We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of RSC Honorary Associate Artist, Sir Patrick Stewart; a colossus of both stage and screen and one of the finest classical Shakespearean actors of his generation.
German Shakespeare Society (DSG)
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The German Shakespeare Society / Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (DSG), founded in Weimar in 1864, is open to everyone interested in and enthusiastic about Shakespeare. Join the DSG today! https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/?lan
Something is rotten in the city of Vienna? 📚 Join us for a reading and discussion of Measure for Measure on October 29, 19-21h, on Zoom! Please register for the event. For details, see below 👇🏼 or visit our website. shakespeare-gesellschaft.de
📢 Jetzt bewerben! DSG-Projektförderung und Schulpreis für schulische Shakespeare-Projekte. Bewerbungen sind bis zum 15.10. möglich. Nähere Informationen unter shakespeare-gesellschaft.de
Only two days left to apply for our Schulpreis and secure 500€ in funding for your Shakespeare-related school project! Deadline: 15 October. Visit our website to find out how to submit your application!
With October, we're also welcoming a new recurring format: the first issue of our LinkedIn Newsletter is out today! Featured this time are impressions from "fair Verona", Shakespeare in school and seeds in Shakespeare, as well as many more events from the past and the future. lnkd.in/p/dZ7QGT99
#1 The past is prologue | Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft / German Shakespeare Society
The past is prologue - Was vor mehr als 400 Jahren aktuell war, schwingt auch heute noch mit. "Wahrheit / Truth" begleitet uns dieses Jahr, angefangen bei der Frühjahstagung zum gleichnamigen Thema bi...
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Very excited to have the opportunity to think about #TitusAndronicus as a precursor to/trial run/source of #MeasureForMeasure for this event. So many crossovers: in/justice, consent, rape, forced marriage, revenge, mercy, piety, pleading, beheading, substitutions ... and silence.
German Shakespeare Society (DSG)@dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · last mo.📣 Registration is open! Join us in Weimar on 6–7 November to discuss authority and its abuses, governance, and legitimacy in #Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure! We're very much looking forward to welcoming our distinguished speakers, including @pascaleexeter.bsky.social and @lizschafer.bsky.social.🎭
📣 Registration is open! Join us in Weimar on 6–7 November to discuss authority and its abuses, governance, and legitimacy in #Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure! We're very much looking forward to welcoming our distinguished speakers, including @pascaleexeter.bsky.social and @lizschafer.bsky.social.🎭
Thank you to the organizers & entire team of #Anglistiktag 2026 @lmu.de and to all participants of our panel on #Shakespeare as a #Renewable #Resource. What a fantastic discussion and turnout it has been! Looking forward to seeing many of you in #Weimar for the #DSG fall conference 2026. 🍁🌻🍂
Save the date for our next #Shakespeare Webinar with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social. On 7 September at 6pm she will be joined by Dr Harry Newman (Royal Holloway) to explore The Winter's Tale. #WintersTale Free, but registration required. Find out more:
English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith
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Have you signed the change.org petition to fight cuts in Humanities and Social Science departments at Exeter yet? If so, you might want to sign this, too: there's a wholesale attack on the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. This goes way beyond a single institution: it's an ecosystem.
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Pascale Aebischer (she/her)@pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 4mo agoHave you signed the change.org petition to fight cuts in Humanities and Social Science departments at Exeter yet? If so, you might want to sign this, too: there's a wholesale attack on the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. This goes way beyond a single institution: it's an ecosystem.
❤️felt thanks to @wsc2026verona.bsky.social, the #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust, the #InternationalShakespeareAssociation & the local organizers for a splendid week in 'fair Verona'! What a fantastic congress it has been, bringing together global networks of scholars, artists & enthusiasts. A true joy!🎉
We have written a letter in support of our colleagues at @universityofexeter.bsky.social facing redundancy. #ShakespeareStudies at Exeter is an internationally admired community of collaboration and exchange. Please share and sign the petition (link below) #HigherEd shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/8834
The @wsc2026verona.bsky.social is in full swing with fantastic keynotes, roundtables, panels, seminars, workshops, interviews & the @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Shakespeare Fourth Series presentation now. 🎉 Evenings are also a highlight with the #Verona #Shakespeare Fringe. What a Shakespeare feast!
