@hlaehnemann.bsky.social
Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
Two women on seats in an attic room
#nuntastic exhibition in Kloster Mariensee: three photographers exhibit their take on modern monastic life in the huge Baroque attic rooms of the convent. www.haz.de/lokales/umla...
04.08.2025 05:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Medingen, Margarete Puffen medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/20...
01.08.2025 02:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...
20.07.2025 19:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a book announcement, featuring as cover a woodcut by Ernst Barlach 'Die Vertriebenen' where three figures of displaced persons are shown, one of them carried on the shoulders of another
Watch out for this book by Charles Webster which presents the sum of his extensive research into early modern intellectual networks across Europe as seen through the correspondence of Samuel Hartlib www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Published by @openbookpublish.bsky.social
18.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy birthday, @fromtga.bsky.social, celebrated by @spiegel.de as 'Winner of the Day' www.spiegel.de/geschichte/d...
12.07.2025 05:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social
medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...
Great postdoc position at the ‘Österreichischer Bibelübersetzer’ project in Augsburg, until end of 2027 www.bbaw.de/stellenangeb...
21.06.2025 21:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The full playlist for the #OxfordMysteries is now online in its full glory - many thanks to Ben Arthur's team who did a magnificent job & to Ashley Castelino @oxmedstud.bsky.social for editing metadata and subtitles! A highlight of the @stedmundhall.bsky.social calendar!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Today (20 June) at the Taylorian: Freebie book event! Come and grab a book pre-loved by some of the Russian and German lecturers
20.06.2025 09:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Today 1.30-3pm in the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution Library
20.06.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
Wadham College Oxford is seeking to appoint to a one-year part-time (three-hour) Stipendiary Lectureship in German, starting 1 September 2025. Apply by 1 July.
Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...
Screenshot of film thumbnails showing many people dressed up in medievalish costumes, including angels and devils
Excitement rising! Just got from Ben Arthur the prefinal view of the whole @oxmedstud.bsky.social Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle ahead of the launch on Thursday medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
13.06.2025 08:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford on Saturday 14th June 2025 at 2:30PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...
12.06.2025 10:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Free to use from Friday 13 June to the end of the month: the great Cambridge Dictionary of Hymnology (I had fun writing the article on Leisen) hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk
11.06.2025 16:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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An initiative true to Nigel Palmer's legacy - donate for a travel fund to support graduate students doing archival work mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... @mediumaevum.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
09.06.2025 11:12 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Woman blowing a hunting horn with a banner showing two pink elephants and the caption 'Exhibition Treasured'
Congrats to @nikokontovas.bsky.social Andrew Dunning, Péter Tóth & the other colleagues @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social for a superbly curated exhibition!
06.06.2025 05:21 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
a green exhibition poster with pink elephants that reads TREASURED in big gold letters
My first co-curated exhibit opens this evening @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social!
TREASURED is a treasures exhibition that questions the very notion. It's also the first at the #Bodleian with around 50% non-Western material.
Those in #Oxford can visit starting tomorrow, 6 June. And it's free!
Brilliant teaser for the film documentation of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025 by the talented film team around Ben Arthur, now available on @oxmedstud.bsky.social Thx @torchoxford.bsky.social & @stedmundhall.bsky.social for support!
youtu.be/CCQJzg4ldd8
For @oxfordgerman.bsky.social !
04.06.2025 09:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In addition to the established essay competition, we have introduced a Discovery Section designed especially for those with no prior knowledge of German, making the competition more accessible than ever.
02.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0We are delighted to announce the launch of this year’s 'A German Classic', our annual essay competition for sixth-form students run by the Oxford German Network.
This year, we invite students to engage with Rainer Maria Rilke's New Poems (Neue Gedichte).
www.ogn.ox.ac.uk/files/2025_r...
smiling woman holding up a volunteer's badge in front of the west end of a Norman church in sunshine
I am giving free tours of Iffley Church today 2.30-4pm; there will be a few chocolate Ladybirds hiding in the churchyard in case children (or adults…) need an additional incentive beyond Norman architecture! St Mary the Virgin, OX4 4EG iffleychurch.org.uk
01.06.2025 07:33 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Tomorrow (Saturday): Recital 1.30pm in the Teddy Hall chapel. Do come - a fun programme, over in 30 mins! @stedmundhall.bsky.social
www.seh.ox.ac.uk/events/music...
Here a recording of my introductory talk, 'Bach at Home', on the importance of family for the formation of Johann Sebastian Bach's music youtu.be/MiDTLkiiJkM
25.05.2025 07:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday's Toccata concert with Anhad Arora was so much fun! Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/oxf...
25.05.2025 06:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Screenshot with thumbnails of music manuscripts and two people next to a grand piano as vignette
For some fun, listen to the 'Liederspiel' podcasts Anhad Arora and I did as lockdown project in 2020 liederspieloxford.medium.com
23.05.2025 05:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tmrw, Sat 23 May 2025, 2.30pm! First concert in the 'Bach Toccatas' series w/ Anhad Arora. I'll be talking about the social, literary, & religious context for Bach's works. Talk one: Bach at Home www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...
23.05.2025 05:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Grinning woman holding a fat grey book in front of a house door with a skeleton graffiti
Screenshot of a publisher's website
📯 Netzwerke der Nonnen are a material object AND open access available! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/netzwer...
21.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Totentanz #dansemacabre with Mai-Britt Wiechmann whose doctoral dissertation on
Lübeck incunables included the #MiddleLowGerman inscription now on the East side of my house! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdrmMLEL/
