‘German fever’: Beckett and Germany - A talk by Mark Nixon

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Samuel Beckett’s life and work was profoundly shaped by his engagement with German culture, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music. This illustrated talk gives an overview of this long-lasting relationship, from his early visits to Kassel in the late 1920s and early 1930s, his six-month trip through Germany in 1936-37, to his theatrical productions at the Schiller Theater in Berlin in the 1960s and 1970s and subsequent television work at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mark Nixon is Professor of Modern Literature and Beckett Studies at the University of Reading, where he is also Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. He has authored or edited more than twenty books on Beckett’s work, and is currently preparing a critical edition of Beckett’s ‘German Diaries’ (with Oliver Lubrich; Suhrkamp, 2026).