Graduate Seminar in Theatre Studies at Keio University

Ishimi Shu

Academic Career
2015 M.A. at Keio University
2018 – Studies at Leipzig University
with the research fellowship of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Position
2015 - 2016 Assistant of the Faculty of German Letters at the Keio University

Main Arears of Research
The Political, catastrophes, grief, spectres and landscape

Publications (in Japanese)
  • 2015 »To make theatre politically: Jan Deck and Angelika Sieburg “Politisch Theater Machen: Neue Artikulationsformen des Politischen in den Darstellenden Künsten (Research Trends) «
     in Quadrante (16) pp.291 - 293, Institute of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
  • 2016 »Fatzer as Event – Interruption in Bertolt Brecht’s “Fatzer«
     in Kenkyu Nempo (33) pp.10 – 38, Faculty of German Letters at the Keio University.
  • 2016 »Possibility of Theatre of Grief – the performance analysis of Elfriede Jelinek / Chiten “No Light. (Kein Licht.)”«
     in Kenkyu Nempo (33) pp.10 – 38, Faculty of German Letters at the Keio University.
  • 2017 »The War of Landscapes – Spectral body in Heiner Müller‘s “The Mission (Der Auftrag)”«
     in Hiyoshi-Studies for German Studies (56) pp. 107-136, Keio University.
  • 2019 »The re-discovered landscape and its historicality - Heiner Müller's "Mauser"«
     in Kenkyu Nempo (36) pp.1 – 27, Faculty of German Letters at the Keio University.
  • 2021 »The Landscape differing from here and now - Heiner Müller's "The Hamlet machine" (Die Hamletmaschine)«
     in "Re-question the Culture"
  • 2021 »The Landscape as "empty middle" - Müller's "Despoiled Shore Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts" (Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landschaft mit Argonauten)«
     in Kenkyu Nempo (38) pp.1 – 28, Faculty of German Letters at the Keio University.

Conference Presentations
  • 2015 »Stimme und Trauerarbeit. Am Beispiel von Chitens “Kein Licht.«
      in the JSPS-Symposium (Un)vernehmbare Stimmen, Keio University
  • 2016 »Die Geschichte beschreiben. Am Beispiel ›Nagasaki Aufführen‹ von Marebito-no-Kai«
      in DFG-Symposium Die Macht der Gefühle – Schauplätze des Fremden. Theater transkulturell und transmedial, Leipzig University.
  • 2017 »Constitution of Testimony – the performing analysis of Milo Rau “Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun"«(in Japanese)
      in Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Theatre Research, Keio University.
  • 2018 »The Landscape in the theatre – with the example of Heiner Müller«(in Japanese)
      in Annual Conference of Geibun Gakkai, Keio University.
  • 2018 »Translation and Representation – the performing analysis of Gotscheff’s “The Persians«(in Japanese)
      in Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Theatre Research, Kobe Shoin Women's University.
  • 2019 »Verfremdung und Landschaft nach der Katastrophe: »Fukushima Aufführen« von der Theatergruppe Marebito-no-Kai«(in German)
      in International Brecht Society 16th Symposium in University Leipzig

Translations(German / Japanese) (extracts)
  • 2016 Ligeti György’s Libretto
  • 2017 Subtitle translation of “Werther!” (Dir. N. Stemann)
  • 2017 Adam Czirak “Shadows of Vision” in “Schattentrilogie”
     in Naoko Tanaka. Schatten Trilogie, ed. by Astrid Hackel, Berlin. (Japanese)
  • 2018 Subtitle translation of “An Enemy of the People” (Dir. Th. Ostermeier)
  • 2021 Müller's Spectres
     in Kenkyu Nempo (Special volume: Translating) pp.1 – 31, Faculty of German Letters at the Keio University.