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Posts by Christian Nikolaus Opitz

Die Logik, das dann trotzdem in Schwarz-Weiß zu machen, ist auch gelinde gesagt eigenwillig ... 🤔

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Indiskrete Fiktionen Eine Theorie des Schlüsselromans als ästhetisch und moralisch fragwürdige Gattung sowie ein Sittengemälde des Feuilletons der Gegenwart. Der Schlüsselroman ist eine zwielichtige Gattung. Hinter seine...

Was, wenn Fiktion nicht Fiktion ist?
Was, wenn das eigene Leben in einen Roman gezerrt wird?

Mein Buch "Indiskrete Fiktionen. Theorie und Praxis des Schlüsselromans" kann man hier inzwischen im open access herunterladen.

www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383533217...

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Map of the Peak District National Park,  designated 13 April 1951

Map of the Peak District National Park, designated 13 April 1951

Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4

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intrigued to read that in 1908 the 'Kärntner Bar' opened in Vienna, that didn't admit women, and that this was considered outrageous. the architect, Adolf Loos, based it on his experiences in America, where banning women from bars was the norm (it's now the Loos American Bar, a tourist magnet)

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Cover of book 'Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815' by Morgan Golf-French

Cover of book 'Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815' by Morgan Golf-French

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳

Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work.

In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the...

academic.oup.com/book/62547

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A word's etymology can shed light on many things, none of which is in the same postcode as what it 'really' means.

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Rosenberg Book Prize – Central European History Society

@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for its Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for an outstanding monograph on Central European history published in 2025. Please spread the word! For eligibility and nomination process info visit: tinyurl.com/h3urjpr4. Deadline: June 1, 2026.

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Das Buch-Cover von »Denkfigur Wunderkammer« auf gelbem Hintergrund.

Das Buch-Cover von »Denkfigur Wunderkammer« auf gelbem Hintergrund.

Die narrative Transformation vormusealen Sammelns: Beispiele von Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Fontane und Wilhelm Raabe.  

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7999-1/

#Wunderkammer #Museum #19Jahrhundert #Literaturwissenschaft

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Gute Männer, schlechte Männer Vor einer Weile habe ich einen Text geschrieben, Puppen ohne Leben. Ausgelöst von der Erkenntnis, dass auch Männer, die wir für gut hielten in den Epstein-Files…

Doubling down."Fälle von extremer Gewalt gegen Frauen gibt es immer wieder ... es ändert sich nichts. Weil wir immer den Einzelfall sehen. Den Exzess. Und nicht das System, aus dem sie entstehen. Der Sauerstoff, den die bösen Blumen zum Blühen brauchen, bleibt unsichtbar"
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Auch Christine de Pizans "Buch von der Stadt der Frauen" ist ein #WutBuch und eine AvivA-Empfehlung zur Indiebookchallenge im März. www.aviva-verlag.de/programm/das...
Natürlich auch mit uns auf der Leipziger Buchmesse!
#indiebookchallenge #lbm26 #avivaverlag #citedesdames

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Photo of Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.
TEXT: Lecture "Young Poets" (1957) published in Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961 (1964), p. 56.

Photo of Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. TEXT: Lecture "Young Poets" (1957) published in Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961 (1964), p. 56.

Edith Sitwell. A Portrait of Sitwell by Roger Fry, 1915. "Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. " - wiki

Edith Sitwell. A Portrait of Sitwell by Roger Fry, 1915. "Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. " - wiki

"As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten."

--- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964):

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Copies of ‘Die Roma’

Copies of ‘Die Roma’

Ullstein owl mascot

Ullstein owl mascot

So thrilled to be launching the German translation of ‘The Roma’ (Ullstein) in Berlin today

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Abendjournal: Fast jeder Beitrag handelt von Männergewalt oder den Folgen. Christian Ulmen, Sänger Seiler, SOS-Kinderdorf (Rücktritt Schlack), Iran-Krieg, Platzsturm beim Wiener Derby. So auffallend wie heute ist das selten.

