Nein Quarterly
His tweets have made the American professor of German Eric Jarosinski into an Internet star.
The Twitter professor. Messages from Eric Jarosinski are savvy little language gems. His inimitable tweets on Twitter have made the American professor a favourite in the social network community. In real life he teaches German at the University of Pennsylvania. His tweets are full of wit and weltschmerz, written sometimes in English, sometimes in German, and often in a mixture of the two. They almost always play with the idiosyncrasies of language, whilst weaving in philosophical observations and social criticism. Jarosinski studied in Frankfurt am Main and is particularly interested in the works of Theodor W. Adorno. A stylized pop-art portrait of Adorno is also the symbol of his Twitter account, the Nein Quarterly. It has now become so popular that it might well turn into Eric Jarosinski’s main occupation. He’ll be leaving the university for a while to work full time on his online project.
