Because through teaching, not only the students but also the teachers are constantly challenged anew and have to deal intensively with the material and the further development of the teaching topics. For Nils Loof, learning is an important part of his teaching at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts and is part of the ongoing development process. If you as a teacher try to make your lessons as interesting and comprehensible as possible, you will inevitably have to deal with the topics in depth on a regular basis. In the process, connections become clearer and you gain a deeper understanding of the material. By asking questions and answering the students' questions, one's own thought processes are also stimulated and one becomes aware of new ideas and connections. But you don't only learn professionally through teaching. You also improve your pedagogical skills. You learn to respond to the different needs and abilities of the students and to find individual learning paths. You get a better understanding of the learning processes and learn how to convey learning content in the most meaningful and entertaining way. Overall, teaching is therefore an opportunity for all involved to learn and develop.

"If you have been working as a filmmaker for a long time, you have a wide range of knowledge. You know a lot about some things. In other places you have acquired a strange half-knowledge. In the apprenticeship you then stumble upon your half-knowledge again and you have the chance to turn it into knowledge."

Nils Loof sees "eternal learning" as an important part of life's content. Perpetual learning goes beyond the professional aspect. For Loof, it is also a central part of personal growth. Those who constantly dedicate themselves to new topics and deal with other perspectives and opinions can broaden their own world view and improve their ability to empathise and understand. Nils Loof also tries to pass on this attitude to his students. In addition to the creative, artistic and technical tools of filmmaking, the will to develop and learn independently is an important component of his teaching.

"It is exciting when you have to analyse your own design and artistic work and then work it up for the students. At first I thought it would lose a bit of the magic, but the opposite is the case. You have a lot of new insights and yet sometimes you don't quite understand why you did things."