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Germany is obsessed with Hamlet? Don't think so. Hamlet is presumably as often played as other classics like Goethe's Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther, an
by PinguTS 11y ago
Germany is obsessed with Hamlet? Don't think so. Hamlet is presumably as often played as other classics like Goethe's Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther, and William Tell. That are the ones that are also read and learned in school. But I had never to read Shakespeare.
This article has a very limited view and such tells a wrong story. Don't know what is the intention behind.
Personally, I still know parts out of mind from Faust and William Tell, but don't know anything from Shakespeare.
- codingbinary 11y agoSame here. I couldn't care less about Hamlet or other works by Shakespeare. And I cannot recall any of my other friends having _any_ tendency towards Hamlet at all.
- phphphph 11y agoHow old are you, if I may ask?
- codingbinary 11y ago29, why?
- phphphph 11y agoI started to care about the stuff we read in school in my early thirties (Shakespeare would be an exception, for ... reasons). There's a special exception for Max Frisch which I discovered mid-twenties and was very thankful I did not have to read it in school. So, well, the "why" is: maybe later in your life. (There's another "why" in "you an your friends aren't necessarily representative for Germany as a whole, bit that would have been a rather cheap comment)
- aschreyer 11y agoMaybe it is because the anglophiles assume that because they feel Shakespeare is such an outstanding figure in their own culture he must have the status in every other and cannot possible fathom something else. The truth is though, here in Germany (and surely in countries like France), Shakespeare is overwhelmingly known only through English media/culture such as TV shows, movies etc. and as far as I know not on any educational plan at all. Why would it be? There is such as vast amount of German writing (in the past at least) that one can easily do without him. I guess the problem is also that there was historically little overlap between English (i.e. British) and continental poetry (although translating Shakespeare into German was done by poets such as Schiller) and coincidentally, philosophy as well, at least that would be my impression.
- PinguTS 11y agoI am from Jena, the root of the romantic movement and the chosen hometown of Schiller and workplace of Goethe. So, I had some of that stuff (Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, Schlegel, …) in school.
- wolfi 11y agoThe Sorrows of Young Werther is not a play, it's a novel
- PinguTS 11y agoWhich doesn't mean, that there are no adaption, like this one: http://www.nationaltheater-weimar.de/de/index/spielplan/stuecke_musiktheater/stuecke_details.php?SID=25 http://www.nationaltheater-weimar.de/de/index/spielplan/stue...