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Sandra Mayer
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Literary and cultural historian interested in life writing, literature & politics, and digital editing (Auden Musulin Papers: https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at). ACDH, Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.sandramayer.org
Few things have had a more formative impact on my life and made me the person I am than this episode - so kindly and generously captured by Merlin Holland in his new book, presented at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Thursday, Oscar‘s 171st birthday. I think I might have shed a tear.
October 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
October 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Strong presence of @oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social RU Literary & Print Culture Studies last week at @univie.ac.at for the "Exploring the Scandalous" conference - great papers & great discussions!
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Great papers by @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social colleagues @diezypresse.bsky.social & Barbara Tumfart (on Bernhard’s Heldenplatz) & @ftb-oeaw.bsky.social‘s own @danielmilkovits.bsky.social, presenting on #Jelinek & quoting as a polemical practice! As ever, Austrian lit lends itself to a discussion of scandal
September 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Another day, another #archive. This time: the manuscript collection of the #ViennaCityLibrary @wien.gv.at 🔎 📄 📃
Great vistas and great material!

@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Summer is coming to an end, and we are back at the archive, this time at @oegfl.bsky.social - as always, exciting finds!
@oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
2 years after our #DigitalBio2023" conference, we're excited to see the complete cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" now online in the #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting:
ejlw.eu/announcement...

@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @wscholger.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Great opening of beautiful new archive/exhibion space/library of @qwien.bsky.social on 11 June with AAD project partner @andreasbrunner.bsky.social 🌈
#pridemonth #queerhistory #sappho

@hosiwien.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🔥Hot off the press - the first three contributions to our cluster on "Life Narrative and the Digital" in #EuropeanJournalofLifeWriting are online: ejlw.eu/announcement...

#DigitalBio2023 #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #LifeWriting

@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Poet #WHAuden sent this printed volume of his speech "Words & Notes", delivered at #SalzburgFestival 1968, to a friend. On the page, he crossed out the greater part of his bio note & wrote "Quatsch" ("nonsense") next to it.
@acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Postcard sent by #WHAuden to an Austrian friend (and sex worker) from Berlin in 1965. This blogpost spotlights the status of #BahnhofZoo for male sex work & the East German queer scene in 1960s #Berlin: hsl.hypotheses.org/2291.
@acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We are super excited to go to #Lisbon for @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social & have the chance to talk about "Formalizing retation in #TEIXML through #RDFa".
@acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social
@oeaw.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We are looking to identify "T.P.C" - a (presumably UK) printing press, collaborating with A. V. Fry & Co. publishers in producing London postcards in the 1960s.

(It is not tpc-print.co.uk, a younger UK company.)

@oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Dear #typography buffs - what can be said about this print other than it being a #serif typeface? From the difference between strong & thin lines, we would say transitional or Didone, rather than old-style (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif). Any hints will be helpful.
February 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Hier auch gibst nichts neues, aber das politische Aussicht in Amerika schaut sehr hässlich aus"

Poet #WHAuden in a letter from 1969.
January 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congratulations are in order for #AudeninAustriaDigital team member Timo Frühwirth, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on digitally editing the Auden Musulin Papers at @univie.ac.at! Special thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social & ACDH-CH @oeaw.bsky.social for making this project possible!
January 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The #AudeninAustriaDigital team wishes you all relaxing holidays, a festive season, and a happy new year! ❄️ ☃️ 🎁

@oeaw.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 11:12 AM
We have trained another @transkribus.bsky.social #HTR model of British-American poet #WHAuden's later handwriting (1957-1973) in English and German. ✍️ 🤖

auden_03 has a CER of 7.21% on the validation set (10% of full set).

We keep on working.

#ACDH-CH #ÖAW @fwf-at.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Question from the #AudeninAustriaDigital team: When #WHAuden invited Austrian friends to come to #NYC in the mid-1960s, he reminded them to bring a vaccination certificate. Any ideas which vaccines were required to enter the US (smallpox, tuberculosis)?

@fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 12:30 PM
The #AudeninAustriaDigital team are among 128 signees of an #OpenLetter calling on Austrian universities & research institutions to cease their activities on #X. We hope that our home institution @oeaw.bsky.social will follow the lead of @univie.ac.at & others.
@fwf-at.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 8:17 AM
A question from our #AudeninAustriaDigital team:
In 1964, #WHAuden invited friends from #Vienna to come visit him in #Berlin by plane. How difficult/exhausting/unpleasant would it have been to go there by train, crossing the borders of the GDR? Or was the poet just being generous?
November 21, 2024 at 5:02 PM
It was a tour de force, but we’ve made it: proudly presenting v1.0 of the Auden Musulin Papers scholarly digital edition! amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at

We are thankful to so many institutions & individuals: amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/team.html.

And now: off to new shores (and more Auden) doi.org/10.55776/P37139
August 2, 2024 at 4:25 PM
A few weeks ago, @ruthscobie.bsky.social and I had a wonderful time discussing our volume with Simon Morgan, Hannah Yelin and a great audience at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. A video recording of the event is now available here:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pukB...
March 4, 2024 at 11:09 AM
It was a blast celebrating our book with @ruthscobie.bsky.social, THE best of co-editors, our contributors, colleagues, and friends at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Some vistas simply never get old.
February 13, 2024 at 6:10 PM