Goethe – Schiller – Shakespeare: Three Weimar Classics

The conference took place from 22 to 25 April 2004 at the “mon ami” cultural center in Weimar. It was sponsored by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften und Gedenkstätten with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Thuringian Ministry of Science, Research and Culture and the German Research Foundation.

Speech on the occasion of the Shakespeare Day:

Dieter Borchmeyer (Heidelberg)

Speakers:

Hendrik Birus (Munich)
Frederick Burwick (Los Angeles)
Péter Dávidházi (Budapest)
Norbert Greiner (Hamburg)
Norbert Kentrup (Bremen)
Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam)
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Amsterdam)
Roger Paulin (Cambridge)

Contributors to the scholarly seminar:

Christoph Ehland (Würzburg)
Balz Engler (Basel)
Heike Grundmann (Heidelberg)
Gesa Horstmann (Berlin)
Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Tübingen)
Enno Ruge (Munich)

Further contributors:

Wolfgang Frühwald (Munich)
Jochen Golz (Weimar)
Sigrid Löffler (Wien)
Stephan Märki (Weimar)
Dagmar Schipanski (Erfurt)
James Stredder (Stratford-upon-Avon)

Reading for the festive event:

Durs Grünbein (Berlin)