Germany is obsessed with Hamlet? Don't think so. Hamlet is presumably as often played as other classics like Goethe's Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther, and William Tell. That are the ones that are also read and learned in school. But I had never to read Shakespeare.

This article has a very limited view and such tells a wrong story. Don't know what is the intention behind.

Personally, I still know parts out of mind from Faust and William Tell, but don't know anything from Shakespeare.