Shakespeare Academy at the spring conference Bochum 2024
Shakespeare Academy Application Flyer 2024
Conferences of the German Shakespeare Society
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.
Events
Shakespeare Study Day on 10.11.2023 at the Universität Stuttgart
Find the programme here.
Lecture Tiffany Stern “Error and Absurdity in Shakespeare’s First Folio” on 18.10.2023 in Bonn
“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…
Shakespeare Seminar Bochum 2024
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 and Election of the Executive Board
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…
Yearly Conference „Shakespeare’s Libraries“ 21.-23.04.2023 in Weimar
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…
Shakespeare-Academy 20./21.4.2023, Registration by 12.2.
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…
Conference for teachers, lectureres and Shakespeare friends in Würzburg
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.…
Unmasking Shakespeare: The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association”
will be held online, 10-12 November 2022 see details in the Asian Shakespeare Newsletter
The International Translation And Circulation Of Shakespeare Criticism
Conference in Leuven, 26-27 June 2023 Further information can be found here.