@victorianceleb
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
If you are in Vienna next Tuesday, join us at #Wienbibliothek for some (German-language) glimpses into AAD editors' workshop:
www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun...
#AustrianAuden #DigitalEdition #DigitalHumanities #DSE #SDE
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heute in einer woche geht es in den loosräumen der #wienbibliothek darum, wie ein britischer dichter in hinterholz 6 in kirchstetten landet und wie er (sich in) österreich (ein)findet. #forschungswerkstatt cc: @victorianceleb.bsky.social
www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun...
Regie Otto Schenk? Muss ich sehen!
Photograph of the Schaubühne theatre on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin
Photograph of Schaubühne theatre programme for Richard III
Truly seeing out the old year with a bang, in every sense of the word, at Schaubühne Berlin - here‘s to a very happy 2026!
Building tools at the interface of #DigitalEdition and #NetworkAnalysis.
Stay tuned. 👀
fedihum.org/@timofruehwi...
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Very happy to share some of our research into #AustrianAuden with an international audience in this article by @philipoltermann.bsky.social in @theguardian.com.
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Briefe an Hugo 💌 @theguardian.com berichtet über den Fund von bisher unbekannten Korrespondenzen des Autors W. H. Auden in Niederösterreich, untersucht von ÖAW-Forscher:innen Sandra Mayer und Timo Frühwirth @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social ✒️📮 Mehr dazu ➡️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Delighted to make available previously unknown (& unexpected) correspondence by poet #WHAuden to his Austrian lover & confidant, shedding new light on Auden's life in Austria & on Austrian queer history.
www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/sens...
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📣 Excited to release v0.1.0 of the "Auden in Austria Digital" scholarly digital edition, funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social, at the @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social of @oeaw.bsky.social!
Featuring previously unpublished correspondences by #WHAuden in Austria.
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auden.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/index.html
Photo of a book dedication reading „For Sandra with all the good wishes and much love from Merlin and gratitude for coming so far 16 Oct 2025
Double page of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, recounting the story of the „Austrian schoolgirl“ Sandra Mayer
Photo of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, taken in a bookshop in Brick Lane
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.
Photo of a book dedication reading „For Sandra with all the good wishes and much love from Merlin and gratitude for coming so far 16 Oct 2025
Double page of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, recounting the story of the „Austrian schoolgirl“ Sandra Mayer
Photo of Merlin Holland‘s book After Oscar, taken in a bookshop in Brick Lane
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.
Buntes Bildchen mit Arthur Schnitzler in schwarz weiß, der einen frontal anschaut und Alfred Kerr, der seitlich lächelt. Foto von der Startseite der verlinkten Seite
Ladies & Gentlemen, ich darf Sie auf unsere neue Seite mit allen Veranstaltungsteilnahmen von #ArthurSchnitzler bitten: #schnitzler-kultur! Wann war er im Kino? Wann hat er öffentlich gelesen, wann privat? Besuchen Sie:
schnitzler-kultur.acdh.oeaw.ac.at
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photo of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the camera
photo of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the camera
Some big news in the making.
Stay tuned for more.
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#AustrianAuden
photo of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the camera
photo of a photo/video shoot, with a person standing at a desk, looking at the camera
Some big news in the making.
Stay tuned for more.
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#AustrianAuden
Group photo of members of research unit Literary & Print Culture Studies, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, at conference "Exploring the Scandalous"
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!
Daniel Milkovits at the lectern in front of a PPT projection of his presentation title slide "Copy, Paste, Scandal!"
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
Insightful interview with Sharon Marcus (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social), opening our conference on "Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress“ at @univie.ac.at, co-organised by @oeaw.bsky.social, @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social & University of Zurich
www.oeaw.ac.at/news/vom-wil...
On 5 September 2025, literary scholar and theater director #ReinhardUrbach died.
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On 28 Sept 1973, he accompanied #WHAuden to his last reading. In the night of 28-29 Sept, Auden died in his Vienna hotel room.
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SCANDAL! EXPLORING THE SCANDALOUS: SCANDAL AS A CATALYST OF PROGRESS? MT EMAIRE University of Vienna, 24-26 September 2025 organised by Sandra Mayer, Barbara Straumann, Sylvia Mieszkowski & team Keynote Speaker: Sharon Marcus (Columbia University) ANNENSIS universitat wien ÖAW SENERSA TURICENS Universität ZürichuzH Lanis https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/scandal/
In roughly one month, @victorianceleb.bsky.social (@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social), Barbara Straumann (Zurich) and Sylvia Mieszkowski (Vienna) will be hosting a conference on #scandal at @univie.ac.at. I'm excited to be there with a talk on quoting as a polemical practice within the Austrian literary field!
Photo of door plate of Vienna City Library manuscript collection.
Photo of the Vienna City Hall.
Stamp "EX BIBLIOTHECA CIVICA VINDOBONENSI" on Vienna City Library document folder.
Photo of Auden autograph letters in Vienna City Library manuscript collection.
Another day, another #archive. This time: the manuscript collection of the #ViennaCityLibrary @wien.gv.at 🔎 📄 📃
Great vistas and great material!
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Huhu, I’d love your help! Any favorite quotes on activism? Please send me quotes on activism (any language + source) for my research project on activism. All contributions will be credited =D
Current collection/database here:
dilancakir.github.io/whatisactivi...
#activism #litwiss #Aktivismus
The image shows a stack of black, marbled binders with metal rings, placed on a wooden surface. The binders have labels on the spine, with visible text and numbers. The labels include "A-32" and "A-XII," with handwritten dates such as "8.4.85" and "2.7.35." The labels also feature a price tag with "2,735" and "8,74" written in orange. The binders appear to be part of an organized filing system, possibly for archival or record-keeping purposes. The background is a plain white wall with a visible electrical outlet.
black-and-white photographs of W. H. Auden
a metallic plaque reading the "Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur" in black, with "2. Stock" (2nd floor)
Summer is coming to an end, and we are back at the archive, this time at @oegfl.bsky.social - as always, exciting finds!
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Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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View of the Tejo in Lisbon, with bridge and sailing boats
Thank you @adho-org.bsky.social @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social for a great #DH2025 conference!
Access our presentations here:
🌐 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
🌐 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Onwards to @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social!
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Timo Frühwirth representing Auden in Austria Digital at the start of @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social in Lisbon! More from us in the course of this week! fedihum.org/@AAD_OeAW/11...
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‼️ Important statement by the Elise Richter Network ‼️
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Why looking for more information if you can just attack a scholarly project for your cheap propaganda?
"Es ist überflüssig, weitere Informationen über das Projekt einzuholen, um zur Erkenntnis zu gelangen, dass […] ein Lapsus bei der Fördergeldvergabe unterlief."
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