Mirjam Tröster

Programme coordination (M.A. Sinology, Modern East Asian Studies, study abroad)
- Programme coordinator M.A. Modern East Asian Studies (MEAS)
- Study programme coordination Sinology (general questions; M.A. Sinology)
- Study abroad coordinator (general questions and Taiwan); for the ICES programme
Office: Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften (SKW), 5th floor room 05.B137
Phone: +49(0)69/798-28795
Email: m.troester(at)em.uni-frankfurt.de
Consultation hours: Thursdays 15:00 to 17:00 p.m.; office hours are, as a general rule, held in person (SKW 05.B137). Please register via .
Publications, conference presentations and events
PUBLICATIONS
- [in preparation]. Translocal Theatrical Touring from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau in China.
- 2021. The City and the Artist: Alice Theatre Laboratory’s Seven Boxes Possessed of Kafka in Shanghai. In Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies), ed. Rossella Ferrari und Ashley Thorpe. London: Routledge.
- 2020. Selfish Faint Hearts, Ardent Fighters, and Gallant Heroines? – Characters in Plays about the Taiwan Republic. In Discourses of Weakness in Modern China: Historical Diagnoses of the ’Sick Man of East Asia’ (Schwächediskurse und Ressourcenregime/ Discourses of Weakness & Resource Regimes), ed. Iwo Amelung, 409-462. Frankfurt & New York: Campus.
- 2013. [co-edited with Eike Großmann]. Gesellschaft, Theater & Kritik: Aktuelle Themen auf den Bühnen Japans, Chinas und Taiwans (Frankfurt East Asian Studies Series; 4). München: Iudicium.
- 2013. [with Eike Großmann]. Einleitung. In ibid., 7-24. München: Iudicium.
- 2013. Trauer um Taiwan: Zwei Produktionen von Katherine Hui-ling Chou. In ibid., 87-107. München: Iudicium.
- 2012. [Tong Minwei]. Guilaile haishi gui lai le? Yi jinnianlai Taiwan wutaiju de huaixiang yu huijia de zhuti wei li (Homecoming or ghostly arrivals? Home-longing and homecoming in contemporary Taiwanese spoken drama productions). In Xin shiji Huawen xiju yanjiu - di-ba jie Huawen Xijujie (Aomen 2011) lunwenji (Studies on Chinese-language theatre of the new century – Proceedings of the 8th Chinese Drama Festival (Macau 2011)), ed. Mok Siochong, 222-230. Macau: Aomen Huawen Xiju Xuehui.
- 2011. Eine Schrift für viele Stimmen? Konzept und Bühnenwirklichkeit des huawen xiju. In Sprache und Wirklichkeit in China (Jahrbuch der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS)), ed. Christian Soffel, Daniel Leese and Marc Nürnberger, 273-287. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.
- 2009. Conference report‚Cultural Power Asia – Producing Culture, Building Identities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asia’s Emerging Cultural Power. Internationale Konferenz, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien, Frankfurt, 13.-15. November 2008’, Asien 110: 114-116.
- 2005. [translation, with Regine Reim]. Regeln der richterlichen Berufsethik der VR China (Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo faguan zhiye daode jiben zhunze), Zeitschrift für chinesisches Recht 12,1: 46-54.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS
- 03/01/2025. "Collaborative Documentary Practices in the Performing Arts", Taiwan as a Contact Zone: Connecting to the German-Speaking World, Vienna
- 08/11/2024. "Teaching Taiwan Theatre - The Predicament of Using Digital Performance Archives in the Classroom", Mapping Taiwan Teaching - Teaching Taiwan in Script, Speech and Performance, Trier University
- 28/08/2024. "Reinventing the Kaohsiung Film Festival through immersive storytelling", 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Tallinn University
- 08/06/2024. Panel moderation "Advancements in Korean Visual Effects and Digital Media", 11th Korean Screen Culture Conference, 51 Frankfurt
- 26/04/2024. "The Production and Distribution of Immersive Experiences at Kaohsiung Film Archive and Kaohsiung Film Festival", CEDITRAA Workshop/Conference: Dis/Ordering Distribution: Infrastructures, Formats and Practices in the Circulation of Culture, 51 Frankfurt
- 07/10/2023. "Evolving Networks of Extended Reality Film: The Case of Kaohsiung Film Festival’, International Conference: The Work of Cinema in the Age of a New World Order, National Chung Hsing University
- 07/07/2023. Panel organisation and moderation "East Asian Antecedents, Trajectories and Reactions to the Korean Wave", International CEDITRAA Workshop: In Hallyu We Trust? Revisiting Soft Power in the New World Order of Cultural Production, 51 Frankfurt
- 05/07/2023. "The Visualization of Memory in Virtual Reality and Video Installation", organization and moderation of artist talk and discussion with Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin, 51 Frankfurt
- 24/08/2021. “The City and the Artist: Alice Theatre Laboratory’s Seven Boxes Possessed of Kafka in Shanghai“, 23rd Biennal Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Leipzig University
