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CFP SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR 2026: SHAKESPEARE AND TRUTH Our seminar will address this issue with a panel of six papers during the annual conference of the German Shakespeare Society, Shakespeare-Tage, which will take place from 24–26 April 2026 in Bochum, Germany. As critical input for the discussion, we invite papers of no more than 15 minutes…
will take place in Hong Kong from 12–14 June 2026. Co-hosted by Hong Kong Baptist University and City University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with the Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival, the conference offers a vibrant platform for scholarly exchange, theatrical inspiration, and cultural discovery. For detailed information about the conference, including guidelines for abstract…
At the opening event of our 2018 spring conference on the topic of ‘’Flight – Migration – Exile,’ Dorothee Elmiger read from her novel “Schlafgänger”. On 13 October 2025, she received the 2025 German Book Prize for her novel “Die Holländerinnen”. We warmly congratulate Dorothee Elmiger on this award.
Shakespeare Jahrbuch 163 (2027) “Shakespeare and Truth”
The 2027 volume of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch will dedicated to the topic “Shakespeare and Truth”.
Please send an electronic version (as a Word/docx-file) of your article to the general editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Prof. Isabel Karremann (email: karremann@es.uzh.ch). The deadline for submissions (in English or German and of not more than 6,000 words) is 30 April 2024. Please observe the style sheet, which can be downloaded here. Articles are selected for publication on the basis of a double-blind peer-review system.
The Martin Lehnert Prize, donated by the former president of the German Shakespeare Society, is intended to honour students or young academics who have made outstanding contributions to the work and impact of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries or the culture of Shakespeare’s time, its reception and/or communication.
The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding final thesis (Magister, Master’s, Staatsexamen), a dissertation or a documented student project (theatre production, exhibition, etc.). The prize money is €2,000 for a dissertation, €500 for a thesis and €500 for a student project. The prize is aimed in particular at the departments of English, German and Theatre Studies.
Nominations can be made for German or English-language papers written or submitted at universities in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Work produced at universities in non-German-speaking countries by young academics from Germany, Austria or Switzerland can generally also be nominated. The academic supervisors of the respective work are authorised to make nominations.
The Martin Lehnert Prize is awarded at the spring conference of the German Shakespeare Society in April.
Proposed works (from the current year or the two previous years) can be submitted to the German Shakespeare Society in two copies and accompanied by an expert opinion by 15 December.
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft e.V., Windischenstraße 4-6, 99423 Weimar,
office@shakespeare-gesellschaft.de
Applications close January 31
The scholarships are aimed at doctoral candidates with an excellent university degree who can demonstrate a conceptual connection between the research project to be realised in Weimar and their dissertation. The newly established graduate scholarships focus on the early modern period in the broader sense, including the Baroque period and the processes of its reception and transformation up to the present day. Interdisciplinary and comparative projects on theatre, Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as on the transmission and reception of the early modern period in Germany and especially in Weimar Classicism are also particularly welcome. Funding is available for ambitious projects for the realisation of which the collections of the Klassik Stiftung are essential.
Julia Jennifer Beine is the first recipient of the Shakespeare Scholarship, April-June 2024.