lecture
Film & Humor: eine Scherzensangelegenheit
Lecture by Olivier Samter
Language: German • 60min
12.03.2026, 18:30 Theater praesent free entry
What is funny in movies? What isn’t? And what is it actually okay to laugh at? There are no easy answers to these and many other pressing questions about contemporary humor. Swiss film journalist and comic artist Olivier Samter has them nonetheless.
In a humorous keynote speech, this lover of charming nonsense explains where really good movie jokes come from, accurately analyzes Austrian cinema (please forgive him for this), and explores the liminal spaces between comics and film, Zurich and Innsbruck, funny and not funny.
If you don’t laugh here… you just have a different sense of humor.
After the lecture (60 min), we will move to the Leokino for the fantastic Udo Kier special!
© Lea Reutimann
Olivier Samter is a freelance comic artist and film journalist. He sits on the board of the Swiss Film Journalism Association, where he advocates for the visibility of film criticism. He writes and draws for various Swiss media outlets, including the Tages-Anzeiger, the Zürichsee-Zeitung, and Liselotte’s Pfui-Journal. In 2020, he was named one of the 30 best Swiss journalists under the age of 30 for his work.