Peter @peterthebricky.bsky.social semi retired bricklayer
Ostmoderne @ostmoderne.bsky.social Documenting the concrete, mosaics, and murals of the GDR. An archive of East German Kunst am Bau & socialist modernism.
📷 Original photography unless otherwise indicated.
Alt account @digitalcosmonaut.com
Korinna Hollander @korinnahollander.bsky.social Gesellschaft,soziale Strukturen,Politik,
Klimawandel,
Design,Kunst,
DDR-Diktatur
Zeitzeugin
ich lerne von euch
Andrew Weber @noplot.bsky.social Mostly harmless random stupid stuff (citation: my wife). Confusing relatives, coworkers, spouse, and cat for decades. Probably at the movies as you read this. He/him.
Anna Foden @annafoden.bsky.social Writer of short plays and one seemingly endless biography. Love libraries, archives and generally looking stuff up.
Charlotte Luckhurst @charlotteluckhurst.bsky.social Lecturer and SEM at OU.
Active travel, slow travel and outdoors enthusiast. Usually found on 🚲🏃♀️🚶♀️🚅 🚂🚆
Ralph Hänel @kungfucoach.bsky.social learning and teaching Wing Tsun Kung Fu since 1984. Changing lives, one punch at a time.
German-born self-defense expert. #daswingtsun
The cold war storyteller. #berlinwallshadows
Author, publisher, actor.
General Matheus in QUANTUM SHOCK movies.
Dr Anna McEwan @annamcewan.bsky.social Historian of the GDR, state socialist women's organisations & post-socialist women's activism
@LeverhulmeTrust postdoc at @zzfpotsdam & @UofGGenderHist
she/her
rls_history @rlshistory.bsky.social Zeitgeschichte, Erinnerungspolitik, Kommunismusforschung, Jahrestage. Informationen aus der vielfältigen Arbeit der @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social zu historischen Themen. #GeradeJetzt
Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social Das #IfZ erforscht die deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen.
https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/
Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social Twentieth Century Communism is a journal of communist history and theory from across the globe. Posts about radical history, and its writing and research. Published by Lawrence & Wishart.
Berlin Center for Cold War Studies @berlincoldwar.bsky.social Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg | Berlin Center for Cold War Studies
am Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin | Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
https://www.berlinerkolleg.com
Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur @baufarbeitung.bsky.social Aktuelles und Hintergründiges zu unserer Arbeit.
Berliner Beauftragter zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur @baberlin.bsky.social Beraten. Fördern. Aufklären. Der Berliner Beauftragte zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (BAB). Hier schreibt die Pressestelle.
Alexander Walther @alexwalther.bsky.social Historiker | Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz (smac) | https://tacheles.sachsen.de Jahr der jüdischen Kultur in Sachsen 2026 | Diss zur Erinnerung an die Shoah in der DDR | NS, DDR, jüd. Geschichte, (Post)Jugoslawien | Grün🌻
Aufarbeitungskommission @aufarbeitung.bsky.social Die Unabhängige Kommission des Bundes untersucht Ausmaß, Art und Folgen der sexuellen Gewalt gegen Kinder und Jugendliche in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der DDR.
www.aufarbeitungskommission.de
Dr Michael Heinz @michaheinz.bsky.social Historian, DDR, Agriculture, MfS - private opinions
Stefanie Brünenberg @sbruenenberg.bsky.social Architekturhistorikerin - Stadtbaukunst, Architektur der DDR, baukulturelle Transformationsgeschichte
>Folgen der Treuhandtätigkeiten für das bauliche Erbe der DDR<
Jonathan Kaplan @jonkap.bsky.social Modern History | German-Jewish relations | GDR history | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow University of Verona | Formerly: University of Haifa, Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam, Freie Universität Berlin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Xavier Ramos Diez-Astrain @javihaller.bsky.social Dr. en Historia (comunismo, RDA, Europa Oriental, historia transnacional) // PhD History (Communism, GDR, Eastern Europe, Transnational History). Extraacadémico
Stefanie Eisenhuth @stefanie-eisenhuth.bsky.social Historian (ZZF Potsdam, Greifswald University)📍Berlin | interested in the History of Communism, the Cold War, all things GDR and Ukraine.
Standing with 🇺🇦
Adrian Lehne @adrianlehne.bsky.social Historian | History Education | History of HIV/AIDS and Sexualities in the FGR and GDR | at FU Berlin
Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social Visiting Prof EconHist at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Phd @ FU Berlin | First gen | HPE of Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and GDR. Revolutions, deportations and indoctrination…. the fun stuff. Spatial, network theory, micro data, machine learning, AI
Max Vogel @maxvogel.bsky.social Historian | Museums & Memorials | Political Education | NS, GDR and Colonial History | Berlin
Working for brandenburg-euthanasie-sbg.de
Current Project: paul-goesch.de
Private views only.
