In November, the Institut für deutsche Philologie at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg celebrated its 150th anniversary in befittingly dignified and colourful manner with a festive ceremony and an open house. The happy occasion kept the SPP 2130 office in suspense because Annkathrin Koppers took charge of the organization, but also because the Würzburg-based participants made an SPP offer of their own. On 11 November, the SPP 2130 office not only opened its doors to all attending the festivities, but also provided four guided tours of the digital exhibition Translation Is Power, each with a different personally chosen emphasis.

There is also cause for celebration in the direct SPP context: the preparations for our joint SPP 2130 project of the second funding phase—the compendium Translating in the Early Modern Period (Metzler/Springer)—have taken a decisive step forward. The structure has been established, all articles have been assigned, and our editing platform Meteor is ready and waiting. All compendium authors are invited to view the schedule and manuscript guidelines there and, in due course, upload their texts. The publication will appear as a live compendium—once a given article is finished, it will be made accessible and quotable online even before the full publication goes to press (print and open access).