Shakespeare Gesellschaft
Award Ceremony of the Shakespeare-Prize to Birgit Minichmayr and Election of the Executive Board of the German Shakespeare Society The Shakespeare Prize of the German Shakespeare Foundation was awarded for the first time in the history of the German Shakespeare Society at a ceremony in the German National Theatre in Weimar. This year, it went…
read moreTo the registration form The first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays appeared in 1623 under the title Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Prior to this, only a few of Shakespeare’s plays had ever been published. Without the ‘First Folio’, much of Shakespeare’s work, including plays such as Macbeth and The Tempest, would…
read moreThis year’s Shakespeare Academy (more information in the flyer) will take place in the run-up to the conference on April 20 and 21. Using the example of Shakespeare’s late play The Tempest, the student workshop participants will examine how the stage text deals with its own mediality and with the role of magical books, which…
read moreAdvance notice Conference for teachers & Shakespeare friends. Brush up your Shakespeare: Identity & Diversity Thu, 8 & Fri, 9 December 2022 at the Burkadushaus Würzburg in cooperation with the German Shakespeare Society, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the Domschule Würzburg Identity and diversity play a major role both in Shakespeare’s time and in our present time.…
read moreConference in Leuven, 26-27 June 2023 Further information can be found here.
read moreNovember 25-26, 2021 Freie Universität Berlin Call for Papers
read moreI would like to draw your attention to the following conference. It will take place in Dresden from June 13 to 16, 2022: The Shakespeare Translations of August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Tieck Circle. Context – History – Edition: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/index.php?id=133304 The translation of all of William Shakespeare’s plays known as “Schlegel/Tieck” – begun in 1797…
read moreAutumn Conference „Romeo and Juliet“, 20-22 November 2020 in Weimar The conference was streamed on YouTube and can be watched via this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg Following the adoption of measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic on October 28, 2020, our conference is now only possible in digital format. All contributions, including those originally declared as face-to-face…
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