IMC 2026: Sessions

Session 734: Hans Sachs, I: On Time

Tuesday 7 July 2026, 14:15-15:45

Organisers:	Philip Flacke, Germanistisches Institut / DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2945 'Wissen - Glauben - Behaupten: Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne', Ruhr-Universität Bochum Timothy Powell, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages / St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Timothy Powell, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages / St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Paper 734-a	Temporality and the Writing of Histories in Sachs' Work (Language: English) Florent Gabaude, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines / Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles (EHIC - UR 13334), Université de Limoges Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German
Paper 734-b	Staging War and Peace: Hans Sachs' Trojan War (Language: English) Almut Schneider, Institut für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Philipps-Universität Marburg Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Performance Arts - Drama, Women's Studies
Paper 734-c	Listing Time: Sachs' Enumeratio and Historical Thinking (Language: English) Philip Flacke, Germanistisches Institut / DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2945 'Wissen - Glauben - Behaupten: Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne', Ruhr-Universität Bochum Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Printing History
Paper 734-d	Hans Sachs and Prophecy (Language: English) Thomas Wood, Independent Scholar Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Theology
Abstract	The year 2026 marks the 450th death anniversary of the most renowned German poet of the Reformation period Hans Sachs (1494–1576). To commemorate this occasion, we want to look into Sachs’s work and reception through the lens of the IMC theme Temporalities in two sessions. The first session explores facets of time, historical thinking, and memory in Sachs’s poetical texts. The papers focus on poems and dramatic texts as case studies, which reveal moments of interplay between both real and imagined medieval tradition, the present of the printing revolution and religious upheaval, and envisioned futures.