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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saturday is a bank holiday in Berlin so I guess stock up on food on Friday and then come and see us all reading at the Grüner Salon. That’s my plan anyway. I’ll read a world exclusive from my unedited translation of Clemens Meyer’s The Projectionists, at 3:30.

Fitzcarraldo x DAAD, it says, and then it tells you we’ll be in the Grüner Salon from 3 to 10 on Saturday. We being Ed Atkins, Chris Shields, Kirsty Bell, me, Vincenzo Latronico, Vanessa Onweumezi, Maria Stepanova and Saskia Vogel. There’s also readings from Alexievich, Melchor, Tokarczuk, Gombriwicz and others, done by Hanne Lippard and Tanasgol Sabbagh.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are online questionnaires more convenient for the recipients? Because they’re incredibly inconvenient for me.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost-of-living issues that drove Die Linke’s victory.' jacobin.com/2026/09/die-...

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German Centrists Are Smearing Die Linke as Antisemites

Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost...

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On the super-local level, I’m glad my local council in Berlin-Mitte will probably be Linke/Green now. But concerned that Beatr*x from the #NoAfD will be on it too, along with 4 others. She’s already an MP, can’t quite get my head round what it will mean in practice. www.rbb24.de/politik/berl...

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Wahlen zur BVV Mitte

BVV-Wahl 2026 in Berlin-Mitte: Hier finden Sie nach Auszählung alle Wahlergebnisse für den Bezirk.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fühle nur ich mich unwohl damit, dass diese Veranstaltungsreihe direkt vor der Berlin-Wahl von Vonovia gesponsert wird? penberlin.de/mitwirkende-...

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

19.00 FILM: BROGUE ONE
Shoe-focussed Star Wars prequel.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/09/2026

#OtD 9 Sep 1934 over 100k Londoners flooded Hyde Park to protest a rally by fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Mostly was drowned out by the anti-fascist locals, who then chased the police-protected Nazis out of the park. More about the fight in the 40s: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This but constantly seeking feasible alternative English translations for liegen/legen, sitzen/setzen, stehen/stellen.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Update on the ska’n’b band project: we found women on sax and trombone and I am allowed to be the manager. I am taking way too many snacks to the first rehearsal.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The AfD’s victory was principally a mobilisation surge. The extraordinary increase in turnout - from 60.3% to around 76.5% was overwhelmingly advantageous to the AfD. People who had withdrawn from politics did not return to defend the centre; they returned to punish it

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The demographic which voted the least for the AfD was socialized entirely in the GDR, the highest share at 53% (35-44) were children or infants when the wall came down and 42% of those born in the 21st century voted for them.

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Christina Clemm @clemm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

45 Prozent haben für Rassismus, Frauenhass, Queerfeindlichkeit, Behindertenfeindlichkeit, Menschenverachtung gestimmt. Das muss uns entsetzen.

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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Die AfD hat in Sachsen-Anhalt auch über Queerfeindlichkeit mobilisiert. Das Versprechen, für jede Regenbogenflagge nach der Wahl zehn Deutschland-Flaggen zu hissen, ist ein eigener Punkt im 100-Tage-Programm – den Siegmund dauernd wiederholt.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We had a very detailed conversation about dashes in 19th-C German prose and contemporary writing at our translation lab tonight, and reached no conclusions. Also: whether to excise racism in historical texts during translation. All part of the delight of hanging with translators.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My last shout for V&Q Books, the anthology I always wanted to exist. Out today in UK, Ireland, DACH.

It’s a pink and black paperback, BERLIN BABEL, featuring Berlin’s TV tower from below, in front of a fridge full of drinks. There’s a sign written in Cyrillic letters. I don’t know what language it is but I know it means: Choose first, then open.

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Nita Tyndall @nitatyndall.com · 31/08/2026

Interviewed @katyderbyshire.bsky.social over on Substack to talk about #WomeninTranslation month and her translating practice! nitatyndall.substack.com/p/interview-...

nitatyndall.substack.com

interview with Katy Derbyshire, translator and writer

for the end of Women in Translation month!

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ok now I’m ready to send out my story by post. Message me your address if you want one. I bought fun stamps (not pictured). It’s a sweet love story set in the 90s.

My little short story zine, with scissors and glue. The cover shows a groovy laughing hetero couple from the 60s.

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Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Translator: Context please ffs. [Receives context.] Two sentences earlier this person seems to be pouring water into headgear, might there be a typo?

