Official re-opening of the Munich Shakespeare Library 2022

On Thursday, October 27, 2022 we celebrated the official re-opening of the Munich Shakespeare Library at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. After extensive renovation work, a move and a series of closures for Covid-19, the Munich Shakespeare Library is now once more open for students, researchers and other readers with an interest in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period.

(© Stephan Höck)

The evening was opened by Prof. Dr. Bernd Huber, president of LMU, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schmid, Dean of the Faculty for Linguistics and Literature, and Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk, Director of the Munich Shakespeare Library.

Professor Michael Dobson and Sir Stanley Wells from the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon gave welcome addresses.

 

 

 (Prof. Ewan Fernie) (© Stephan Höck)

The keynote speech, “Shakespeare Libraries und kein Ende”, was presented by Professor Ewan Fernie (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham).

 

(from left to right: Sir Stanley Wells, Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk and Prof. Ewan Fernie) (© Stephan Höck)