Former PhD Students
Ruth Achenbach
Japanese Studies/Chinese Studies/Law
September 2011 - November 2011
Aya Adachi
March 2020 - May 2020
October 2000 - August 2001
May 2019 - September 2019
July 2015 - June 2016
October 2019 - March 2020
Nadeschda Bachem
Japanese and Korean Literary Studies
March 2015 - June 2015
October 2013 - February 2014
Peter Backhaus
Linguistics
August 2004 - February 2005
February 2010 - August 2010
May 2000 - October 2000
June 2010 - August 2010
Verena Blechinger
Politics
April 1995 - March 1996
May 1999 - July 1999
September 1993 - February 1994
October 2000 - January 2001
Innovation Studies, Science & Technology Studies (STS)
April 2006 - September 2006
January 1998 - December 1998
Yosuke Buchmeier
Japanese Studies, Communication Studies, Sociology
March 2020 - October 2020
May 2007 - December 2007
August 1999 - November 1999
March 2001 - June 2001
October 2005 - March 2006
October 1998 - February 1999
May 2004 - January 2005
Claudia Christ
Psychology, Japanese Studies
March 2004 - March 2005
Harald Conrad
Economics/ Social Science: Social Policy
June 1998 - September 1998
June 2019 - November 2019
November 1998 - October 1999
March 2008 - May 2008
July 1993 - September 1993
March 2011 - November 2011
July 1996 - June 1997
July 2000 - September 2000
Steve R. Entrich
Sociology of Education
March 2013 - September 2013
September 1998 - November 1998
June 2014 - May 2015
Carolin Fleischer
Japanese studies, Theater studies
April 2012 - March 2013
Gudrun Franzen
Japanese Studies, Economics
May 2011 - April 2012
September 1993 - August 1994
Veronika Julie Gaile
Law
April 2018 - August 2018
December 1998 - March 1999
Barbara Geilhorn
Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance Studies
September 2006 - July 2007
April 2008 - September 2008
April 1997 - June 1997
Wiebke Grimmig
Cultural Anthropology
April 2014 - March 2015
September 2007 - February 2008
July 1992 - August 1992
Maren Haufs-Brusberg
Japanese Studies, Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies
August 2018 - September 2018
March 2005 - February 2006
Viktoria Heindorf
Business and Economics
April 2004 - May 2004
April 2007 - February 2008
April 2001 - September 2001
September 1990 - February 1992
September 2004 - October 2005
June 1998 - September 1998
Monika Hinkel (geb. Retterath)
Japanese Studies, Oriental Art History
May 2003 - April 2004
June 2013 - February 2014
Phoebe Stella Holdgrün
Japanese Studies, Political Science
April 2008 - December 2008
Barbara Holthus
Sociology
June 1999 - September 1999
June 2007 - December 2007
July 2006 - April 2007
Carola Hommerich
Sociology
March 2007 - August 2007
Matthias Huber
October 2016 - June 2017
May 2006 - February 2007
Sybille Höhe
Japanese Studies, Study of Religions
June 2004 - July 2005
June 1996 - August 1996
October 2010 - March 2011
April 2017 - July 2017
July 2011 - March 2012
Sonja Hülsebus
Japanese Studies, Japanese postwar discourse, Heritage Studies
April 2018 - September 2018
Katharina Hülsmann
Transcultural Phenomena in Popular Culture, Gender Studies, Fan Studies, Media Culture in the Age of the Internet
April 2017 - October 2017
April 2008 - June 2008
April 2014 - September 2014
May 2017 - December 2017
April 2015 - September 2015
October 1992 - June 1993
July 2013 - December 2013
Shizuka Jäger-Dresen
Sociology
December 2009 - May 2010
January 1999 - April 1999
June 1998 - September 1998
November 1988 - September 1989
Eva Kaminski
Japanologie, Kunstgeschichte, Slavistik
October 2002 - April 2003
Björn-Ole Kamm
Japanese Studies/Media Studies
June 2010 - October 2010
Axel Karpenstein
Political Science
September 2003 - August 2004
April 2017 - December 2017
October 2005 - February 2006
May 2011 - July 2011
Alexander Kimoto
Japanese studies, sociology, law
October 2002 - April 2003
April 2002 - June 2002
March 2005 - February 2006
October 1993 - January 1995
April 1994 - March 1995
Jonathan Krautter
Economic History
September 2017 - May 2018
July 1996 - March 1997
April 1995 - September 1995
Harald Kümmerle
History of Science, Digital Humanities
April 2019 - September 2019
March 2008 - February 2009
Sophia Anastasia Latsos
Economics
September 2016 - February 2017
Vincent Lesch
Japanese Studies, Sociology
April 2017 - December 2017
April 2016 - November 2016
October 2016 - June 2017
Shu-Hui Lin
Law, Art History
September 2018 - February 2019
May 2015 - December 2015
