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Theaterwissenschaft | Theatre Studies

Aktuell: Formationsprozesse von Theater im deutschsprachigen Raum

Lehrende (Theaterwissenschaft) und Lernende (Theorbe, Tai Chi) | Balkongärtnerin | 🐢
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ckirschstein @kirschstein.bsky.social · Aug 8
L. Cohen, Etiquette, The Energy of Slaves
The Ark you're building in your yard Will you let me on Will you let me off Don't you think we all should study Etiquette before we study Magic N.Y. 1967
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kopptisch.bsky.social
SM #Liebich will sich jetzt »Anne Frank« nennen und Eintrag auf »divers« ändern. Plumpe Provo, weshalb ich hier nix verlinke. Standesamt Merseburg weigert sich bisher – er müsse persönlich vorsprechen. Dann würde aber sein Haftantritt endlich verwirklicht. #FCKNZS
January 29, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely!

*to submit an abstract before 21/3
CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven. This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife. Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance. Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage performers, eyewitnesses. This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters? We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to: - making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures - making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation - performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory) - materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects - diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality - occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists) - affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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bookshop.org
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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todoheiko.bsky.social
Auf Mastodon ist man sich recht einig bei der Frage Fussballweltmeisterschaft boykottieren oder nicht?

So eine Umfragefunktion fehlt hier in bsky.

Aber versuchen wir es mal anders:

Ein Like für den 1. Kommentar bedeutet ja.

Ein Like für den 2. Kommentar bedeutet nein.

Bitte Repost.
Fussballweltmeisterschaft boykottieren oder nicht? Bitte wegen der Reichweite teilen. Danke. 94% Ja, bykottieren 2% Nein 5% Bin nicht sicher
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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ceichfeldleipzig.bsky.social
Nie wieder! Gedenktag für die Opfer des deutschen Nationalsozialismus
January 27, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social
Through the black amnesias of heaven.
January 26, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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tinido.bsky.social
Stellt mal die Videofunktion auf stumm & schaltet Autoplay ab. In Minneapolis hat ICE erneut einen Menschen getötet & es gibt sehr verstörende Videos davon.
January 24, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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drkeichhorn.bsky.social
Deshalb noch einmal die Erinnerung daran, Veranstaltungen mit ECHTEN PAUSEN zu planen. Man wird nie jedem individuellen Bedürfnis Rechnung tragen können. Aber Programme, in denen praktisch ALLE über ihre Grenzen gehen müssen, lassen sich vermeiden – wenn man es will.

4/5
January 23, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Running off to work on a story.

In the meantime:

Religious left: still a thing.
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d
Arrests calmly ongoing.

This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.
January 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM
kirschstein.bsky.social
Das Wahlprogramm für eine völkische Hölle.

www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
AfD-Entwurf für 2026 trifft auch eigene Wähler: Harte Linie bei Migration, Medien und Familie | MDR.DE
Remigration, Loyalitätsprüfungen, Kürzungen im Alltag: Der AfD-Entwurf für 2026 greift demokratische Grundprinzipien an und trifft auch die eigenen Wähler.
www.mdr.de
January 23, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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nachtkritik.bsky.social
Sie war eine der bekanntesten Künstlerinnen mit ostdeutschen Wurzeln: Die Schauspielerin und Sängerin Angelika Mann. Jetzt ist sie im Alter von 76 Jahren gestorben. Unser Meldung.
nachtkritik.de/meldungen/sc...
Schauspielerin und Sängerin Angelika Mann verstorben
23. Januar 2026. Angelika Mann ist tot. Wie unter anderem Der Spiegel berichtet, erlag die 1949 in Berlin geborene Schauspielerin und Sängerin am 21. Januar 20
nachtkritik.de
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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colborne.bsky.social
“what Trump, Putin or even Le Pen or Weidel are doing has a side that seems fearless. A new kind of trumpeting superiority. That attracts people. They lie and are completely blunt in their deception….and are sure that this is exactly what their followers want” (interview w Klaus Theweleit, Jul 2025)
January 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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missingthept.bsky.social
"Out, damned spot!"
January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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beritmiriam.bsky.social
Der grönländische Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen hat in seiner Pressekonferenz übrigens gesagt, dass er keine Informationen über den "Deal von Trump/Rutte hat.
Medien, die diesen "Deal" in Beiträgen nicht kritisch und mit Grönländischem Input einordnen, reproduzieren imperiale und koloniale Gewalt.
January 22, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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meta-bene.bsky.social
Enten in Österreich
Cartoon aus wenigen schwarzen Tuschestrichen. Eine schwimmende Ente sagt: TOPFEN.
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
kirschstein.bsky.social
"I'm doing you a favor by not coming and stealing the spotlight."
January 16, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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elifoezmen.bsky.social
Das Beste, was ich heute sah:
landbeforetim.bsky.social Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 19d
The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined
January 12, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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calycosmos.bsky.social
The days of colonialism & imperialism have to end!
The natural resources of Greenland belong to its people.
Respect borders, sovereignty, & the freedom of all people.
Stop the madness of wanting to rule the Western Hemisphere.

#HandsOffGreenland and #DemocracyForAll

www.cbsnews.com/news/greenla...
Greenland conquest "would be disastrous," Sen. Tim Kaine says
"I think Congress will stop [President Trump', both Democrats and Republicans," Sen. Tim Kaine about any plans to take Greenland by military force.
www.cbsnews.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
kirschstein.bsky.social
Wintertag
Stadtgottesacker im Schnee
January 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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druce.ai
Researchers and artists at Sorbonne University trained an artificial intelligence to emulate Molière's themes, structures and humor, producing a new play.
Can A.I. Match Molière’s Wit? These Researchers Think So.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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seanmoncrieff.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
kirschstein.bsky.social
Quorum erreicht 🥳
kirschstein.bsky.social ckirschstein @kirschstein.bsky.social · 26d
Ich habe eben mitgezeichnet. Bitte tut das auch.
emsig.bsky.social Der Herr Sigismund @emsig.bsky.social · 26d
Ihr braucht Ablenkung vom Doomscrolling? Dann gibt es hier etwas sinnvolles, nämlich die Petition "Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen" mitzuzeichnen.

Vielen Dank!
January 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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sorrowscopes.bsky.social
Cancer: New year. New you? Let’s hope so.
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM