IMC 2026: Sessions

Session 834: Hans Sachs, II: In Time

Tuesday 7 July 2026, 16:30-18:00

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:	Theresa Specht, SFB 1472 'Transformations of the Popular', Universität Siegen
Paper 834-a	Changes in Reception: The Appeal of Hans Sachs for Goethe and Wieland (Language: English) Hans Rudolf Velten, Germanistisches Seminar / SFB 1472 'Transformations of the Popular', Universität Siegen Henrike Schwab, Germanistisches Seminar / Mediävistik, Universität Siegen Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - Drama
Paper 834-b	Leo Perutz, Hans Sachs, and the Many Ways to Play Games with Infidelity (Language: English) Nathanael Busch, Institut für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Philipps-Universität Marburg Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 834-c	Temporalities and Medieval Anniversary Culture: The Hans Sachs Quatercentenary in the German Democratic Republic, 1976 (Language: English) Timothy Powell, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages / St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought
Paper 834-d	Publishing Hans Sachs in the 21st Century (Language: English) Darleen Herbst, Germanistisches Seminar, Universität Siegen Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
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 second session investigates the embeddedness of Sachs and his work in time on a broader scale. The papers look into the reception, commemoration, and reappearance of his work in later centuries, highlighting practices of editing, studying, imagining, and reshaping in the search for the historic Hans Sachs or drawing out aspects of his life and work that respond to the needs of different historical moments.