Elizabeth Ward
@elizabethward.bsky.social
Film historian in German cinema. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig researching German cultural diplomacy at film festivals during the Cold War. Lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina.
www.elizabeth-ward.com
www.elizabeth-ward.com
I would argue one of the aesthetically funkiest railways stations in Germany...
...anyone recognise where it is?
...anyone recognise where it is?
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I would argue one of the aesthetically funkiest railways stations in Germany...
...anyone recognise where it is?
...anyone recognise where it is?
Weather vanes seem to have avoided denazification efforts in this town...
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Weather vanes seem to have avoided denazification efforts in this town...
“No, I’m not. I’m not going back in there again, not this time, never going back, never.”
On the count of three, it’s time to channel your inner-Marlon Brando…..
1, 2, ….
On the count of three, it’s time to channel your inner-Marlon Brando…..
1, 2, ….
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“No, I’m not. I’m not going back in there again, not this time, never going back, never.”
On the count of three, it’s time to channel your inner-Marlon Brando…..
1, 2, ….
On the count of three, it’s time to channel your inner-Marlon Brando…..
1, 2, ….
A bold slogan for the German market 👀
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A bold slogan for the German market 👀
Los geht’s!
It’s lovely to be back in Hamburg for the 38th Cinefest Kongress, this year on the theme “Zwischen Schreibmaschine und Filmkamera Literaten und ihr Verhältnis zum Film”.
It’s lovely to be back in Hamburg for the 38th Cinefest Kongress, this year on the theme “Zwischen Schreibmaschine und Filmkamera Literaten und ihr Verhältnis zum Film”.
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Los geht’s!
It’s lovely to be back in Hamburg for the 38th Cinefest Kongress, this year on the theme “Zwischen Schreibmaschine und Filmkamera Literaten und ihr Verhältnis zum Film”.
It’s lovely to be back in Hamburg for the 38th Cinefest Kongress, this year on the theme “Zwischen Schreibmaschine und Filmkamera Literaten und ihr Verhältnis zum Film”.
Schöne Sprachen… sowie Französisch 😂
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Schöne Sprachen… sowie Französisch 😂
I don't know how politicans and civil servants working at the UK Home Office can look themselves in the mirror.
But then they probably don't out of fear at who's looking back.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But then they probably don't out of fear at who's looking back.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I don't know how politicans and civil servants working at the UK Home Office can look themselves in the mirror.
But then they probably don't out of fear at who's looking back.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But then they probably don't out of fear at who's looking back.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I am currently filling out a Gantt chart that requires me to declare what I will be doing in October 2030.
I would like to point out that I still haven’t decided what I am having for dinner this evening.
I would like to point out that I still haven’t decided what I am having for dinner this evening.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I am currently filling out a Gantt chart that requires me to declare what I will be doing in October 2030.
I would like to point out that I still haven’t decided what I am having for dinner this evening.
I would like to point out that I still haven’t decided what I am having for dinner this evening.
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Important to remember that OpenAI has an agreement with Canvas since this summer.
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Important to remember that OpenAI has an agreement with Canvas since this summer.
Seizing the opportunity of an unexpectedly warm afternoon to take teaching outside and onto the Ziegenwerder. I dare say that the @viadrina.eu is the only university in the world where I can say “If you are facing Poland, you are group one. If you are facing Germany, you are group two”.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Seizing the opportunity of an unexpectedly warm afternoon to take teaching outside and onto the Ziegenwerder. I dare say that the @viadrina.eu is the only university in the world where I can say “If you are facing Poland, you are group one. If you are facing Germany, you are group two”.
I genuinely thought I had the option of inserting a 50 cent coin
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I genuinely thought I had the option of inserting a 50 cent coin
Public service post: If you are visiting Berlin for the first time this week and are wondering why certain Berliners seem surprisingly happy today:
(1) they are Berliners who work in Brandenburg
(2) that's not happiness, it's smugness
(1) they are Berliners who work in Brandenburg
(2) that's not happiness, it's smugness
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Public service post: If you are visiting Berlin for the first time this week and are wondering why certain Berliners seem surprisingly happy today:
(1) they are Berliners who work in Brandenburg
(2) that's not happiness, it's smugness
(1) they are Berliners who work in Brandenburg
(2) that's not happiness, it's smugness
Froher Reformationsbrötchentag an alle, die ihn feiern
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Froher Reformationsbrötchentag an alle, die ihn feiern
A huge thanks to @bniven.bsky.social for coming to speak to BA history students at @unileipzig.bsky.social today about the background and reception of the East German DEFA film (and 2015 remake) “Nackt unter Wölfen”.
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A huge thanks to @bniven.bsky.social for coming to speak to BA history students at @unileipzig.bsky.social today about the background and reception of the East German DEFA film (and 2015 remake) “Nackt unter Wölfen”.