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I finished writing a story today and I put a cover version of this song in it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPwu...

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THE UGLY DUCKLINGS - NOTHIN' - 1966 - ORGINAL MIX

YouTube video by Dave Bingham

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Autumn Warhammer Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your reminder that the English Beat icon "Beat Girl" is a transgender woman named Brigitte Bond from a photo of her dancing with ska musician Prince Buster at Heathrow in 1964 and none of us will be as cool as she was.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Re: last thread: I’m curious about Svenja Leiber’s novel NELKA, about Polish forced labourers in Nazi Germany and Germans taking credit for their work.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about forced labour in Nazi Germany and how people looked away. Half a million people had to perform slave labour in Berlin alone. This map shows how impossible it must have been to overlook. The sheer density in workplaces. www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/recherche/la...

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NS-Zwangsarbeit: Lagerdatenbank

Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The problem now is, if we go back in time our phones won’t work but we won’t have an almanac in our knapsack to predict the forthcoming eclipse and get ourselves out of trouble. Like, I’ve never even seen an almanac in real life because I have a smartphone.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If I go to a line dance class in Weissensee, will you all come with me?

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The longlist for the German Book Prize #dbp26 looks very interesting. A wide range in its 18 titles, a couple of debut novels, couple of established old men, lots of German history as per usual, but several more international perspectives. www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/en/nominated...

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Nominated

Mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis zeichnet die Stiftung Buchkultur und Leseförderung des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels jährlich zum Auftakt der Frankfurter Buchmesse den deutschsprachigen "Roman d...

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh, the sweet relief of admitting I’m not the right reader for a book I said I’d write a report on. Freeing myself to read something I *might* appreciate!

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I wanted to do more things amateurishly this year, in a good way. So I wrote this short story, which will be published in 3:AM next month. And now I’ve made it into a little zine to send out by post. Should I wait until after the online publication?

My first short-story-in-a-zine! It has a groovy young heterosexual couple on the cover and it’s called “Quelque Chose de Tennessee”. You can also see my scissors and glue stick and the ink cartridge packaging (I used a lot of ink!).

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I unabashedly 🧡 Berlin-Mitte. Yesterday I strolled down the road behind Sven Marquardt, today I fangirled Elif Eralp. My life of political glamour is complete.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Make mine an alcohol-free Martini Vibrante and Oleada Fizzy-Blanc spritz…

Two glasses on a table, one containing red wine, the other containing home made non-alcoholic Aperol spritz, baby, with ice and a widget of orange!

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Bummer. I’m off alcohol for three months, including my big anthology launch and the Frankfurt Book Fair. I will think of wholesome ways to celebrate things, but first I’m having a brief sulk.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When Bridget Phillipson said her transphobic EHRC “guidance” is to “protect (cis)women”, she was lying translucent.org.uk/four-years-s...

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Four Years, Seven Surveys, Four Complaints: What Our FOI Data Actually Shows

Four Years, Seven Surveys, Four Complaints: What our FOI data actually shows about trans women using single sex spaces.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My sweet lovely son just checked in to say he wasn’t one of the people killed or injured at Berlin’s Pride. What a hideous feeling, that your loved ones or your community might be a target of violent hatred. Sending love to everyone scared for friends and family out there.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I went to the Perlentaucher website and remembered pretty quickly why I dislike it. It seems like many of the non-summary articles are grumpy dudes putting words into the mouths of people on the left, accusing Sally Rooney of supporting H*mas, etc.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Apparently they picked my least favourite Berlin CDU dude as new mayoral candidate. Don’t fancy his chances much.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Very interesting and helpful on how one press has dealt with non-human submissions

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our feminist mum banned us from listening to “Holding out for a Hero” because the lyrics were such bad advice for girls. I didn’t like to mention it before in case Bonnie Tyler read it.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I thought I was being clever, asking a male colleague how much he’d charge a particular publisher (probably more than a woman). He didn’t respond.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Für eine Studie* haben wir gefragt, ob man "wenn nötig große Immobilienkonzerne enteignen sollte, um gegen steigende Mieten vorzugehen". Deutschlandweit stimmte dem die Mehrheit zu (55%). Vergesellschaftung zu verbieten ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht der Bevölkerung, nicht nur der Berliner:innen.

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They should call it the nominative determinism prize

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Given the (strongly denied) story on Springer head Döpfner pressuring Merz to cooperate with the AfD, it would be good to keep an eye on the Telegraph’s approach to Reform.

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