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In den Knast mit dem Künstler! - fm4.ORF.at Über die Enttarnung von Banksy als post-millenniales Non-Event.

I wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about the very millennial non-event of Reuters doxxing Banksy because it’s unintentionally funny too.
Auf Deutsch aber.

fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...

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Wenn man sich anschaut, wie viel Zeit und Energie darauf verwendet wurde, die Identität von Banksy oder auch Elena Ferrante herauszufinden, könnte man fast meinen, den Leuten wäre gar nicht so sehr an der Trennung von Werk und Autor*in gelegen, wie das in gewissen Situationen gern betont wird. 🤷‍♂️

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Seid ihr auch schon so lang auf Social Media, dass ihr bei Todesmeldungen vom Suhrkamp Verlag immer erst nachschaut, ob das auch wirklich der echte Account ist?

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Brilliant explanation. Watch it.

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Ah ja, langsam wird's ernst mit dem Frühling, die ersten untrüglichen Zeichen lassen sich sehen: Im Park blühen schon die Narzissen und vor der Haustür parkt wieder das Motorrad der Nachbarin.

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OUT NOW: Issue Spring '26 🎊 The latest issue of Tint Journal, the award-winning literary magazine for English as a second language (ESL) writers, is out today! Find all texts online and for free at tintjournal.com 🌐

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You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, printed in a book with a wood block. The book titled Robert Fludd "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617),
Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm

You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, printed in a book with a wood block. The book titled Robert Fludd "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617), Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm

You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians

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Much as I love the Kinks, I had to read the piece about Ramblin Jack Elliott first. 😃

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Avis Waterman: The Woman who Covered the First World War on the Italian Front for "The Times" - Stephanie Seul % % During the First World War, a woman defied the odds and became a foreign and war correspondent for The Times of London, one of the oldest and most prestigious newspapers in the world. %

For the #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote this blogpost commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times, who covered the First World War on the Italian front. I have been researching her story during the last 2 years in various archives.
stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis...

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Und wie viele Denkmäler für #Komponistinnen gibt es in der Welthauptstadt der Musik, in #Wien?
Genau: 0
Wenn es wirklich nur um gute Musik ginge, hätten mindestens Mathilde Kralik, Maria Theresia Paradis & Marianne Martines eines. Was tut man aber? Man stellt wieder (!) das eines Antisemiten auf 🙄

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Deutschbaltische Autorinnen in Bayern: Laura Marholm und Mia Holm im literarischen Porträt Wie Laura Marholm und Mia Holm sich literarische Räume und eigene Stimmen erkämpften.

Schreiben bedeutete für Frauen um 1900 Risiko. Kritik, Unsicherheit, biografische Brüche.
Laura Marholm und Mia Holm gingen diesen Weg trotzdem.

Teil 1 ist jetzt im #MON_Mag online.

#FemaleHeritage #IWD2026 #Weltfrauentag

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CD-Umschau zum Weltfrauentag am 8. März 2026 – Archiv Frau und Musik Wir freuen uns, Fridemann Leipolds CD-Umschau mit den interessantesten Neuerscheinungen zu Komponistinnen zum Weltfrauentag zu präsentieren!

Zum #Weltfrauentag hat sich unser neuer ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter Fridemann Leipold (ehem. BR Klassik) umgeschaut, was es Interessantes zu #Komponistinnen am CD-Markt gibt. Schaut rein und entdeckt tolle Schätze, denn jeder Tag ist 8. März! ✊♀️

www.archiv-frau-musik.de/archives/cd-...

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Bei solchen Statistiken, wo nur die großen Länder drin vorkommen, frag ich mich ja immer, ob Österreich näher an Deutschland oder an Italien ist … 🤔

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Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis

Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis

A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/a...

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#OTD 161 years ago, Elise Richter (1865–1943) was born 🎂 A specialist in Romance linguistics and phonetics, she became Austria’s first woman to obtain a Habilitation (1905) and its first female professor (1921). She died in 1943 in Theresienstadt.

#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

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