Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
One of the glories of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Library is that it boasts holdings in no less than 93 languages. In this film, Professor Tobias Döring of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich addresses Birmingham’s German Shakespeare Freunde in their own language, symbolically exemplifying that this city’s Shakespeare Library for everybody very much seeks to include people who speak languages other than English.
Professor Tobias Döring reports on the German research material held in the Library of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Collection.
Professor Ewan Fernie, ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project Director.
History West Midlands - Executive Producer - Mike Gibbs
Film Production Credit: Director Sean Griffiths - ICE Productions Ltd
Birmingham University, Birmingham City Council
One of the glories of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Library is that it boasts holdings in no less than 93 languages. In this film, Professor Tobias Döring of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich addresses Birmingham’s German Shakespeare Freunde in their own language, symbolically exemplifying that this city’s Shakespeare Library for everybody very much seeks to include people who speak languages other than English.
Professor Tobias Döring reports on the German research material held in the Library of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Collection.
Professor Ewan Fernie, ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project Director.
History West Midlands - Executive Producer - Mike Gibbs
Film Production Credit: Director Sean Griffiths - ICE Productions Ltd
Birmingham University, Birmingham City Council
