Kathrin Fischer and Lukas Boch work in the Bonn Lab for Analogue Games and Imaginative Play (LAGIP, affiliated to the Religious Studies Department) on various projects relating to games as a cultural asset and teaching method.
Kathrin Fischer conducts research on tabletop role-playing games as a didactic method. She received a degree in Teaching for German and Biology for Grammar and Comprehensive Schools at the University of Cologne and completed her teacher training in Leverkusen. She then worked as a teacher in various schools in NRW and supported QuaLis NRW in developing lessons for German classes. As a Learning Therapist, she is interested in the inclusive approach to learning and the therapeutic potential of games, as well as the topic of tabletop role-playing games as a cultural medium.
Lukas Boch is responsible for modern board games and networking at LAGIP. He studied History and Catholic theology and worked as a research assistant at the Department of Historical Theology and its Didactics at the University of Münster from 2020-2024, where he is currently writing his PhD on the staging of the Middle Ages in modern board games as part of popular (church) history cultures. He is a founding member of Boardgame Historian and co-responsible for the project Mittelalter Digital. In addition to his position at the University of Bonn, he is a research associate at the European Hanseatic Museum in Lübeck, where he is responsible for the exhibition Games machen Mittelalter (Games make the Middle Ages).