A fascinating and very thought provoking evening: it was a real pleasure and honour to be able to moderate the pre- and post-screening discussion by Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social for the screening of “Jud Süß”.
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A fascinating and very thought provoking evening: it was a real pleasure and honour to be able to moderate the pre- and post-screening discussion by Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social for the screening of “Jud Süß”.
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Looking forward to the discussion!
Very much looking forward to moderating the discussion by Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social on the production and reception histories of the 1940 National Socialist film Jud Süß at Halle's Puschkino on Wednesday 29 October.
puschkino.de/film_2491/ju...
puschkino.de/film_2491/ju...
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Looking forward to the discussion!
Very much looking forward to moderating the discussion by Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social on the production and reception histories of the 1940 National Socialist film Jud Süß at Halle's Puschkino on Wednesday 29 October.
puschkino.de/film_2491/ju...
puschkino.de/film_2491/ju...
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Very much looking forward to moderating the discussion by Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social on the production and reception histories of the 1940 National Socialist film Jud Süß at Halle's Puschkino on Wednesday 29 October.
puschkino.de/film_2491/ju...
puschkino.de/film_2491/ju...
Ich wohne seit 5 Jahren in diesem Land und alle Fälle von sexueller Belästigung, die ich erlebt & beobachtet habe (und in die ich eingegriffen habe, während alle anderen Fahrgäste schweigen blieben), wurden von weißen Männern begangen, die mit Berliner, Brandenburger oder Sächsischem Akzent sprachen
“Ich habe gar nichts zurückzunehmen”
- sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.
- sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Ich wohne seit 5 Jahren in diesem Land und alle Fälle von sexueller Belästigung, die ich erlebt & beobachtet habe (und in die ich eingegriffen habe, während alle anderen Fahrgäste schweigen blieben), wurden von weißen Männern begangen, die mit Berliner, Brandenburger oder Sächsischem Akzent sprachen
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Imagine what American media would be saying if this was happening in an EU state
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Imagine what American media would be saying if this was happening in an EU state
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A personal opinion is that if an archive is moving to ‘structured content releases’, it is no longer an archive but a private comms repository. What an incredible loss to our understanding of UK culture and heritage.
"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a
Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…
cstonline.net
October 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A personal opinion is that if an archive is moving to ‘structured content releases’, it is no longer an archive but a private comms repository. What an incredible loss to our understanding of UK culture and heritage.
At the start of the week, I bought an emotional support plant to get me through the first teaching week. (I am a millennial - we have no emotional resilience.)
After a week with me, my plant seems to have developed a form of Stockholm syndrome.
After a week with me, my plant seems to have developed a form of Stockholm syndrome.
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
At the start of the week, I bought an emotional support plant to get me through the first teaching week. (I am a millennial - we have no emotional resilience.)
After a week with me, my plant seems to have developed a form of Stockholm syndrome.
After a week with me, my plant seems to have developed a form of Stockholm syndrome.
This type of abhorrence takes me back to GCSE food technology when 14 year olds were tasked with coming upon with a “novel” take on a perfectly well-functioning dish, the results of which frequently bordered on a hate crime.
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This type of abhorrence takes me back to GCSE food technology when 14 year olds were tasked with coming upon with a “novel” take on a perfectly well-functioning dish, the results of which frequently bordered on a hate crime.
First teaching day of the @viadrina.eu semester done 🌟
Six hours, three seminar groups, super students, no major technology fails.
Now I’m off to lie down in a darkened room.
Six hours, three seminar groups, super students, no major technology fails.
Now I’m off to lie down in a darkened room.
October 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
First teaching day of the @viadrina.eu semester done 🌟
Six hours, three seminar groups, super students, no major technology fails.
Now I’m off to lie down in a darkened room.
Six hours, three seminar groups, super students, no major technology fails.
Now I’m off to lie down in a darkened room.
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Wieder ein schlechter Tag für die AfD im Osten.
Deklassiert in der OB-Stichwahl in Frankfurt (Oder) und sogar in Eisenhüttenstadt - wo sie sich echte Hoffnung machte - deutlich verloren.
Deklassiert in der OB-Stichwahl in Frankfurt (Oder) und sogar in Eisenhüttenstadt - wo sie sich echte Hoffnung machte - deutlich verloren.
October 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Wieder ein schlechter Tag für die AfD im Osten.
Deklassiert in der OB-Stichwahl in Frankfurt (Oder) und sogar in Eisenhüttenstadt - wo sie sich echte Hoffnung machte - deutlich verloren.
Deklassiert in der OB-Stichwahl in Frankfurt (Oder) und sogar in Eisenhüttenstadt - wo sie sich echte Hoffnung machte - deutlich verloren.