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Katya Krylova
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Senior Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Linguist. Austrianist. Literature, film & visual culture scholar. Views my own.
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W+IGS are saddened to hear today's announcement of the University of Nottingham's plans to close all modern language degrees.

Read our joint statement, written together with our colleagues at #AGS and the #GLA on the AGS website:
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November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Me going into the new academic year: youtu.be/nA-UBVKQFM0?...
Werner Herzog - Read
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September 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Good to see Ingeborg Bachmann in The Nation:
The Ghosts of Ingeborg Bachmann
Haunted by a dark past, the poet and novelist tried to explore the limits of language itself.
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September 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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.

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Bohemia Lies by the Sea by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Frank Beck
PN Review 228, March - April 2016
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September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel return to the Eastern Sector of #Berlin after wartime exile in 1948.
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social
📢📢📢 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!
Call for Papers: Rethinking Weimar Cinema (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026) Keynote Speakers: Dr Paul Dobryden (University of Virginia) Dr Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois Chicago) Dr Qinna Shen (Bryn Mawr College) Film Screenings: TBC, in collaboration with the Ultimate Picture Palace and Weimar 100 Organizers: Dr Lawrence Alexander (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) and Dr Molly Harrabin (University of St. Andrews/University of Warwick). Deadline for submitting proposals: 31 October 2025 The centennial years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) have seen a rise in academic engagement with and public interest in this period of German film history. As one of the most dynamic and experimental periods in global cinema, Weimar film has long been recognized for its aesthetic innovations, sociopolitical commentary, and influence on subsequent film movements. Yet these anniversary commemorations have not only reaffirmed the significance of this era, they have also opened the door for new questions, perspectives, and critical paradigms. This conference seeks to build on this momentum by revisiting Weimar cinema through fresh critical lenses and innovative methodologies, inviting participants to reconsider its cultural, political, and aesthetic significance in light of new archival discoveries, theoretical frameworks, and interdisciplinary approaches. The conference will take stock of our current understanding of Weimar film to map where this field may be heading as well as offering new genealogies of those images, figures, and texts that have defined it thus far. In addition to traditional conference papers, we welcome contributions from archivists, practice-based researchers, and works of videographic criticism. Please submit proposals of up to 300 words to lawrence.alexander@rsa.ox.ac.uk and mlh21@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31st October 2025. Notices of acceptance will be sent out in December. A limited number of bursaries are available to contribute to travel and accommodation costs for postgraduate and early-career speakers. This event is hosted by the Weimar Film Network and funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) as part of a three-year Promoting German Studies networking grant awarded to the German Screen Studies Network, co-directed by Dr Paul Flaig and Dr Dora Osborne.
September 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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...
September 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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
a man in a suit and tie drinking from a white cup
ALT: a man in a suit and tie drinking from a white cup
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September 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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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. 🥹
September 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)
August 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Morning kitten

Cock-a-doodle-meow!
August 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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This is sick. And it's all about monetizing Facebook views. www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Geburtstagskind👇🏼
August 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Die „New York Times“ bringt Österreich 🇦🇹 ganz groß raus.
#SoundOfMusic
Austria’s Hills Are Still Alive, 60 Years Later
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August 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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New favourite Aberdeen image, from 1932.
Cover of the Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial Holiday Number, showing a motorboat speeding along the Aberdeen Beach.
August 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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.
August 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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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! 💔

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Gerald Krieghofer (1953 - 2025): Ein höflich-empathischer „Bullshit-Detector“
Der Wiener Autor und Karl-Kraus-Experte entlarvte mit Witz und Sachkenntnis falsche Zitate und stellte den Verzerrungen, Manipulationen und Lügen des Internets sachlich und klug Fakten und Originalque...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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„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.
Literatur reloaded: Die Klassiker
Von Dante bis Mann, von "Hamlet" bis "Vom Winde verweht". In dieser zehnteiligen Ö1 Reihe von Elisabeth Weilenmann kommen jeweils zwei sehr unterschiedliche Stimmen zusammen: Zum einen eine junge P...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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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-...)
August 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer
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August 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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.
berghahnbooks.bsky.social Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · Aug 13
THE ART OF RESISTANCE: Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century by Allyson Fiddler (@allysonfiddler.bsky.social) is now available in paperback!

Find out more here: bit.ly/3U0qL9b

Review by @ahy-history.bsky.social

#History #CulturalStudies
August 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit
Eisenhüttenstadt offered spacious central flats rent-free for two weeks in effort to attract valuable professionals
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August 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM