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Still shot of The Globe from the award-winning Shakespeare authorship film Der Nackte Shakespeare (The Naked Shakespeare) directed by Claus Bredenbrock. Photo courtesy Kinofilm by Linda Theil Neue Shake-speareGesellschaft  (New Shakespeare Society) board member Hanno Wember of Hamburg, Germany sent an update on the German authorship film,   The Naked Shakespeare by Claus Bredenbrock .   Wember said: After the “Award of Excellence” (IndieFest, La Jolla, USA, November 2013) the documentary film by Claus Bredenbrock received the “Bronze World Medal, New York Festivals World’s Best TV+Films, USA 2014”, as released today, Tuesday April 8th, 2014, in Las Vegas at the National Association of Broadcasters show . For more information about the award, see 2014 NEW YORK FESTIVALS TV & FILM AWARDS FINALISTS  online listing. Scroll to "Germany" - "Cultural Issues" Der Nackte Shakespeare (The Naked Shakespear e) was screened at the SOS/SF annual con...

by Linda Theil Neue Shake-speareGesellschaft (New Shakespeare Society) board member Hanno Wember of Hamburg, Germany reports that Kurt Kreiler’s new book, Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford -- The Thriftless Threadwhich Pampered Beauty Spins , was released by leading German publisher Suhrkamp/Insel on November 11, 2013. The book features commentary and translation into German of the poems of Edward de Vere (1550-1604). “The book - although in German - is bilingual concerning the poems. Interested people can at least read the poems in the original language,” Wember said. “ Suhrkamp/Insel is is one of the leading German publishing houses in literature.” Wember translated two paragraphs from the publisher’s webpage from German into English to give a sense of the content of Kreiler’s book about de Vere’s poems: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford Der zarte Faden, den die Schönheit spinn (“The thriftless thread which pamper’d beauty spins”) One Hundred Poems Edited and translated by ...