Jhy-Wey Shieh

Jhy-Wey Shieh or Shieh Jhy-Wey ( Chinese  謝志偉 , Pinyin Xiè Zhìwěi ; born January 6, 1955 in Keelung ) is a Taiwanese German studies scholar and the current diplomatic representative of Taiwan in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

From 1973 to 1977 he earned a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of German Language and Culture at Soochow University , and from 1977 to 1980 a master's degree in German and modern literary studies at Fu-Jen University . Between 1982 and 1987 he did his doctorate with a DAAD scholarship at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1992 to 1994 he received a research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and from 1987 to 2016 taught as a lecturer and professor at the Department of German Language and Culture at Soochow University. From 1995 to 1998 he was President of the Association of Germanists and German Teachers Taiwan and from 1996 to 2002 Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​at Soochow University. Between 1997 and 2002 he was an advisor to the Taiwan Ministry of Education. He worked as a columnist for the Liberty Times from 2003 to 2005 . From 2005 to 2007 he was the representative of Taiwan in the Federal Republic of Germany . Under President Chen Shui-bian, he served as Minister and Head of the Government Information Bureau from 2007 to 2008, and as a government spokesman. From 2008 to 2016 he hosted a talk show on Formosa TV . Since 2016 he has been the representative of the Taipei Mission in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Fonts (selection)

• Love, marriage, household. The linguistic and visual representation of the “woman's room in the manor” in Fontane's social novel “Effi Briest” . Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8204-1042-2 .
• If a hunter gets into the poacher's enclosure ... On the poacher motif in German literature . Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89528-135-2 .

Web links

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References and comments

1. ↑ in Chinese, the surname is usually written first