Felix Zimmermann

Felix Zimmermann is a consultant for games culture, political education and extremism at the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

He studied communication science, history, and public history in Münster and Cologne. From 2018 to 2022, he was a doctoral fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne and worked on his dissertation on atmospheric experiences of the past in digital games.

In addition to his full-time occupation with digital games, he conducts research on games as part of experience-oriented historical cultures and on the atmospheric and memory-cultural potential of the medium. He is also an observer and commentator on the games industry and has been publishing articles on games culture since 2012.

From 2013 to 2015, he was active at the campus radio station “Radio Q” at the University of Münster. With the video game magazine “Konsole” he was awarded the Campusradiopreis of the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW at the end of 2015. From October 2013 to September 2018 he held various positions at WDR 3, from October 2015 to September 2018 in the editorial department Jazz & World. From 2017 to 2020, he was honorary managing director of the Radio Jazz Research association. From 2016 to the end of 2020, he was a member of the Steering Committee of the research group Geschichtswissenschaft und Digitale Spiele (Historical Science and Digital Games)

_{(Last edited: May 2022)}

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(English-language publications only. See full publications list here.)

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