- 09/07/2021. "Regional and Transnational Consumption", panel moderation, CEDITRAA Opening Conference, 51 Frankfurt
- 28/02/2020. “Der Einsatz von Wikis in unterschiedlichen Unterrichtsszenarien im Fach Sinologie”, China-AG Lehre, 51 Frankfurt
- 28/06/2019. “Taiwan Theatre's Journey Across the Strait: Challenges and Opportunities”, Review and Prospective: The Challenge and Opportunity of Taiwan’s Past, Present and Future, 1997–2017, Taiwan Studies Programme Conference 2019, University of Nottingham
- 09/06/2018. Participation in the panel “Welche Prüfungsanforderungen und Prüfungsformen sind im Hinblick auf die Vermittlung fortgeschrittener Lesekompetenzen sinnvoll? Wie ist der Einsatz standardisierter Prüfungen (HSK, TOCFL) in dieser Hinsicht zu bewerten? Erfahrungsaustausch - auch über die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit von TOCFL und HSK”, Fachverband Chinesisch in cooperation with dem Confucius Institute Frankfurt, department of Sinology, 51 Frankfurt am Main
- 09/09/2017. “Theatrical Touring and/as Exchange: Hong Kong Theatre Productions in Mainland China”, Hong Kong in Transition: Asian City-to-City Collaboration and Performing Arts Exchange, 1997–2017, SOAS, University of London
- 13/11/2016. “Von Häusern und Reisenden: Ortsspezifisches Theater in Macau”, XXVII. Annual convention of Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien e.V. (DVCS), 51 Frankfurt
- 27/08/2016. “Demolishing Neighbourhoods, Establishing Communities of Sentiment: Touring Productions from Taiwan and Macau in Mainland China”, 21st Biennal Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), St. Petersburg State University
- 22/06/2016. "Martial Law: New Literature from Taiwan", moderation of reading and discussion with Dr. Thilo Diefenbach and Prof. Dr. Shieh Jhy-Wey
- 10/06/2016. “Catalysts and Stumbling Blocks: Translocal Touring of The Village”, Taiwan Studies in Trans* Perspectives: Transdisciplinary, Transnational, and Transcultural, NATSA Annual Conference, University of Toronto
- 06/05/2016. “Visualising Borders on Stage: The Case of Theatrical Touring across the Taiwan Strait”, Culture, Capital & Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century, Manchester School of Art
- 05/12/2015. “Selfish Fainthearts, Ardent Fighters, and Gallant Heroines? – Characters in Plays about the ‘Republic of Taiwan’”, Disourses of Weakness in Late 19th and Early 20th Century China, conference of SFB 1095 'Schwächediskurse und Ressourcenregime', 51 Frankfurt
- 12/07/2014. “Taiwanese Theatre’s Translocal Connections: The Use of Metatheatre in Taiwanese Theatrical Productions Touring Mainland China”, Taiwanizing the World? Positioning Taiwan: Participation – Integration – Impacts, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 06/07/2014. Poster presentation on studying in China and Taiwan, 'Starker Start ins Studium', 51 Frankfurt.
- 17-18/01/2014. Introduction to Huangliang yi meng, Gallus Theater Frankfurt am Main
- 23/07/2013. “Touring Theatrical Productions of Taiwan and Hong Kong in Mainland China: Re-Routing National Imaginings”, annual convention International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) 2013: “Re-routing Performance / Re-caminant l’escena”, Barcelona
- 16/12/2011. “Guilaile haishi gui lai le? Yi jinnianlai Taiwan wutaiju de huaixiang yu huijia de zhuti wei li (Homecoming or ghostly arrivals? Home-longing and homecoming in contemporary Taiwanese spoken drama productions)”, 8th Chinese Drama Festival Macau
- 27/11/2010. Panel organisation with Sven Kosel. “Past and Present of Japanese Cultural Hegemonies as Mirrored in Popular Culture in Southeast Asia and China”, annual convention Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (VSJF), 51 Frankfurt am Main
- 28-29/05/2010. Colloquium and workshop organisation with Eike Großmann. “‘Entfesselte Welt(en)?’ Erlösungs- und Untergangsszenarien im modernen Theater Ostasiens”, supported by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, 51 Frankfurt am Main
- 28/05/2010. “Trauer um Taiwan – Inszenierung einer gescheiterten Gesellschaft in Katherine Hui-ling Chous ‘Erinnerungsphotoalbum’ (2002)”, 51 Frankfurt am Main
- 28/05/2010. With Eike Großmann. Introduction to “‘Entfesselte Welt(en)?’ Erlösungs- und Untergangsszenarien im modernen Theater Ostasiens”, 51 Frankfurt am Main
- 29/11/2009. “‘Theater in chinesischer Sprache’ (huawen xiju) – auf der Suche nach einer Bezeichnung für den Sprechtheateraustausch zwischen China, Taiwan und Hongkong: Theorie und Praxis”, annual convention Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien (DVCS), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- 14/11/2008. Panel organisation young scholars panel. “Cultural Power Asia – Producing Culture, Building Identities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asia’s Emerging Cultural Power”, Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO), 51 Frankfurt am Main