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Malena Ratzke
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German literature & manuscript culture up until 1650. Likely libraries.
@uni-jena.de
http://linktr.ee/malenaratzke
Banner image: København [Copenhagen], Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 79 2º, fol. 011r (detail). https://t1p.de/speculum-humanae-salvationis
How many floors are there in hell?

Join me for an online presentation on the visualization of hell in the 'Speculum humanae salvationis': Seminar Religion and Writing @ Columbia University. Tue Nov 18, 12pm EST (Europe: 6pm CET).
RSVP via t1p.de/hell-11-18 by Fri, Nov 14
#medievalsky #bookhistory
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Don't go astray: Pilgrim's way above the river Neckar.

This week in Heidelberg, German medievalists met for a conference on 'Heimat' - home & belonging.
(2) Cpg 148 @ub-heidelberg.bsky.social.
(3) Selling Heimat.

#academicnomad #bibliapauperum
#medieval #pilgrimage #academiccommunity
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Catching up with the #NineWorthies of #Braunschweig: Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, King David, Judah Maccabee

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t1p.de/di-35-83

t1p.de/9-h-comp-her...

#germanistiktag #germanistentag #germanstudies #prophets #typology #nineworthies #medieval 🗂️
September 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
September 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
You don't expect this scenery on a conference coffee break

#germanistiktag #braunschweig #germanistentag #germanstudies
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In pleasant news: Our book 'Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed' is now available in paperback.

Have a look, it's even got pictures!

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#graffiti📁 #art #anthropology #archaeology #epigraphy #medievalsky
July 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Vff myn libry ich mich verlan - I rely on my library! This wall art in the main building @ Uni Jena - doesn't it remind you of the book fool in Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools?

Basel, 1499. Bamberg, SBB, Inc.typ.Ic.I.1, 4v. CC-BY-SA 4.0.
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

#medievalsky #bookhistory
June 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Finally: No-nonsense labels in the cookie policy

#digitalnomad
April 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Mittelalterliche Bedeutungsforschung als widerständige Praxis. W. Harms und W. Hogrebe über Friedrich Ohly und die Bologna-Universität.
In: Friedrich Ohly. Vergegenwärtigung eines großen Philologen. Hrsg. von dens., Stuttgart 2014, 16–33.

#medievalsky #germanstudies #academiccommunity
April 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
April 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A review for my dissertation is in: Exciting!

Julia Gold, in Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. doi.org/10.37307/j.1...

(Btw, the book comes with an extended English abstract:
doi.org/10.1515/9783...)

#medievalsky #literature #germanstudies
#academiccommunity #rhetorics
April 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Seventies? No sevenTEEN - as in seventeenhundreds.

Exploring Schiller's garden house @uni-jena.de.

#unijena #Germanistik #academicnomad #Literaturgeschichte
#germanstudies #literature 🗂️
March 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Staying warm in #Wilhelmsburg: Grog recipe in a pub wall painting. "Rum's a must - Sugar an option - water not so much"

"Rum muß - Zucker kann - Wasser braucht nicht"

#Kneipe #pub #Lokalgeschichte #Hafen #Hamburg #history #sailor'scocktail #graffiti 🗂️
March 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Got up early today, looking forward to this guest lecture in Bamberg

#medievalsky #bookhistory
January 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Alexander v Dareios

"den mâhen er frôliche entfienc [...] / sîne hant fol pefferis er nam. / Ze Darien boten er do sprach: / "Diz ezzen dîn hêre, ob er mach."(Straßb. A.)

#Germanistik #Mediävistik
#academiccommunity #medievalsky
#germanstudies #literature #teaching #alexanderromance
January 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Getting ready to grade the last papers of the year. Sublime.

#Germanistik #Mediävistik
#academiccommunity #medievalsky
#germanstudies #literature #teaching
December 3, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Werde das Gefühl nicht los, dahinter steckt eine Parabel auf die Universitätswelt...

(Ja, es geht hier um sowas wie 'Erdung')

#academiccommunity #unijena
November 29, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Unexpectedly enchanted by this picture of Theodor W. Adorno. Can't seem to trace the source - can someone help out?

#criticaltheory #Adorno #theory #sociology #literature
November 7, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Latrinalia and Scrabble happily united @uni-jena.de

#graffiti #jena #germanstudies #academicwriting
October 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Rotunda writing - Albertina edition.
#academicnomad
#librarynomad
October 14, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Come with us to the allotment, they said. It's going to be fun!, they said.

(Kleingärtnermuseum Leipzig)

#urbangardening #Kleingarten 🌱 #gardening
August 31, 2024 at 2:57 PM
More happy fish on fish day! This manuscript has a whole fish game going on. Again: Surprising contrast to the emotional distress on the part of the humans (Flore sets sail to Babylon to look for Blanscheflur).

Heidelberg, UB, cpg 362, 79v.
doi.org/10.11588/dig...
#bookhistory #medievalsky
August 22, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Happy fish day!
Blanscheflur, distressed because she is being carried off to distant lands, can't find consolation in the wonders of the sea, but that doesn't keep this fish from enjoying the waves.

Heidelberg, UB, cpg 362, 48r.
doi.org/10.11588/dig...

#bookhistory #bestiary #medievalsky
August 22, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Onwards! Summer #writing at the comfortably cool German national library, passing fabulous Sgraffito art (Heiner Vogel). Annalena Metz has more on the art in this building, see alt text!

#bookhistory #academicwriting #writing #library
#librarynomad
#medievalsky #skybrarians
August 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM