Published: February 5th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Theresa Huemmer carefully puts her business card on the table. „Greeting the Taiwanese way,“ she adds. She never used a business card in Germany, but here it’s like a handshake. In the three years that she has been head of the Goethe-Institut Taipei, Theresa Huemmer has received hundreds of business cards. She is in regular contact with around fifty cardholders to organize cultural projects for the Goethe-Institut.