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The German Shakespeare Foundation was established in 2000 in Weimar. Its founding body was the reunified German Shakespeare Society (Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft e.V.). This society was originally founded in 1864 at the initiative of the Dessau entrepreneur Wilhelm Ochelhäuser under the patronage of Grand Duchess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, making it the oldest and one of the largest literary societies in Germany. For nearly 150 years, it has promoted engagement with the works of William Shakespeare throughout the German-speaking world, working closely with universities, schools, and theatres.

The German Shakespeare Foundation supports the work of the German Shakespeare Society by providing funding for its larger projects. For example, it annually awards the Martin Lehnert Prize for outstanding theses by students and doctoral candidates, made possible through a bequest from the Berlin-based Anglicist Martin Lehnert.

The foundation supports the Shakespeare Yearbook, which the Shakespeare Society has published almost continuously every year since its founding, making it an outstanding cultural-historical record of Shakespeare reception and scholarship over the past 150 years. Since 2022, it has also honoured individuals from the fields of art and culture with the Shakespeare Prize, recognising those who have made exceptional contributions to the work of William Shakespeare and its dissemination.

To provide the many visitors to the annual Shakespeare Days with special highlights in the form of theatrical, musical, literary, or cinematic events, the German Shakespeare Foundation also subsidises these gatherings of German-speaking Shakespeare enthusiasts.

SHJB 148 (2012) Seefahrt, Schiffbruch, maritime Abenteuer
27. May 2012 no comments in Yearbooks

Seefahrt, Schiffbruch und Maritime Abenteuer Schiffbruch und die Bedrohung durch Piraten sind konstante Erfahrungen auf den Handels- und Entdeckungsfahrten der Frühen Neuzeit. Wird die Seefahrt spätestens mit dem europäischen Expansionsstreben seit dem fünfzehnten Jahrhundert zu einer wirkmächtigen Metapher für das menschliche Leben, initiiert sie auch eine vielschichtige Textproduktion in unterschiedlichsten Gattungen – vom Navigationshandbuch über…

Spring Conference 2012, Bochum
16. April 2012 no comments in Past Conferences

Faith and Doubt Questions of faith shape our world. Anyone who would like to believe that we live in secular times in which religion is a private matter must now experience in many ways how political conflicts and debates revolve around religious affiliation and the affiliation of certain religions to our society. This return of…

SHJB 147 (2011) Stadt
27. May 2011 no comments in Yearbooks

SHAKESPEARE UND DIE STADT “Thou hast all things in thee to make thee fairest, and all things in thee to make thee foulest” – so sah Thomas Dekker das London um 1600, als eine faszinierend dynamische, aber zutiefst widersprüchliche Metropole. Die Beiträger und Beiträgerinnen der hier versammelten Aufsätze nehmen solche vielschichtigen Stadt-Ansichten in den Blick…

Spring Conference 2011, Weimar
16. April 2011 no comments in Past Conferences

Shakespeare’s Shipwrecks: Theatres of Maritime Adventure The 2011 spring conference of the German Shakespeare Society, organised in association with the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), will take place 28 April – 1 May 2011 in Weimar (Germany).   Shakespearean theatre and drama show a world of maritime experience. Born from an early modern culture of…

Autumn Conference 2010, Zürich
16. November 2010 no comments in Past Conferences

Much Ado About Nothing On November 26 and 27, 2010, the autumn conference took place in cooperation with the Schauspielhaus Zurich. The conference focused on Shakespearean comedy. On the evening of November 26, the conference participants saw “Much Ado About Nothing” in a production by Karin Henkel (premiere on September 30, 2010). As always, an…

SHJB 146 (2010) Aufbruch in die Moderne
27. May 2010 no comments in Yearbooks

Aufbruch in die Moderne Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts wird Shakespeare als moderner Dramatiker entdeckt, der – im Rahmen einer allgemeineren kulturellen und politischen Neuorientierung – die kritische Verhandlung der dramatischen, literarischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Konventionen ermöglichte. Die hier versammelten Beiträge loten die vielfältigen und widersprüchlichen Aspekte dieses ‘Aufbruchs in die Moderne’ aus und diskutieren die Konkurrenz von…

Spring Conference 2010, Bochum
16. April 2010 no comments in Past Conferences

The Poet and the City From April 23 to 25, 2010, the members of the German Shakespeare Society met for the Shakespeare Days in Bochum, European Capital of Culture as part of RUHR.2010. This event was held under the motto “The Poet and the City” and offered numerous public lectures by well-known Shakespeareans, particularly from…

Autumn Conference 2009, Cologne
16. November 2009 no comments in Past Conferences

King Lear The autumn conference of the German Shakespeare Society took place on November 27 and 28, 2009 in Cologne.   Speakers: Jayne Archer/ Richard Turley (Aberystwyth) Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania) Ewan Fernie (London) Beate Neumeier (Köln) H.-J. Hermes/ Marcel Hartwig (Chemnitz) Björn Quiring (München) Workshop: Frank Rohde (Schauspiel Köln)      …

SHJB 145 (2009) Bühne und Bankett
27. May 2009 no comments in Yearbooks

Bühne und Bankett Wie, was und mit wem wir essen, ist konstitutiver Teil unserer sozialen Identität. Im frühneuzeitlichen England zeigt sich dies unter anderem in medizinisch, moralisch oder religiös argumentierenden Diätlehren, in schichtenspezifischen Eßkulturen, im saisonalen Wechsel von Alltags- und Festzeiten, nicht zuletzt auch in der Differenzierung zwischen Eigenem und Fremden auf der Grundlage von…

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