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.
This year’s Shakespeare Academy (more information in the flyer) will take place in the run-up to the conference on April 20 and 21. Using the example of Shakespeare’s late play The Tempest, the student workshop participants will examine how the stage text deals with its own mediality and with the role of magical books, which…
Advance notice Conference for teachers & Shakespeare friends. Brush up your Shakespeare: Identity & Diversity Thu, 8 & Fri, 9 December 2022 at the Burkadushaus Würzburg in cooperation with the German Shakespeare Society, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the Domschule Würzburg Identity and diversity play a major role both in Shakespeare’s time and in our present time.…
will be held online, 10-12 November 2022 see details in the Asian Shakespeare Newsletter
Conference in Leuven, 26-27 June 2023 Further information can be found here.
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…
November 25-26, 2021 Freie Universität Berlin Call for Papers
I would like to draw your attention to the following conference. It will take place in Dresden from June 13 to 16, 2022: The Shakespeare Translations of August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Tieck Circle. Context – History – Edition: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/index.php?id=133304 The translation of all of William Shakespeare’s plays known as “Schlegel/Tieck” – begun in 1797…
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…
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…
In Table Top Shakespeare, ordinary everyday objects become the “performers” of Shakespeare’s dramas, with the kitchen table serving as a stage for betrayal, murder or the immortal love stories: A salt and pepper shaker for the king and queen. A vase for the prince. A matchbox for the servant. A kitchen table as a stage.…