At first I was very confused by this alleged Hamlet obsession. For many Germans, the number one source of knowing about Shakespeare is him getting quoted a lot

At first I was very confused by this alleged Hamlet obsession. For many Germans, the number one source of knowing about Shakespeare is him getting quoted a lot in Star Trek. Followed by that one Berlin wall/Romeo and Juliet crossover Asterix story. But if someone writes about the stage art scene, then the german stage art scene becomes "Germany" and suddenly it all makes prefect sense. Classics get reinterpreted to add new twists, but that only really works if the original material is sufficiently well known to the audience. It's hardly surprising that in a country with a different language (and different literary tradition) than English, only few of the works of Shakespeare reach that threshold.