Ringvorlesung "Semantiken der Wahrheit – Praktiken der Wahrheitsproduktion"

Ringvorlesung des GRK2945 (SoSe25, Mittwochs 10–12, HGB 20)

Roland Weidle, Ben Scherer
'This chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown': Negotiating 'True Rule' in Shakespeare's 2nd Tetralogy
25.06.2025

Tagung: Vom Skriptorium zum Cyberspace

Die inderdisziplinäre Tagung findet vom 11. bis 13. März im Rahmen der RUB Winter School an der Fakultät für Philologie in GB 5/160 statt. Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.

Roland Weidle hält einen Vortrag zum Thema "Whats new to speak: Aporien des Schreibens in Shakespeares Sonetten".
12.03., 13:15 Uhr

A Comprehensive Guide on Tour

Roland Weidle's latest publication A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets goes on tour!

German Shakespeare Society: Spring Conference

'Shakespeare and popular culture' is the theme of our spring conference from April 25-27 2025. From Star Trek to hip hop, from advertising to video games, Shakespeare is omnipresent and is invoked – explicitly and implicitly – in many places as the cultural authority of our time. We will also be looking at the phenomenon of 'Shakespop'.

German Shakespeare Society: Autumn Conference

The autumn conference of the German Shakespeare Society will take place on 22 and 23 November 2024 in Weimar and is traditionally dedicated to one play - this year it is Troilus and Cressida. The German National Theatre Weimar will be showing Othello (directed by Adewale Adebisi) as part of the conference on 22 November, and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar will be offering guided tours of the special exhibitions 'Sophie. Macht. Literatur' and 'Caspar David Friedrich, Goethe und die Moderne'.

A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets

Roland Weidle's A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets is set to release with Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare in November 2024.

Graduiertenkolleg 2945 // Research Training Group 2945

Knowing – Believing – Asserting: Production and Enforcement of Truth in the Premodern Period
Dissertation projects with a focus on Shakespeare/Theater of the Early Modern period are welcome.

The application phase ends on 22 July 2024.

German Shakespeare Society: Spring Conference

Schauspielhaus Bochum
19.-21. April 2024

With the theme "Diversity and Community", the conference takes up current debates on diversity and representation and reflects on them with regard to the role of Shakespeare's works for historical and contemporary concepts of community.

Panel discussion "Macbeth"

As part of the longstanding cooperation between the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the German Shakespeare Society, Prof. Roland Weidle invited theatre director Johan Simons and actor Stefan Hunstein to a panel discussion on the Schauspielhaus production of Macbeth, which premiered on 12 May 2023.

German Shakespeare Society: Spring Conference

Ruhr-Universität, Kunstmuseum Bochum
22.-24. April 2022

The conference theme "Shakespeare's Odysseys" is connected to the commemoration of the year 1922 and is dedicated to the journeys, odysseys and adventures that Shakespeare's work experienced through space, time and discourse. The conference examines both the processing of antiquity and the Homeric epics in Shakespeare's work as well as its own impact in the light of creative appropriations and further developments.

Performance Project "Shakespeare For Future"

This project is the result of the two-part module "English Drama in Action" taught in the Optionalbereich programme at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the winter term 2020/21. In the seminar "Early Modern Ecocriticism" taught by Prof. Roland Weidle ten students identified and contextualized ecological concerns in early modern texts by numerous authors of the time. Through creative experimentation in the theatre laboratory taught by Kai Bernhardt (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Dr. Niklas Füllner (Universität Koblenz-Landau) the students used the results of the seminar to write, rehearse and ultimately record their digital projects. The six digital performance projects of "Shakespeare for Future" are available on this website:

Panel discussion "Hamlet"

As part of the longstanding cooperation between the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the German Shakespeare Society, Prof. Roland Weidle invited theatre director Johan Simons and actor Jing Xiang to a panel discussion on the Schauspielhaus production of Hamlet, which premiered on 15 June 2019.

Academy Award nominee Sandra Hüller is part of the ensemble.

Shakespeare-Wochen 2014 in Bochum

To celebrate the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth, the German Shakespeare Society, the English Department of the Ruhr-University Bochum and the City of Bochum coordinated a four-week festival in which more than 30 institutions, artists and cultural institutions participated. From 18 October to 16 November 2014, theatre performances, concerts, performances, readings, competition presentations, exhibitions, film screenings, conferences, workshops and other events took place at various venues in Bochum, all dealing with the life and work of the British playwright and poet.

Stage/Directions Vol. 1: The Tempest

January 2012

Read about this remarkable production of Shakespeare's The Tempest and the various groups of people involved in its preparation.