Franck Schmidt @franckschmidt.bsky.social docteur en histoire | enseignant
Thèmes: RDA, marxisme, guerre froide, circulations Est-Ouest
ostdeutschland.info @ostdeutschland.info ostdeutschland.info gibt Orientierung zum Thema Ostdeutschland. Wir klären darüber auf, wer und was als ostdeutsch gilt sowie, wer in und wer für Ostdeutschland ist.
https://ostdeutschland.info/impressum/
Axel-Wolfgang Kahl @awkahl.bsky.social Promoviert an der Universität Potsdam zur "Transformation der ostdeutschen Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften in den 1980/90er Jahren". Arbeitet im Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt Brandenburg.
Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of German, University of Leeds. Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Chair/Trustee: Word Up North, Skipton Music. #bwfc
Sophie Lange @sophielange.bsky.social Historikerin @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social Umwelt | Kalter Krieg | Diplomatie
Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds; queer and Holocaust studies; she/her
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29 | all views my own
Elwin Hofman @elwinhofman.bsky.social Historian | Crime, emotions, sexuality & self 18-20C | Assistant Professor & MSCA fellow Cultural History Utrecht University | Latest books: The Business of Pleasure | Trials of the Self
@georgebodie.bsky.social @georgebodie.bsky.social Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Historian of Internationalism, Germany, Socialism, and the Cold War.
lena wagner @lenawagner.bsky.social historian (in the making @unibielefeld): memorials in divided germany, the radical right, memory activism
feminist || she/her
based in cologne
Hannah Melià @hannahmelia.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Catalanist/Hispanist. Linguist. Historian. Literature lover. Al pot petit hi ha la bona confitura 🍯❤️
Dr Dawn Llewellyn @dawnllewellyn.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion and Gender, University of Chester, UK.
Little Miss Heike and His Lordship Dino @heikeanddino.bsky.social Mother of His Lordship, Former Watercolourist, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
Learning to life with chronic illness.
Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
Katya Krylova @katyakrylova.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Linguist. Austrianist. Literature, film & visual culture scholar. Views my own.
Storyhouse @storyhouselive.bsky.social 🎭 theatre
📽 cinema
📚 library
🍷 kitchen
✨ creative + community space
🌞 plus open-air festivals
🏠 open 8am-11pm daily
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social Learner, Stargazer, Godless Tea-sipper, Cat-owned Ginger, Soul whose intentions are good.
*soul not included
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Tim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social Historian of Central Europe & the First World War, based in the north west of England
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. The UK's largest university library collection on Russia and Central, Eastern & South-Eastern Europe.
Respect My Existence or Expect My Resistance @mamamidwifephoenix.bsky.social Ni Dieu Ni Maître 🐦⬛
Lawyer, midwife, fighter for reproductive justice, LGBTQ rights, equity, and believer that BLM. 🐉
Hopeful that we can still save the planet. 🌎
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social Say - No To Racism 📣
❤️ Opposing hate, inequality, and discrimination
❤️ Justice, dignity, and equality for all
❤️ Be Kind
❤️ Stronger Together
❤️ Anti-War
❤️ F*uk ICE
❤️ F*uk Trump
🚫fascists🚫bigots🚫racists🚫evil🚫maga
Paul Räuber @paulraeuber.bsky.social Ist Historiker irgendwo im Dreieck von Bildung, Forschung und Erinnerung an rechte Gewalt in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Ostdeutschland.
Christian Rau @christianrau.bsky.social Historian @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
| East German & Eastern European History | History of Democracy | Protest History | Urban History| Gender History |
Und sonst so: Betriebsrat a.D., Demokrat, Schallplatten-Nerd
Hier ganz privat
Anna Saunders @profannasaunders.bsky.social Professor of German, University of Liverpool. Memory and memorialisation, eastern Germany, promoting languages.
Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social Historian, Bibliophile, Nature Lover, Keen Home Cook. Interested in Central/East Europe, Communism, Crime and Incarceration/Forced Labour.
Jean Conacher @jeanconacher.bsky.social Recently retired. Now combining research in languages education policy & practice and GDR/post-unification Eastern German literature & film with equally fun stuff.
Sam Mitschke @sammitschke.bsky.social Holocaust theatre historian, educator, humanitarian, T1D, writer. Current ESO at Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF UK).
Teaching about the past while trying to make things a bit better in the present! 🙂
Paul Mitchell @pamitch78.bsky.social Englishman - love football, music, TV & film. Hates dickheads and racists
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@ivanat23.bsky.social @ivanat23.bsky.social
@pauldyett.bsky.social @pauldyett.bsky.social may contain traces of cycling, cricket, football, music, history. Trying to give up politics for the duration.
Tino Maier @tino2003maier.bsky.social I will try bluesky 😁
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
The background picture is part of a painting I am lucky to own called 'The Isles of Sinodun' by the talented artist @annadillon.bsky.social.
LazyCuttlefish @lazycuttlefish.bsky.social I'd still rather be diving.
Jack Poland @jackpoland.bsky.social
Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current book project: Palestinians and the New Left in West Germany, 1950s-1980s
Pamela Barnes @pjaybarnes.bsky.social
Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social Professor of German & Theatre at the University of Edinburgh. Brecht, GDR culture, censorship, ghost stations.
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social Das ZZF erforscht die Zeitgeschichte und ihre Bezüge zur Gegenwart.
