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Laura Bradley

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Professor of German & Theatre at the University of Edinburgh. Brecht, GDR culture, censorship, ghost stations. New to the Bluesky party!

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 28

My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social
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A smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair and glasses holds a copy of a book called Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, with a picture of the playwright Brecht on the front cover. A black cat is sitting in the background.

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Congratulations - looks fantastic!

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · Sep 11

Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel return to the Eastern Sector of #Berlin after wartime exile in 1948.

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Aug 24

Sunflowers in full bloom today at the Balgone Estate 😍🌻

A field of sunflowers against a blue sky, with a hill in the background.

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 30

This focus on spectatorship matters because the main aim of Brecht's epic theatre was to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. 🎭

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 30

Finally, it investigates Brecht's attempts to transform the composition of the audience and cultivate critical spectatorship at the Berliner Ensemble, the theatre he founded with his wife, the actor Helene Weigel, in East Berlin after the Second World War.

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 30

It relates this analysis of onstage spectatorship to Brecht's own formative experiences as a spectator, to his poems and theories, and to productions directed by Brecht and his close collaborators.

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 30

Taking its cue from Brecht’s call for theatre to develop 'the art of spectatorship', my book explores vision, observation, and spectatorship in twelve of his plays, spanning his career - using archival material and sources that have previously been rarely consulted.

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you for asking - and for all your help with the book! 😊

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you! You have a well-deserved mention in the acknowledgements!

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · Feb 5

Edinburgh Printmakers are delighted to welcome KUBA, our new cafe at Castle Mills from Wednesday 5 March.
KUBA will celebrate Pan-African and Scottish culinary cuisine and fusion through creative approaches to menu making, including both vegan and vegetarian offers.

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Tagesspiegel Berliner Bezirke @tagesspiegelberlin.bsky.social · May 29

Das Deutsche Historische Museum rekonstruiert sechs Ausstellungen, die zwischen 1945 und 1948 die Verbrechen der Nazis sichtbar machten. Oft organisiert von Holocaust-Überlebenden. www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/das-e...
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Das Erinnern begann sofort: Über frühe Ausstellungen zu Nazi-Verbrechen in Europa

Gewalt ausstellen: Das Deutsche Historische Museum in Berlin rekonstruiert sechs Ausstellungen, die zwischen 1945 und 1948 die Verbrechen der Nazis sichtbar machten. Oft organisiert von Holocaust-Über...

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Eleoma Bodammer @eleoma.bsky.social · May 28

If you want to find out about the first German translation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the subject of translating disability, my chapter on this has just been published in the book Narrative Universes of Disability. It includes a great image of Frankenstein's creature reading Werther.

The image shows a blue book with the title Narrative Universes of Disability: Global Perspectives, edited by Someshwar Sati, Shilpa Das and Banibrata Mahanta. The publisher is Springer.

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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · May 27

Here it is - my book on the interpreters at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial is now out in physical form (not in open access for a year or two unfortunately) but good to hold a copy www.bloomsbury.com/uk/interpret...

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · May 22

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of international students at universities across the U.S.

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking international students' legal status

The order prevents students from being arrested, detained or transported based on their legal status until their case is resolved.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · May 22

BREAKING: The Trump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling international students.

Harvard enrolls nearly 6,800 international students out of a student body of 24,596.

Current international students at Harvard will need to transfer or lose their legal status. nbcnews.to/4dzg6eq

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Apr 22

Looking forward to having an excuse to talk about Wedekind and Spring Awakening at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - and to seeing their productions of the play and musical soon 🎭 www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/unm... @rcsofficial.bsky.social

Unmasking Frank Wedekind | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

www.rcs.ac.uk

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures

The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war

www.theguardian.com

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · Mar 17

This week let's celebrate the German language!

👉 Your favourite German word?
👉 That incredible trip to Deutschland?
👉 Your German teacher, aka the best teacher of all time?

Use #ShoutOutForGerman and show everyone what German means to you!

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Mar 2

Welcome to Kuba! We loved trying out your menu today at Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social 😋

Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Dejan Mihajlović @mihajlovicfreiburg.com · Feb 23

Wir alle Robert, wir alle.

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Feb 19

Very sorry to see you have left - good luck with your next steps. Any university or organisation will be lucky to have you!

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Feb 8

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat

Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished

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Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social · Feb 5

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities

The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hello! I'm late but the weather was scary...

A little round eyed creature in a yellow so'wester and waterproof cape runs through a rain storm. The words STAY STORM SAFE are written in orange above

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BahnAnsagen @bahnansagen.bsky.social · Jan 8

"Liebe Fahrgäste, bitte achten Sie beim Aussteigen auch auf Ihr Gepäck! Wir sind nicht nachtragend." (deichvoigt) #BahnAnsagen

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Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jan 4

Lovely cold dry day for a long winter’s walk 😍❄️

Sand dunes, beach and sea with low clouds

Sea, beach and two people walking towards sand dunes in the distance

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Jan 1

Even though the fireworks were cancelled, David Hume still seems to have had a party-filled night

Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social · Dec 30

Rather pleased with this Berlin flea market find - a 1988 guide to a perestroika-themed dinner party, complete with invitations, menus & table decorations

Book called “Dinnerparty a la perestroika: Ein kulinarisches Drehbuch für einen russischen Abend”

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · Dec 19

“Light at the Wall” - Christmas 1961 at the Brandenburg Gate (Photo: Polizeihistorische Sammlung des Polizeipräsidenten in Berlin)

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