Joachim Schätz is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of German at UC Berkeley (Fall 2026 and Spring 2027), supported by an FWF Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship.
He is a film and media scholar with a focus on useful cinema and the poetics/politics of comedy. His current project, Educational Film Comedy. Laughing and/about Learning, brings these two areas of interest together. It is dedicated to exploring how humor been utilized and...