Website: https://zzf-potsdam.de/
Impressum: https://zzf-potsdam.de/impressum
Pierre Novellie @pierrenovellie.bsky.social Stand up, co-host of BudPod w/ Glenn Moore, BUTTON BOYS w/ Glenn and Sarah Keyworth, read my comedian’s guide to autism book, listen to my Radio 4 show
Michael Wagg @michaelwagg.bsky.social writer, actor.
books: The Turning Season, Edgar & Adolf, Berlin. ducksong.wordpress.com
British-German Association (BGA) @britgerassoc.bsky.social Founded in 1952, the BGA is the civil-society hub for British-German relations in the UK.
Sara Pugach @carnelianlives.bsky.social Professor of African and European History @calstatela. Author of African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975, and Africa in Translation, both @uofmpress. Working on too many new projects. Love Wings of Fire, My Hero Academia, etc., courtesy of my kids
H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social H-Soz-Kult ist eine moderierte Informations- und Kommunikationsplattform für Historikerinnen und Historiker und veröffentlicht fachwissenschaftliche Nachrichten und Publikationen im Internet.
Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
Eli Rubin @erubin.bsky.social Historian @ Western Michigan University. GDR, WWII, material culture, consumption, design, Plattenbau, destruction, urban space. Chicago and sort of Michigan sports fanatic. Father of five!!!
Robbie Aitken @rjmauk.bsky.social Professor of Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam. Working on the Black experience during the Nazi period. Long suffering follower of terrible sports teams.
shu.academia.edu/RobbieAitken
Orel Beilinson @orelb.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe in its Eurasian context. Education, youth, social structure, and family life. Comparative and transnational history. PhD, Yale; currently a postdoc fellow at the Polonsky Academy.
David Zell @deezed.bsky.social Post-Doc Research Fellow @Bham.ac.uk
East German history
Lefty centrist & anti-populist.
Passionate EU rejoiner #FBPE
Life-writing newbie.
(Grand)-dad jokes - QPR
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Samuel Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈 • opinions my own
German Studies Association @thegsa.bsky.social The German Studies Association is the multi- and interdisciplinary association of scholars in German, Austrian, and Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, and economics.
Jane Freeland @jecfree.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL, feminist, researching reproductive justice in German history, previously Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism (2022), she/her
Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social Historian of modern Germany, Europe, and the environment | author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain (OUP, 2019) + Zonenrandgebiet (Ch. Links, 2022) | Atlanta, Moabit | I wish I were in Greifswald
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, Africa, genocide, postcolonial memory; Prof Global History
Founding president INoGS. Personal views
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Franziska Kuschel @franziskakuschel.bsky.social Historikerin. Arbeitet @Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, Berlin. Hier privat.
Mike @ksmikey.eurosky.social Cycling, Lotto CT, UK juniors & U23 & Rayner Fdn & Pedal Potential, caravans, #Breizh (Aodoù an Arvor) & #poetry. Failing to avoid politics. Suffering Kingstonian FC & Dewsbury RL fan: post not all in English #NonLeague pack https://go.bsky.app/5ZmrY8K
Iain MacGregor @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social Pub Director NF, @HoZ_Books | FRHistS | Author | Rep: @APowerAgent & @pastpreservers | Words: Guardian, Spectator, BBC History, The Critic, The Washing Post | Views my own
Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social professor at the University of Texas at Austin, maphead, dog lover, Go Bills, slow marathon runner, opinions mine
PB @scousepb.bsky.social Don't be a meff.
Rebecca Collins @beckcollins.bsky.social Geographer | Young adult futures | Critical Sustainability | Maker | Mender | Muller
Chair, RGS Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group
Stephen G Brown @stephengbr.bsky.social
Liam MacLean @liammaclean.bsky.social Historian of the Modern German Left, 1990s Betriebsräte, DH, and VR
Dr Victoria Dawson @vsdawson.bsky.social Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical materialist feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße Dresden @gbs-dresden.bsky.social Ehemalige Bezirksverwaltung der Staatssicherheit | Politische Haftanstalt | Ort der Friedlichen Revolution
German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social Come and study German at the TEF Gold-rated University of Portsmouth on England's beautiful South Coast! https://www.port.ac.uk/study/subject-area/languages
iamkosmonaut @digitalcosmonaut.com DE/EN
Urban Explorer and History Lover. I document abandoned military instalations and other lost places + East German Art and Architecture.
🌐 https://digitalcosmonaut.com/
Check out our alt account: @ostmoderne.bsky.social
Clark Gillies 🏴🇺🇦 @wanderer1982.bsky.social Scotland, Aberdeen and AFC Wimbledon football fan.
Secretary of Scotland fans charity Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal.
Dabbled in a bit of football writing, and general media whore.
https://linktr.ee/clarkgillies
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
HistoryExtra @historyextra.bsky.social Posts from HistoryExtra, Britain’s bestselling history magazine and award-winning podcast.
www.historyextra.com
Marcus Böick @marcboc83.bsky.social Historian of Modern Germany & Europe |
King's College, University of Cambridge |
#postsocialism #security #organization |
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