Shakespeare and the Reformation In the year of the Reformation anniversary, the annual conference of the German Shakespeare Society from 20 to 23 April 2017 in Weimar will be dedicated to the topic of “Shakespeare and the Reformation”. Hardly any other playwright of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with the role of religion, its…

Shakespeare’s Endings The autumn conference of the German Shakespeare Society will take place on November 25 and 26, 2016, in Weimar. The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, who has shaped literature and culture worldwide to the present day. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, in “Shakespeare und kein Ende”, describes the nearly inexhaustible…

Shakespeare’s Green Worlds The German Shakespeare Society cordially invites you to the 2016 Spring Conference, which will take place from April 22-24 in Bochum. To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, it will be dedicated to the theme of “Shakespeare’s Green Worlds” and will examine the many metaphorical, rhetorical, botanical and poetic manifestations…

Shakespeare’s Heroes and Heroines The German Shakespeare Society cordially invites you to the 2015 Spring Conference, which will take place in Berlin from April 23-26. Under the current theme of “Heroes and Heroines in Shakespeare”, it is once again offering a variety of events, including lectures, discussions, the Shakespeare & School Forum, the Academic Seminar…

War and Commemoration The year of anniversaries continues. Our impressions of the lavish festivities at our major conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the German Shakespeare Society in Weimar have not yet faded, but we are also looking ahead to other days of remembrance this year, in particular the commemoration of the start of…

Celebrating Shakespeare April 23, 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the German Shakespeare Society with Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. To mark this great occasion, we are inviting all members and friends to the Shakespeare anniversary in Weimar from April 24 to 27, 2014. Under the theme “Shakespeare Feiern – Celebrating Shakespeare” (Celebrating Shakespeare),…

Money and Power The German Shakespeare Society, in cooperation with the Cultural Department and the Literaturhaus München, cordially invites you to the 2013 Spring Conference, which will take place in Munich from April 26-28. Under the current theme “Money and Power: Shakespeare’s Balance Sheets”, it will once again offer a wide range of events, including…

The Sonnets Shakespeare’s sonnets, first printed in 1609, have been among the author’s most popular, most read, most annotated and most translated works for two hundred years. Their equally fascinating and irritating combination of raging passions such as love, jealousy and anger with profound reflections on transience and the ability of poetry to wrest moments…

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…