Work results

Academic Publications

2018

• Science and Technology Studies and Role-Playing Games, in: Deterding, S., & Zagal, J. (eds.), Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations, Routledge.

• Live-Action Role-Playing Games. Other Traditions, Bienia and Hitchens, in: Deterding, S., & Zagal, J. (eds.), Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations, Routledge.

2017

• Larp: Silberhochzeit, Bienia and Schlickmann (eds.), MittelPunkt Aufsatzsammlung 2017, Zauberfeder Verlag.

2016

• Role Playing Materials, Dissertation, Zauberfeder Verlag. Download: Link
• Larp und die (anderen) Künste, Bienia and Schlickmann (eds.), MittelPunkt Aufsatzsammlung 2016, Zauberfeder Verlag.

2015

• Larp: Zeug, Bienia and Schlickmann (eds.), MittelPunkt Aufsatzsammlung 2015, Zauberfeder Verlag.
• Costume Agency in German Larp. in “DiGRA ’15 – Proceedings of the 2015 DiGRA International Conference”. Digital Games Research Association, May, 2015″. Volume 12.
• ‘Exploring nonhuman perspectives in live-action role-play‘. In “Performance and Performativity in Fandom,” edited by Lucy Bennett and Paul J. Booth, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0631.

2014

• ‘Larp: Kommunikation’, Bienia (ed.), MittelPunkt Aufsatzsammlung 2014, Zauberfeder Verlag.

2013

• ‘Mythoskonstruktion im Liverollenspiel’, Trocha and Walowski (eds.), Homo mythicus. Mythische Identitätsmuster, Frank Timme.
• ‘Stimulation denn Simulation: Ist Larp hedonistisch?’, Zaremba (ed.), hedo/art/scenes. Hedonismus in Kunst und Jugendszenen, kopaed.
• ‘Das Computer-Rollenspiel-Genre’, Bigl and Stoppe (eds.), Playing with Virtuality. Theories and Methods of Computer Game Studies, PL.
• ‘Larp: Nur ein Spiel?’, Bienia and Dombrowski (eds.), MittelPunkt Aufsatzsammlung 2013, Zauberfeder Verlag.

2012

• ‘Why Do They Larp? Motivations for Larping in Germany’, in: Bowman and Vanek (eds.), Wyrd Con Companion 2012, p. 97-103.
• ‘Literatur als Aktant’, in: Hensel and Beil (eds.), Navigationen Magazin, University of Siegen
• ‘How to become a god … a polemic or a toolbox’, in: Dombrowski (ed.), MittelPunkt Aufsatzsammlung 2012 ‘Larp und ich’, Zauberfeder Verlag.

2011

• Writing Plot. Suggestions from Narratology. in: Andrea Castellani and J. Tuomas Harviainen (eds.), 1 ed., Larp Frescos. Affreschi antichi e moderni sui giochi di ruolo dal vivo. Vol. II , pp. 91-102. Larp Symposium: Firenze.
• BAM! ‘From Dusk till Dawn’: Gattungstypologische Betrachtung eines Nachtlarpies, in: Fandom Observer No. 266, 8/2011, pp. 14-15. Online: http://www.fandomobserver.de/pdf/266.pdf
  
• ‘Plot Schreiben – Anregungen aus der Erzähltheorie’, in: Dombrowski (ed.), MittelPunkt Aufsatzsammlung 2011 Larp: Über den Tellerrand, Zauberfeder Verlag.
  Review of the book by J.T. Harviainen: “Rafael Bienia’s “Plot Schreiben” is this year’s highlight – a concise new contribution on the creation of game narratives.”

Selected non-academic articles

• LARPzeit. Sich auf’s Spiel einlassen – Was würde mein Charakter denken? Issue 37. 2012.
• reviews on http://www.zauberwelten-online.de
  

Presentations & Workshops

2017

• International Academic Conference “Consolidation of Society: Larp as a social tool”
  Title: Report on German Educational Larps
  Date: 27. – 29.10.2017
  Place: Minsk, Belarus

• Larp Studies Seminar (Kazimierz Wielki University)
  Title: Future larp design, research and practice: Towards next generations of role playing.
  Date: 29.04.2017
  Place: Pyrkon festival, Poznan, Poland

2016

• Spiele spielen! 3. Mainzer Symposium der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften
  Title: Spieler spielen mit Spielzeug, oder? Eine Aktant-Netzwerkanalyse von Live-Rollenspielen
  Date: 1.10.2016
  Place: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
• Aktuelle Positionen der (inter-)nationalen Partizipations- und Fanforschung
  Title: Latour’s “Networks, societies, spheres” for participation and fan studies
  Date: 20.05.2016
  Place: Philipps-Universität Marburg

2015

• Digital Games Research Association Conference
  Title: Costume Agency in German Larp
  Date: 14.05.2015
  Place: Leuphana University, Lüneburg
• RPG Summit at DiGRA Conference
  Title: A Perspective for Exploring Material Agency in Role-Playing Game Studies
  Date: 16.05.2015
  Place: Leuphana University, Lüneburg

2014

• Games Couch Conference
  Title: Perspektiven des Materiellen auf Digitale Spielewelten
  Date: 2.12.2014
  Place: Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Roxy Kino, Gießen
  Video: YouTube (~43 minutes, German)

2013

• Lectures in the course Digital Media 2013
  Topics: “Digital media”, “Interfaces”, “Video games”, “Creative industry”, “Digital art and literature”
  Date: October – December 2013
  Place: University College Maastricht, the Netherlands
• STAGE#02: Protokolle
  Title: Methoden der Spieleforschung. Protokollieren Ephemerer Spielpraktiken im Liverollenspiel
  Date: 18.10.2013
  Place: University of Cologne, Germany
• DiGRA: DeFragging Game Studies
  Title: Role-Playing Game Studies. A Handbook.
  Role: Selected participant
  Date: 27.08.2013
  Place: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
• mash2013. Making and Sharing. Conference on Audience Creativity
  Role: co-organiser and presenter
  Title: Locations and User-Made Maps in German Live Action Role-Playing Games
  Date: 4.07.2013
  Place: Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Physical and Digital in Games seminar, University of Tampere
  Title: Agency of Game Materials in German larp
  Date: 30.04.2013
  Place: Tampere, Finland
• University of Cologne
  Title: Materials for Computer Role-Playing Games. Connecting Digital and Non-Digital Actors
  Date: 24.1.2013
  Place: Cologne, Germany
• MittelPunkt 2013
  Title: Larpforschung Ziele 2013. Konkretes aus dem Elfenbeinturm
  Title: LIVE! Polish-German Larp Conversations
  Dates: 11. and 12.1.2013
  Place: Limburg an der Lahn, Germany

2012

• European Fandom and Fan Studies Symposium
  Title: Crowdfunding and the Replacement of Investors with Fans
  Date: 10.11.2012
  Place: University of Amsterdam,  the Netherlands
• browsergames forum 2012
  Title: Fanfunding
  Date: 1.11.12
  Place: Offenbach am Main, Germany
• Role-Play Convention
  Title: Workshop on Nordic role-playing studies or ‘Skandinavische Rollenspielforschung für Einsteiger’
  Date: 5.05.2012
  Place: Köln, Germany
• Solmukohta 2012
  Title: Ninja Ethnography: How to gather data during a larp
  Date: 14.04.2012
  Place: Helsinki, Finland
• Role-playing in Games Seminar
  Title: My dissertation project
  Date: 10.04.2012
  Place: University Tampere, Finland
• LevelUp!-Kongress during LearnTec Karlsruhe Rheinstetten 2012.
  Title: Escapism in Role-playing games or ‘Eskapismus als Teil eines gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungsprozesses, Psychologie des Verschwindens, Soziologie des Einnehmens von Rollen‘
  Date: 2.02.2012
  Place: Karlsruhe, Germany
• MittelPunkt 2012. MittelPunkt 2012 is the seventh international Larp conference in Germany.
  Title: Actor-Network Theory in Role-Playing Games
  Date: 15.01.2012
  Place: Mainz, Germany

2011

• Narrative Genres im Internet und in anderen Neuen Medien
  Title: MMORPG – Schmiede der digitalen Narration
  Date: 4.03.2011
  Place: Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany

Teaching

2018

• Integrationskurs German, bfz gGmbH, Aschaffenburg
• diverse German courses (level A1 – B2), bfz gGmbH, Aschaffenburg

2017

• Integrationskurs German, bfz gGmbH, Aschaffenburg
• diverse German courses (level A1 – B2), bfz gGmbH, Aschaffenburg

2016

• Business English, WBS Training AG, Virtual Environment
• Integrationskurs German, bfz gGmbH, Aschaffenburg
• diverse German courses (level A1 – B2), bfz gGmbH, Aschaffenburg

2014

• Tutor Cultural Studies I, University College Maastricht
• Tutor Research & Writing II, Maastricht University
• B.A. supervisor

2013

• Coordinator and PBL Tutor for Digital Media, University College Maastricht
  October – December 2013
• Skills Training (Blog, Wiki), Maastricht University
  September – December 2013
• B.A. supervisor

2012

• PBL Tutor for Digital Media, University College Maastricht
  October – December 2012
• Skills Training (Blog, Wiki, Video editing), Maastricht University
  September – December 2012
• PBL Tutor for Digital Games, Maastricht University
  January – March 2012
• PBL Tutor for Analysis of Literature and Painting, Maastricht University
  March – June 2012

2011

• Skills Training (Blog, Wiki, Video editing), Maastricht University
  September – December 2011
• PBL Tutor for Digital Media, University College Maastricht
  November – December 2011

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