Jannick Scherrer
Jannick obtained her double-BA in Japanology and German literature and linguistics in 2020. In her studies she has developed a particular interest in Japan’s use of self-portrayal as a kind of political strategy during times of early contact with western countries. Since 2017 she has been working as a student assistant for an EU grants project at the University of Zurich, called ‘Time in Medieval Japan’, in which researchers are analysing how the concept of time shaped the lives of people from medieval Japan and vice versa. In 2018, she travelled from Kagoshima in the South all the way up to Sapporo in the North, where Jannick visited the beautiful Daisetsuzan National Park. She is an enthusiastic visitor of the annual Ginmaku Japanese Film Festival in Zurich, where she had the pleasure of seeing one of her now favourite movies, An, by Naomi Kawase (2015).