Condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II
The German Shakespeare Society has sent a letter of condolence to the British royal family to express its sympathy on the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
read moreProf. Dr. phil. Ulrich Suerbaum (02.11.1926 – 18.5.2022)
The German Shakespeare Society has lost a great personality in Prof. Dr Ulrich Suerbaum. In 1963, he was the first full professor to be appointed to the Chair of English Philology at the Ruhr University Bochum, a position he held until his retirement. He had a lasting influence on the fortunes of the German Shakespeare…
read more“Wieland meets Shakespeare” – Lecture Series in Weimar on 16.6., 30.6. and 14.7.
The lectures were recorded and can be accessed via the YouTube-channel of the German Shakespeare Society: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg Programme 16.6.22 Christa Schuenke: Wieland’s Shakespeare – a case of eloquent silence Why did Wieland omit so much from his Shakespeare? A few thoughts on the presence of the translator in the absent. Christa Schuenke lives in Berlin…
read more“All the Sonnets of Shakespeare” Eds. Paul Edmondson / Stanley Wells
We are pleased to bring you a video greeting from Stratford-upon-Avon, in which Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells present their new book “All the Sonnets of Shakespeare” to the members of the German Shakespeare Society. You can find it on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg
read moreShakespeare’s Birthday on 23 April
To mark Shakespeare’s birthday on April 23, a recitation from the Weimar Shakespeare Monument will be broadcast on the YouTube channel from 4 pm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg Here you will find the speech by Frank Günther (1947 – 2020), one of the greatest Shakespeare translators of our time, on the occasion of the morning walk to the…
read moreAutumn conference online
Autumn 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…
read moreDarum Shakespeare!
Countless writers have come and gone. William Shakespeare has stayed. What has made his works so fascinating for centuries? Article of the President of the German Shakespeare Society, Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk. published in Weltwoche Nr. 43.20 to the article
read moreCurrent Shakespeare-Contributions
Blog post by the President summarising a talk she gave at the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford in January: https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/beyond-too-much-shakespearean-excesses-in-the-18th-century Entry in the London Review of Books by Michael Dobson (Stratford): https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n13/michael-dobson/bastard-foreigners … Shakespeare for the ears (Podcast with Stefan Schneckenburger) https://www.hr2.de/podcasts/doppelkopf/der-direktor-stefan-schneckenburger-spricht-ueber-die-zahlreichen-pflanzen-im-werk-william-shakespeares,podcast-episode-71698.html
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