Shakespeare Gesellschaft
Our conferences are aimed at all those interested in Shakespeare, especially those from academia, schools and the theatre. The programme includes lectures, theatre performances with national and international guest performances, academic colloquia, events for teachers and students, exhibitions, concerts and film screenings. The languages of communication are German and English.
Every year in April (around the day of Shakespeare’s birth and death), the “Shakespeare Days” are usually held alternately in Bochum and Weimar. In autumn, a “Small Conference” takes place at the other location. In recent years, conferences have also been held in other cities such as Bremen and Berlin.
Between the conferences, the Shakespeare Society in Weimar organises lectures on Shakespeare’s work in the past and present, on German-English literary relations, English literature (with readings) and English theatre today.
CFP SHAKESPEARE-SEMINAR 2025: SHAKESPEARE AND POPULAR CULTURES Our seminar will address this issue with a panel of six papers during the annual conference of the German Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare-Tage, which will take place from 25–27 April 2025 in Weimar, Germany. As critical input for the discussion, we invite papers of no more than 15 minutes…
The theme of this year’s spring conference is Shakespeare and Popular Cultures. The conference will take place from 25-27 April 2025 in Weimar. On the evening before the official opening of the conference, on Thursday 24 April, the Shakespeare Prize will be awarded at 6 pm in the book cube of the Herzog Anna Amalia…
On Thursday, 25 April 2025, the German Shakespeare Prize 2025 was awarded to the British actress Dame Harriet Mary Walter in the book cube of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar Walter, who has won numerous awards and been nominated for Tony and Emmy Awards, has achieved worldwide fame through her theatre career, particularly…
The German Shakespeare Society regularly provides impulses to awaken students’ interest in Shakespeare research. As a rule, a Shakespeare study day sponsored by the German Shakespeare Society is held at a university once a year. The next study day is planned for 16 November 2024 at the University of Siegen. Find the programme here.
Our conference will be dedicated to Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida or, to quote Michael Dobson’s lecture title, “the most performed unperformed play in world drama”. Addressed to an “eternal reader”, placed in the Folio Edition between tragedies and histories, often described as a problem play or “bitter war comedy” – Troilus and Cressida is a…
The German Shakespeare Society regularly provides impulses to awaken students’ interest in Shakespeare research. As a rule, a Shakespeare study day sponsored by the German Shakespeare Society is held at a university once a year. This year, such a study day is planned at the University of Bamberg. Find the programme here.
After a long interruption, the German Shakespeare Society is once again able to offer its members the opportunity to attend a week of theater in Stratford with four performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). The course is scheduled for the period from Tuesday, July 30, to Friday, August 2, 2024. Further information
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…
Idolatry 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…
Shakespeare and Time: the retrieved pasts, the envisaged futures 9-12 July 2025 Univ. Porto Call for Proposals