Faith and Doubt Questions of faith shape our world. Anyone who would like to believe that we live in secular times in which religion is a private matter must now experience in many ways how political conflicts and debates revolve around religious affiliation and the affiliation of certain religions to our society. This return of…

Shakespeare’s Shipwrecks: Theatres of Maritime Adventure The 2011 spring conference of the German Shakespeare Society, organised in association with the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), will take place 28 April – 1 May 2011 in Weimar (Germany).   Shakespearean theatre and drama show a world of maritime experience. Born from an early modern culture of…

King Lear The autumn conference of the German Shakespeare Society took place on November 27 and 28, 2009 in Cologne.   Speakers: Jayne Archer/ Richard Turley (Aberystwyth) Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania) Ewan Fernie (London) Beate Neumeier (Köln) H.-J. Hermes/ Marcel Hartwig (Chemnitz) Björn Quiring (München) Workshop: Frank Rohde (Schauspiel Köln)      …

Shakespeare: The Dawn of Modernity Die Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft fand vom 23. bis 26. April 2009 in Weimar statt.     Speech on occasion of the Shakespeare-Days Jonathan Bate, Warwick Speakers Jan Bürger, Marbach Therese Fischer-Seidel, Düsseldorf Peter Holbrook, Queensland Werner von Koppenfels, München Peter Marx, Mainz/Bern Claudia Olk, Berlin Richard Wilson, Cardiff Contributors…

Hamlet The autumn conference 2008 of the German Shakespeare Society took place on November 21 and 22 in Mainz.   Speakers: Catherine Belsey, Cardiff Stefanie Diekmann, Potsdam Hugh Grady, Philadelphia Friedemann Kreuder, Mainz Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv Laurenz Volkmann, Jena Günter Walch, Berlin Cooperation partners: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Staatstheater Mainz Stiftung Mainzer…

Shakespeare’s Food: Stage and Banquet In cooperation with the University of Vienna, the Burgtheater Vienna, the Wiener Vorlesungen, the Kulturmagistrat der Stadt Wien and Art for Art, Theaterservice GmbH Vienna.     This year’s Shakespeare-Days took place from April 24-27, 2008 in Vienna.   Speech on the occasion of the Shakespeare Day Daniel Kehlmann (Vienna)…

Othello The conference took place on November 23 and 24, 2007 in the Youth- and Culture Centre MonAmi in Weimar. Speakers: Tom Cornford (London) Balz Engler (Basel) Michael Neill (Auckland) Lena Orlin (Baltimore)   Programme   Programme Autumn 2007(537 K)    

Soundscape Shakespeare The Shakespeare-Days 2007 took place from April 20-22, 2007 in Bochum.   Speech on the occasion of the Shakespeare-Days Bruce Smith (University of Southern California) Speakers John Joughin (University of Central Lancashire) Doris Kolesch (FU Berlin) James Siemon (Boston University) Contributors Scholarly Seminar Philipp Hinz Judith Luig Carolin Roder Felix Sprang Katrin Trüstedt…