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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…
We are pleased to bring you a video greeting from Stratford-upon-Avon, in which Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells present their new book “All the Sonnets of Shakespeare” to the members of the German Shakespeare Society. You can find it on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1Afp2gwz4Jo4FmLg24LAg
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…
The German Shakespeare Society mourns the loss of the English scholar Prof. em. Dr. Wilhelm Hortmann. He taught English literature at the universities of Frankfurt, Duisburg and Santa Barbara. After his retirement, Prof. Hortmann worked as a theater historian and author. He preferred to deal with the intersection of culture and politics, with a particular…