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Andrea Hammel
@andreahammel.bsky.social
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Writer, Academic, bringing people together; Professor of German, Director Centre for the Movement of People, Aberystwyth Uni; she/her; author of Finding Refuge (Honno Press 2022); The Kindertransport. What Really Happened (Polity 2024)
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Thanks to everyone who attended our launch event at the Senedd on Tuesday! It was a successful evening with speeches from Elin Jones MS, @andreahammel.bsky.social, @jacksargeantms.bsky.social, Victoria Kazymova, Iryna Kolpakova, Mohamad Karkoubi and Morris Brodie.

Exhibition on until 22 Jan 2026
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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A Senedd exhibition about the impact of war and displacement in Wales which commemorates refugees has been opened by Culture Minister Jack Sargeant MS and the Llywydd Elin Jones MS.

🖱️ tinyurl.com/4cdatrzp

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#senedd #wales #refugees #exhibition
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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golwg.360.cymru Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 8d
Coffáu ffoaduriaid rhyfel mewn arddangosfa yn y Senedd

Mae’n adrodd straeon ffoaduriaid, carcharorion rhyfel, a faciwîs o bob cwr o Brydain a geisiodd noddfa yng Nghymru.

✍️ Rhiannon Heledd Williams
Coffáu ffoaduriaid rhyfel mewn arddangosfa yn y Senedd
Mae’n adrodd straeon ffoaduriaid, carcharorion rhyfel, a faciwîs o bob cwr o Brydain a geisiodd noddfa yng Nghymru.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Our exhibition setup at the Senedd is now complete! You can join us at the launch event for 'Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales' on 11 Nov at 18.00

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November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Last session at the #AGS on the Elias Canetti project
September 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The inaugural panel continues: we’ve heard Sophia Buck on her fascinating project on “Enemy Studies”, charting claims about “Two Germanies” esp in UK German Studies. Now Bill Niven talking about meta-memory, meta-memorials and the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
September 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The AGS Conference @ags-gbi.bsky.social starts today! Browse our German Studies titles: bit.ly/4lUraW8

authors incl.
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@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
@philiphahn.bsky.social
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September 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Looking forward to seeing everyone at AGS 2025! Please stop by the #PeterLangOxford stand to say hello! @ags-gbi.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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The first panel and the first break is behind us (and the coffee is drinkable ☕️👍). Now for Panel 2: convened by Gillian Pye and Anne Fuchs, this parallel panel is on “the good enough life” in Germanaphone literature and film. First speaker is Maria Roca-Lizarazu on Shida Bazyar’s Drei Kameradinnen
Classroom seen from the rear with the backs of the audience’s heads visible and a speaker at the front of the room facing the camera
September 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Hello #AGS2025! Call by our stand to check out these and more brand new titles in #GermanStudies. buff.ly/S0B7Ihh @ags-gbi.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Beautiful readings and fascinating discussion from Natasha Kelly - what a treat! Fortunately, for those who aren’t able to be here, the event was filmed so keep an eye out for the recordings. Now drinks and dinner! 🥂🍽️
Two speakers sit in armchairs on stage
September 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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After the first few panels and before the Conference Dinner, a plenary many of us having been really looking forward to: the President's Guest Natasha A. Kelly in conversation with Kirstin Gwyer 🎤👌
Two seated speakers on a stage at the front of a fairly full semicircular auditorium
September 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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After an aperitif in the charming courtyard, dinner in the elegant dining hall of St John’s College
A wide angle view of a dining hall full of long tables with seated guests
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Back in St John’s College for Day 2 of #AGS2025 🙂
Entrance to an old stone college building in Oxford with an open door leading to a grassed quad
September 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Full classrooms at 9am - delegates at #AGS2025 are making the most of a great choice of parallel panels in the first session of day 2
A classroom photographed from outside through the window with the words “Larkin Room” written on the window pane A classroom photographed from outside through the window with the words “Prestwich Room” written on the window pane
September 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Last session of talks on Day 2 at #AGS2025 is (for me and all the other delegates packing the Prestwich Room) the first of two panels on Black Literature and Culture in German…
The front of a classroom with the panel’s two co-chairs standing next to a television screen
September 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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@ags-gbi.bsky.social snippets
September 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025
An audience stands listening to a speaker on stage
September 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Hermynia zur Mühlen is absolutely overdue for rediscovery. Great thread. She is included in @andreahammel.bsky.social's chapter 'Refugees from National Socialism in Britain' in The 1940s volume of Bloomsbury's Decades Series (available in paperback). Also, Andrea's 2008 book on women refugee writers
neglectedbooks.com Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Aug 12
Overdue for rediscovery: Hermynia zur Mühlen (1883-1951), Austrian countess, author of Marxist fairy tales, translator, and expat novelist. 🧵
August 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Writing in @uk.theconversation.com, @andreahammel.bsky.social explains that Abschied (Parting) by Sebastian Haffner is dominating Germany’s bestseller charts over 25 years after the author's death, after the manuscript was discovered in a drawer.

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Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller
Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.
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July 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Mewn erthygl yn @uk.theconversation.com, mae @andreahammel.bsky.social yn egluro bod Abschied (Parting) gan Sebastian Haffner ar frig siartiau gwerthu llyfrau'r Almaen dros 25 mlynedd wedi marwolaeth yr awdur, wedi i'r llawysgrif gael ei darganfod mewn drôr.

Mwy: tinyurl.com/3788hzvp
Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller
Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.
tinyurl.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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I wrote a short article on Sebastian Haffner's Abschied
theconversation.com/parting-by-s...
Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller
Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.
theconversation.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Busy launch of our exhibition Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales
June 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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We are ready for the launch of our exhibition Unsettled Lives: War and Displacement in Wales. After Word War II over 60 Mio people were displaced in Europe, including Wales. The exhibition also shows work by more recent arrivals from Syria and Ukraine.
June 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Our new exhibition
June 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM