Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedmann is a script- and headwriter for award-winning television series and author of comics and Graphic Novels for Disney, Egmont, and Carlsen. As a storytelling consultant, he has worked for institutions and companies like Microsoft, the German Federal Ministry of Environment and the German Soccer Federation DFB, creating educational and interactive online formats.
He teaches serial, transmedial, and interactive storytelling at the University of Hildesheim, the Filmuniversity Potsdam, the Film-Academy Baden-Württemberg, and the Hamburg Media School. In 2016, he received his doctorate magna cum laude on Transmedial Storytelling. Since 2017 he has been heading the M.A. course in Serial Storytelling at the International Film School Cologne (ifs).