Pascal Klassert

Pascal Klassert is a doctoral student and scientific staff member at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig, Germany. He joined the institute in June 2025 to work on the joint project Screening National Socialism: Ideology and Everyday Life in German Cinema 1933-1945. His role involves researching film as a tool of Nazi propaganda in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Education:

• Goethe University Frankfurt (2016–2023): MA in History, Political Science, and Sociology. Theses: Traces of colonial knowledge production: Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (BA) and German Limes research in the 19th century: a boundary marker of historiographical scientific ideals (MA).
• Goethe University Frankfurt (2019–2025): BA in Sociology and Philosophy. Thesis: Citizen science and the epistemic function of intuition.

Research Interests: Klassert specializes in transnational history of science, 19th/20th-century Limes archaeology, sociological analyses of citizen science, and film under National Socialism. His current project examines cinematic Germanization policies in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, assessing ideological dissemination through entertainment media.

Awards:

• 2023: Research fellowship from the Roman-Germanic Commission for work on international collaborations in 19th-century Limes research.