Shakespeare Stiftung
The President of the German Shakespeare Society, Prof. Claudia Olk, was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In addition, Prof. Olk was awarded the Werner Heisenberg Medal by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on March 23. The award was made “in recognition of her special services in the promotion of…
read moreTo 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…
read moreThis 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…
read moreThe German Shakespeare Society has lost a great personality in Prof. Dr. Werner Habicht. He was President of the German Shakespeare Society West (1976-87) and editor of the Shakespeare Yearbook from 1980 to 1995. The German Shakespeare Society remembers his work with sincere gratitude. On behalf of all members and the entire Board of Directors…
read moreAdvance 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.…
read moreThe German Shakespeare Society has sent a letter of condolence to the British royal family to express its sympathy on the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
read moreThe German Shakespeare Society has lost a great personality in Prof. Dr Ulrich Suerbaum. In 1963, he was the first full professor to be appointed to the Chair of English Philology at the Ruhr University Bochum, a position he held until his retirement. He had a lasting influence on the fortunes of the German Shakespeare…
read moreThe 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…
read moreWe 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
read moreTo 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…
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