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Laura Bradley
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Professor of German & Theatre at the University of Edinburgh. Brecht, GDR culture, censorship, ghost stations.
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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 28
My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social
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A smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair and glasses holds a copy of a book called Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, with a picture of the playwright Brecht on the front cover. A black cat is sitting in the background.
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artsandhums.bsky.social
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ags-gbi.bsky.social
The AGS's President (@pdavies.bsky.social) and VP (@profannasaunders.bsky.social) have put out a joint statement with Women+ in German Studies and the German Language Association in response to today's announcement of the University of Nottingham's plan to close all modern language degrees.

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November 7, 2025 at 7:12 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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Sunflowers in full bloom today at the Balgone Estate 😍🌻
A field of sunflowers against a blue sky, with a hill in the background. Close up of a sunflower in full bloom.
August 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair and glasses holds a copy of a book called Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, with a picture of the playwright Brecht on the front cover. A black cat is sitting in the background.
July 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Das Deutsche Historische Museum rekonstruiert sechs Ausstellungen, die zwischen 1945 und 1948 die Verbrechen der Nazis sichtbar machten. Oft organisiert von Holocaust-Überlebenden. www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/das-e...
Mehr Geschichte auf @tagesspiegel.de: www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...
Das Erinnern begann sofort: Über frühe Ausstellungen zu Nazi-Verbrechen in Europa
Gewalt ausstellen: Das Deutsche Historische Museum in Berlin rekonstruiert sechs Ausstellungen, die zwischen 1945 und 1948 die Verbrechen der Nazis sichtbar machten. Oft organisiert von Holocaust-Über...
www.tagesspiegel.de
May 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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pdavies.bsky.social
Here it is - my book on the interpreters at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial is now out in physical form (not in open access for a year or two unfortunately) but good to hold a copy www.bloomsbury.com/uk/interpret...
May 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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eleoma.bsky.social
If you want to find out about the first German translation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the subject of translating disability, my chapter on this has just been published in the book Narrative Universes of Disability. It includes a great image of Frankenstein's creature reading Werther.
The image shows a blue book with the title Narrative Universes of Disability: Global Perspectives, edited by Someshwar Sati, Shilpa Das and Banibrata Mahanta. The publisher is Springer.
May 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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BREAKING: The Trump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling international students.

Harvard enrolls nearly 6,800 international students out of a student body of 24,596.

Current international students at Harvard will need to transfer or lose their legal status. nbcnews.to/4dzg6eq
May 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of international students at universities across the U.S.
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking international students' legal status
The order prevents students from being arrested, detained or transported based on their legal status until their case is resolved.
nbcnews.to
May 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Looking forward to having an excuse to talk about Wedekind and Spring Awakening at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - and to seeing their productions of the play and musical soon 🎭 www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/unm... @rcsofficial.bsky.social
Unmasking Frank Wedekind | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
www.rcs.ac.uk
April 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures
The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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susiedent.com
German does yearning so well. ’Fernweh’, ‘far-sickness’, is the longing for distant places, while ‘Sehnsucht’ is a wistful desire for something intangible. #shoutoutforgerman
uk.diplo.de German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · Mar 17
This week let's celebrate the German language!

👉 Your favourite German word?
👉 That incredible trip to Deutschland?
👉 Your German teacher, aka the best teacher of all time?

Use #ShoutOutForGerman and show everyone what German means to you!
March 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
laurabradley.bsky.social
Welcome to Kuba! We loved trying out your menu today at Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social 😋
edinburghprints.bsky.social Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · Feb 5
Edinburgh Printmakers are delighted to welcome KUBA, our new cafe at Castle Mills from Wednesday 5 March.
KUBA will celebrate Pan-African and Scottish culinary cuisine and fusion through creative approaches to menu making, including both vegan and vegetarian offers.
March 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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mihajlovicfreiburg.com
Wir alle Robert, wir alle.
February 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat
Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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emmacayley.bsky.social
Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Hello! I'm late but the weather was scary...
A little round eyed creature in a yellow so'wester and waterproof cape runs through a rain storm. The words STAY STORM SAFE are written in orange above
January 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"Liebe Fahrgäste, bitte achten Sie beim Aussteigen auch auf Ihr Gepäck! Wir sind nicht nachtragend." (deichvoigt) #BahnAnsagen
January 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Lovely cold dry day for a long winter’s walk 😍❄️
Sand dunes, beach and sea with low clouds Sea, beach and two people walking towards sand dunes in the distance
January 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Even though the fireworks were cancelled, David Hume still seems to have had a party-filled night
January 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Rather pleased with this Berlin flea market find - a 1988 guide to a perestroika-themed dinner party, complete with invitations, menus & table decorations
Book called “Dinnerparty a la perestroika: Ein kulinarisches Drehbuch für einen russischen Abend”
December 30, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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slowberlin.bsky.social
“Light at the Wall” - Christmas 1961 at the Brandenburg Gate (Photo: Polizeihistorische Sammlung des Polizeipräsidenten in Berlin)
December 19, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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As a student at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Robert Louis Stevenson was arrested for taking part in a 2-day snowball riot between the university & Surgeons’ Hall… although as he was only a spectator (he claimed, successfully) he was let off with a warning
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“Snowballing Outside Edinburgh University”, by Samuel Bough (1822–1878). Watercolour on paper. A mid-nineteenth-century street scene in Edinburgh. At a street corner, on either side of the road, two groups of youths are throwing snowballs at each other. Some people watch from windows; other onlookers stand by. On one side of the street two women and a child hurry past.
December 17, 2024 at 1:00 PM