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.
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
Shakespeare Academy Application Flyer 2024
Find the programme here.
“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…
The Shakespeare Seminar will take place during the Shakespeare Days 2024 in Bochum, from 19 to 21 April. Call for Papers.
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…
To 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…