

📢📢📢 Upcoming Conference: 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026) Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI... Deadline: 31 October 2025 Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!

The MLitt in 'European and Latin American Literatures and Cultures' @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social allows students to undertake in-depth study of aspects of literature, film, history, politics, thought, and culture in....Read more: www.abdn.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Your morning coffee/cuppa really does make you happier ☕️😃 That's according to a 🇬🇧🇩🇪 collaboration between researchers at Warwick & Bielefeld University, which found that caffeine consumption in the morning left people feeling significantly happier and more enthusiastic. #ResearchInGermany

Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!

Starting school for the first time can be daunting, so children in Germany are given a 'school cone' (Schultüte) filled with goodies (usually sweets and stationary) to help them ease in to their new routine. 🥹

Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)

Morning kitten Cock-a-doodle-meow!

This is sick. And it's all about monetizing Facebook views. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Geburtstagskind👇🏼

Die „New York Times“ bringt Österreich 🇦🇹 ganz groß raus. #SoundOfMusic

New favourite Aberdeen image, from 1932.

Becoming German (again)! More than 80 years after their families were stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazis, a group of 54 reclaimed their German citizenship today. Deputy Ambassador Christian Doktor welcomed the new Germans at today's naturalisation ceremony.

gerald. ♥️ 12. juni 1953 - 22. august 2025 du wirst mir so arg fehlen. gal und ich haben uns bemüht, im weinen die richtigen worte zu finden und an das gerald-lachen zu denken. please haunt us! 💔 www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...

„Literatur reloaded“: In einer zehnteiligen Sendereihe lässt #Ö1 ab 1. September jeweils ein ungleiches Paar über einen Klassiker der Weltliteratur sprechen. Man darf sehr gespannt sein.

The APPG Modern Languages has shared a Letter to The Times by Baroness Coussins, Co-chair of the APPG, in response to their recent leading article arguing falling languages uptake narrows young people's horizons (www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...)

Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer

Delighted to see my Art of Resistance out in paperback with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social The cultural analysis is still so relevant, Austria not an exceptional case. The Far Right and the cultural protest it engenders is now geographically wide-reaching.

Self-portrait of the artist as a young man: 'Think of a love-smitten youth -- that is what [these songs] are about,' Dvořák said much later. And that is exactly how Pavol Breslik sings 'So many hearts seem fallen dead': www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3iK... Lyrics in Comments.

📣 New online event! 📍Decoding Sütterlin: Reading Handwritten Holocaust Documents Sütterlin specialist Carolin Sommer will shine a light on the mysterious script. We’ll uncover why it was introduced, the abandoned, and why it appears so hieroglyphic even when written in a neat hand buff.ly/iFTYXqv

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

Attn @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social students, alumni, and colleagues! The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture is now on LinkedIn - follow via lnkd.in/eNysb-Ek H/T Kit Dunster

PSA for UK-based fans of ye olde worlde film - 'Grand Hotel' on BBC4 just now.

After three incredibly eventful years, it is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to the United Kingdom. Auf Wiedersehen!

Congratulations to everyone getting their A-level results today, and a special herzlichen Glückwunsch to those who chose German! #ResultsDay

On 13 August 1961, construction of the Berlin Wall began. In the early hours of the morning, barbed wire fences were erected, dividing the city in two and tearing families and friends apart. The 155 km-long Berlin Wall stood for 28 years.

Will we accidentally lose our capability in geopolitically key languages as universities close provision? on.ft.com/3Hw6eq3

HEPI Director @nickhillman.bsky.social points to the 2004 decision to scrap the requirement for young people to study one language until the age of 16. “It is, quite clearly in my view, the worst educational policy of this century.” he says.

From Argentina to Vietnam, explore how writers worldwide read Thomas Bernhard. To celebrate its 200th entry, GlobalBernhard is now available in English — globalbernhard.univie.ac.at/en/

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...

Im morgigen @falter.at spricht Daniela #Strigl über ihr neuestes Buch ‚Zum Trotz‘. Besonders toll ist ihr Urteil über den Stellenwert der Literatur in Schule und Uni: „Wie soll man Begeisterung für Literatur vermitteln, wenn man selbst rudimentäre Kenntnisse hat?“

Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

PERSON OF THE DAY. 26 July 1945. Helen Mirren (Ilyena Mironov) was born in London. She was a star of the Royal Shakespeare Company before embarking on a hugely successful TV and film career. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Elizabeth II in The Queen. #80Today

"Er hat mir's doch befohlen!" Heute vor 79 Jahren auf der Titelseite von Neues Österreich (20.7.1946). #Nationalsozialismus #ZweiteRepublik #Entnazifizierung #Holocaust #Shoa #Shoah

"Geordies are brilliant at German ... So we should all be learning German in Newcastle and the North East." Declan Baharini, CEO of International Newcastle and "Express Yourself" Festival Coordinator talks about the Express Yourself festival of languages in the North East.

A brilliant second day of presentations and discussions at the international workshop East German Film and Cultural Diplomacy at @unileipzig.bsky.social, with a focus not only on the GDR and FRG, but also on France, the UK, Chile, and the US.

Die Internationale Thomas Bernhard Gesellschaft trauert um einen Giganten des Theaters, der wie kein zweiter Bernhards Bühnenwerk geprägt hat.

RIP, Claus #Peymann.

“German remains the hardest-hit language despite being the most sought-after language by employers, and access to it is becoming even scarcer at state secondaries.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

werde ab jetzt nur noch in thomas bernhard buchtiteln antworten

Kommenden Montag startet an der @uni-graz.at der Kongress der #IVG2025. Unzählige Sektionen und noch mehr Vorträge werden den steirischen Campus füllen!

Heute Abend bringt der #ORF eine legendäre Episode von Elisabeth T. Spiras #Alltagsgeschichten aus dem Jahr 1991: ‚Das kleine Glück im Schrebergarten‘. Auch die Dämonie der Gartengemütlichkeit spart Spira nicht aus.

On Wed 16 July at 6pm, Prof. Tim Baker and Aberdeen University's Centre for the Novel will be hosting a discussion group focusing on 'The Silver Darlings', Neil M. Gunn's 1941 novel of North Sea fisheries, in Aberdeen Central Library. More information here: aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Prof. Baker and AUCfN will also be hosting an impromptu reading group based around literary readings on a maritime theme between 2:30pm and 4pm on Friday 18th July, also at Aberdeen Central Library. Tickets and information can be found here: aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...