Shakespeare Gesellschaft
The German Shakespeare Society mourns the death of Norbert Kentrup (May 02, 1949 – December 08, 2023). The actor, director, author and theater founder (bremer shakespeare company and Shakespeare und Partner) was a member of the board from 2002-2006. With his own contributions, including on Shakespeare translations (with Maik Hamburger) or in Shakespeare workshops for…
read moreIdolatry or appropriation? Two cases of German Shakespeare reception Lecture by Prof. Dr. Norbert Greiner (Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Shakespeare Foundation) in cooperation with the Duchess Anna Amalia Library When Grand Duchess Sophie founded the “Association of Friends of Shakespeare” on the occasion of her 40th birthday, she laid the…
read moreShakespeare and Time: the retrieved pasts, the envisaged futures 9-12 July 2025 Univ. Porto Call for Proposals
read moreShakespeare Academy Application Flyer 2024
read more. In Shakespeare’s “Green Worlds” through the years with the “Florilegium Shakespeareanum” It’s ready: the “perpetual calendar” with a “plant selection” with one leaf for each week. The term “florilegium” – “flower harvest” – is not quite accurate, because in addition to numerous flowers, there are also twisted trees, fruits, the spongy pith of rushes,couch…
read more“Error and Absurdity in Shakespeare’s First Folio” Shakespeare’s First Folio is so important that it is often thought to be good: John PayneCollier called it a “credit to the age, even as a specimen of typography”. But the First Folio has some notable blunders, from its poorly spaced preliminary matter onwards. My lecture will investigate…
read moreThe Shakespeare Seminar will take place during the Shakespeare Days 2024 in Bochum, from 19 to 21 April. Call for Papers.
read moreThe President of the German Shakespeare Society, Prof. Claudia Olk, was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In addition, Prof. Olk was awarded the Werner Heisenberg Medal by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on March 23. The award was made “in recognition of her special services in the promotion of…
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…
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