German in the UK

Shakespeare is German

Tuesday 2nd November, 2010 to Thursday 27th January, 2011

Location: London - Click for map

Tuesday 2 November at 7pm at Shakespeare’s Globe
Talk – Made in Germany: Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Professor Manfred Pfister (Freie Universität Berlin). This talk will explore Germany’s fascination with the sonnets and various approaches to translation. Tickets: £5 (£3 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe, Concessions, Students).

Tuesday 9 November at 7pm at Goethe-Institut London
Screening – Der Kaufmann von Venedig (The Jew of Mestri). Silent film, written, directed and produced by Peter Paul Felner with live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne. Includes a post-show discussion. Tickets: £3

Thursday 11 November at 7pm at Goethe-Institut London
Screening – Der Rest ist Schweigen (The Rest is Silence) Käutner transposes Hamlet to post-war West-Germany, critiquing the war profiteering of the German industry during World War II, the film makes many direct references to Shakespeare’s original. Includes a post-show discussion. Tickets: £3

Saturday 13 November at 7pm at Goethe-Institut London
Platform discussion – Hamlet. Using excerpts from a recording of Schaubüne’s production, director Thomas Ostermeier discusses his radical approach to the play and the character of Hamlet with David Lan, Artistic Director of the Young Vic. Tickets: £3

Sunday 14 November at Shakespeare’s Globe Sackler Studios
12-2pm, seminar introduction to the following Read not Dead performance
3-6pm, staged reading – Alphonsus Emperor of Germany (published 1654) by George Chapman
The story of a ruthless emperor who never learned to share. Although not published until 1654, the play dates from the 1590s. Some scenes in Henry V suggest that Shakespeare knew this play. Tickets: seminar £13 (£10 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe, Concessions, Students); staged reading £8 (£5 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe, Concessions, Students).

Thursday 18 November at 7pm at Goethe-Institut London
Platform discussion – hamlet_X. Herbert Fritsch, the author and director of hamlet_X, and his collaborator Sabrina Zwach will present a selection of clips and talk about their sacrilegious approach to the material.
Tickets: £3

Sunday 21 November 2010 at Shakespeare’s Globe Sackler Studios
12-2pm, seminar introduction to the following Read not Dead performance
3-6pm, staged reading – Albertus Wallenstein (published 1640) by Henry Glapthorne
Wallenstein had been assassinated only a few years before this play about him was staged. Schiller knew Glapthorne’s play when he embarked upon his more famous version a century and a half later. Tickets: seminar £13 (£10 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe, Concessions, Students); staged reading £8 (£5 Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe, Concessions, Students).

Thursday 27 January 2011 at 4.45pm, BFI Southbank
Screening – Sven Gade’s Hamlet (1920)
A world premiere of a new print with music composed by Claire van Kampen and played live by six musicians. Supported by The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and BFI

How to book:

Shakespeare’s Globe box office: 020 7401 9919

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