April 2006 - June 2006
Oliver Loidl
Japanologie, Erziehungswissenschaft
April 2002 - March 2003
May 1997 - October 1997
March 2013 - August 2013
May 1990 - September 1991
Ralph Lützeler
Geography, Population Studies
May 1990 - February 1992
April 2016 - January 2017
October 2002 - March 2003
October 1994 - September 1995
March 2005 - February 2006
January 2008 - June 2008
Verena Maser
Japanese Studies/ Sociology
May 2011 - April 2012
Sebastian Maslow
Political Science
April 2014 - December 2014
July 2009 - September 2009
September 2013 - November 2013
March 2006 - September 2006
May 1996 - April 1997
July 1992 - December 1993
April 1993 - March 1994
April 2016 - August 2016
June 2010 - October 2010
April 2003 - July 2003
Jan Niggemeier
Social Sciences, East Asian Studies
April 2018 - September 2018
Tobias Nogami Kamerling
Law
April 2016 - September 2016
October 1991 - September 1992
April 2003 - June 2003
November 1988 - February 1990
October 1989 - April 1991
April 2001 - July 2001
Grit Ose
Japanese studies, political science / international relations
April 2005 - September 2005
October 1993 - September 1994
March 2019 - January 2021
Maria Pastukhova
Political Science
April 2019 - June 2019
July 2014 - December 2014
Michael Pfeifer
Law
July 2015 - July 2016
April 1999 - June 1999
December 1998 - February 1999
October 2012 - February 2013
July 2010 - September 2010
March 2008 - February 2009
Florian Purkarthofer
Social Sciences, Urban Spaces, Spatial Planning, Critique and Utopia
July 2018 - February 2019
Benjamin Rabe
Social Science, East Asian Studies
March 2018 - July 2018
Bettina C. Rabe
Education/Japanese Studies
May 2006 - February 2007
Vyara Radulova
International Business
June 2015 - December 2015
January 1994 - January 1995
Nikolaus Raupp
Economics
July 2008 - November 2008
April 2002 - September 2002
April 2014 - July 2014
April 2005 - March 2006
September 2010 - August 2011
Mathias Räther
History / Modern East Asia History
May 2016 - February 2017
July 1996 - June 1997
May 1996 - October 1996
October 2012 - July 2013
April 2013 - February 2014
April 2000 - December 2000
October 2001 - November 2001
Sabine Schenk
Japanese Studies/Art history
October 2010 - August 2011
Elisabeth Scherer
Japanese Studies, Rhetoric
August 2008 - November 2008
July 1992 - March 1993
August 2009 - May 2010
July 1997 - September 1997
July 2001 - January 2002
March 2012 - February 2013
May 1993 - February 1994
March 2015 - June 2015
October 1992 - January 1993
July 2009 - April 2010
April 2010 - November 2010
Kevin Schumacher
Japanese Studies, Art History, Literary Studies
May 2019 - February 2020
March 2012 - February 2013
Charlotte Schäfer
Japanese Studies, Disability Studies
April 2019 - December 2019
Stefanie Schäfer
Japanologie/Japanische Nachkriegsgeschichte
January 2011 - February 2011
June 2000 - September 2000
March 2000 - June 2000
May 1996 - April 1997
March 1995 - February 1996
January 2009
April 2013 - June 2013
July 2003 - March 2004
Christian W. Spang
History
December 2001 - September 2002
September 2000 - December 2000
April 2009 - July 2009
April 2012 - March 2013
June 1997 - August 1997
September 1993 - November 1993
Franziska Steffen
Study of Religion, Japanese Language
April 2015 - March 2016
September 1991 - August 1992
April 2009 - February 2010
Sarah Tanke
Political Science, International Relations, Japanese Studies
August 2017 - October 2017
Kai Oliver Thiele
Business Administration, Mergers & Acquisitions
February 2016 - July 2016
January 2011 - April 2011
Dan Tidten
Law
June 2009 - September 2009
October 1997 - March 1998
February 2015 - July 2015
Gabriele Vogt
Political Science
October 1999 - February 2000
June 1997 - December 1997
November 2001 - September 2002
February 2006 - April 2006
Julia Walkling
Law
April 2002 - January 2003
Torsten Weber
Modern East Asian HistoryScience Communication & Public Relations
June 2006 - March 2007
March 2009 - July 2009
September 2015 - December 2015
April 1997 - December 1997
September 2013 - May 2014
March 2009 - April 2009
September 2007 - February 2008
Alexander P. Witzke
Regional Science of Japan, business studies
August 2010 - September 2011
Raymond Yamamoto
Japanese Studies, International Relations
September 2014 - March 2015
Matthias Urs Zachmann
Japanese and Chinese Studies
November 2002 - December 2003
Ineke Zimmermann
Japanese Studies
September 2018 - February 2019