The Spotlight Taiwan Festival opening was celebrated on July 7 in the university's most solemn hall, the festival room at "Neue Aula". Welcoming remarks by university president Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler, by ERCCT director Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert, and by the head of the Taipei Representative Office in the FRG at the time H.E. Mrs. Agnes Hwa-Yue CHEN, were followed by a lecture by Prof. Dr. Peter Hoffmann and a dance performance by Ms. Chang I-Wen. 

Later in the evening, the film programme of the festival took off at local cinema Kino Arsenal with a screening of The Rice Bomber 白米炸彈客. 

The very first part of the weeks Taiwan culture programme, however, was a photographic exhibition on the work of Taiwan's photographer-pioneer Teng Nan-Kuang in the entrance hall of "Neue Aula", organized by CCKF-ERCCT Residend Fellow Sheu Jyh-shyang 許智翔. 

Music and Literature loomed large in the programme of day 4 of Spotlight Taiwan in Tübingen, Thursday July 10th. A seemingly very happy lunch gathering at Restaurant Mauganeschtle opened the programme for our contributing guests, and at 6 p.m. Prof. Hoffmann held a lecture aquainting the local public with taiwanese literature and its history - "Between Multiculturality and the Search for Identity - Some Remarks on the History of Taiwanese Literature". Prof. Hoffmann's lecture was followed by yet another hightlight: the concert by the Taiwanese combo A Moving Sound, famous for their very creative blending of tradition and modernity and the impressive voice of lead singer Mia Hsieh.