Kicking off #WSC2026 with Greg Doran in conversation with @paul-edmondson.bsky.social about Greg's memoir 'Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare' @wsc2026verona.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4ptABiw
WSC delegates, don't pass up on the opportunity to see the Macbeth produced by the students of the Shakespeare and the Mediterranean Summer School. Free admission – no ticket required. 📅 25 July, 4:00 pm 📍 Teatro Fucina Machiavelli (Via Madonna del Terraglio, 10) #wsc2026
What a fabulous opening of the @wsc2026verona.bsky.social with #Tempest Toss'd last night, the opening ceremony and a fantastic keynote by #ShormishthaPanja this morning and an interview with @gregdoran.bsky.social by @paul-edmondson.bsky.social at Juliet's Tomb now. Kudos to all organizers! 🎉
Happy 75th Anniversary to @shakesinstitute.bsky.social! 🎉 It was a joy to celebrate with our friends and colleagues at #ISC2026. Here's to many more collaborations—and to the next 75 years of Shakespeare scholarship, friendship, and discovery! Celebrations continue @wsc2026verona.bsky.social!
Fourth Series General Editor Tiffany Stern and Fourth Series Fellow Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social repping the series in their on-brand outfits at the ISC conference @shakesinstitute.bsky.social last week! https://bit.ly/4yrQoCA
'In fair Verona' - The WSC @wsc2026verona.bsky.social is starting tomorrow with delegates from all over the world, including members of the German Shakespeare Society. What a gorgeous setting 🫶🏼
All you need is an empty stage... Es hat viel Spaß gemacht, nach unserer Performance über die Relevanz Shakespeares in der heutigen Zeit zu diskutieren. Herzlichen Dank an Marcel Zuber (Steinfuß-Theater), Niels Pfeffer (#HDMK) und Orlando Schenk (Akademie für gesprochenes Wort) & alle Teilnehmenden!
Am 24. Juni findet um 18:00 an der @unistuttgart.bsky.social im Rahmen des #StudiumGenerale der #SzenischeVortrag "'Speak of me as I am' - #Shakespeare in Zeiten der Spaltung" mit @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social statt. 🎶 Musik und 🎭 szenische Präsentation: Niels Pfeffer, Orlando Schenk & Marcel Zuber.
'Hamnet' for all! Join the first online event of the #GermanShakespeareSociety and discuss what you always wanted to know about '#Hamnet' with two esteemed Shakespeare scholars, @susannegruss.bsky.social @uni-bamberg.de and Lena Steveker @uni.lu @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. All Welcome!
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: DSG Online: Hamnet for all . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: DSG Online: Hamnet for all . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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German Shakespeare Society (DSG)@dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us on 19 June, 16:00-16:45 CET for an online discussion of Hamnet! All details, including the registration link, can be found on our website: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de
Join us on 19 June, 16:00-16:45 CET for an online discussion of Hamnet! All details, including the registration link, can be found on our website: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de
#Veranstaltungshinweis: Wir hoffen, Sie sind ausgeschlafen! Denn heute findet in der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek die „Lange Nacht der Museen“ statt. Von 18 bis 24 Uhr gibt es Bibliotheksführungen, Mitmachangebote und Einblicke „hinter die Regale“.
FAIRY: 'I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.' (Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 1)
A thousand thanks to all speakers and participants who made our conference on #Shakespeare and #truth a success. We're especially grateful to our plenary speakers, to #Schauspielhaus Bochum for their hospitality, and to @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, and the city of #Bochum for their generous support!
'Is not the truth the truth?' Falstaff's (false stuff?) question invites a closer look at practices & performances of 'truth' in Shakespeare's plays. We welcome submissions to the #Shakespeare Yearbook on the topic of #truth. 🗓 Submission deadline: 31 May. shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/publications...
Call for Papers – Shakespeare Gesellschaft
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🍓 Final conferences day with our #Martin-Lehnert Prize ceremony, a podium discussion with @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2945 on truth production and plenty of opportunities in the afternoon. 🍓
