@bniven.bsky.social
Avid fan of cakes, Nottingham Forest, and Wagner, and dedicated to a range of gloomy research topics
Great and detailed review of the Hans Mayer Conference in Cologne where I heard so many fascinating papers
06.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to speaking with students about the Kindertransport in Potsdam next week! Thanks to Ulrike Schneider for the invitation.
04.11.2025 10:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for the invite!!!
30.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much for the great opportunity! Very talkative students, a great class you have!
30.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to the discussion!
28.10.2025 08:18 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Eckermann: Ich fand Goethe betrübt vor. Zelter wusste keinen Rat. Christiane schimpfte über die Ausgaben in Marienbad. Goethe wollte zum Telefon eilen, um Herrn Göbel anzurufen, worauf Schubart, der händeringend auf und ab ging, den Geheimrat daran erinnerte, das Telefon gäbe es noch nicht.
25.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some photos of tonight’s showing of the film about Kindertransportee Hanna Miley “I was 8814” in Berlin (directed by David Peters and with so many other wonderful contributors.) Introduced by Amy Williams.
19.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At Berlin Indie Film Festival for the film „I was 8814“ about Kindertransportee Hanna Miley
19.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well done, Zelter!
16.10.2025 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you are in Berlin on 19th October please come and watch! This film about Hanna Miley’s Kindertransport journey won best documentary film at the Berlin Indie Festival. I am passing on Hanna’s invitation. Amy Williams and I were part of the film project and will be there to talk about it.
04.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
04.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can anyone give me an idea what 50 Reichsmark would have bought me in 1939 Germany? Trying to get a sense of how much that is…
04.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Instructions for the Viennese Kindertransport on 10 January 1939:
„Mit Rücksicht auf die Witterungsverhältnisse in England wird dringend empfohlen, den Kindern warme Unterwäsche und Kleidung, womöglich auch Gummischuhe mitzugeben“
Looking forward to discussing this film with Elizabeth Ward in Halle (Puschkino) on 29 October.
01.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to this conference next week…
01.10.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to speaking and hearing the papers at this conference in Limerick in October.
25.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Keeping the head down…
24.09.2025 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New book on Günter Grass following on from a great conference in Gdansk
23.09.2025 15:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just out…
23.09.2025 08:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Will do when back in UK!
19.09.2025 20:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Honoured to hold the opening lecture at the Hans Mayer Society conference. Thanks to @jansueselbeck.bsky.social for the great article on Metropolis which helped me.
19.09.2025 18:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Extrovertly passionate people awaken suspicion because the more emotionally cagy cannot grasp that such openness can be nature rather than design. They are also easily misunderstood and accused of manipulation. And they get bullied.
13.09.2025 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to speaking about representations of Jewish women in German literature and film at the Hans Mayer Conference in Cologne
13.09.2025 19:23 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
11.09.2025 08:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fantastic news - the film about the life of Kindertransportee Hanna Miley to which Amy Williams and I (to a much lesser extent) contributed has won best documentary at the Berlin Indie Film Festival - after successes in Austin and Cannes. So pleased for Hanna and the fantastic film team!
30.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you are in Cologne in September…
23.08.2025 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
