Gundolf S. Freyermuth

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Gundolf S. Freyermuth (2014)

Gundolf S. Freyermuth (born January 3, 1955 in Hanover ) is a German - American media scientist and journalist .

Life

Freyermuth is professor for "Media and Game Studies " at the TH Köln and - together with Björn Bartholdy - founding director of the Cologne Game Lab .

He studied general and comparative literature (AVL), German , American and history at the Free University of Berlin and completed his studies with an MA. 1985-1990 he was a research assistant Eberhard Lammert at the Institute of AVL FU Berlin, 2004, he received his doctorate in Lämmert to Dr. phil. From 2004 to 2014 he taught as a professor for applied media studies (formerly named: Aesthetics and Communication ) at the ifs international film school in Cologne , where he continues to teach media studies.

In 2010 Freyermuth founded the Cologne Game Lab together with Björn Bartholdy . Since 2012 he has been publishing the series "Bild und Bit. Studies on digital media culture" at transcript Verlag - together with Lisa Gotto . Since 2015 he has been - together with Björn Bartholdy - chairman of the program committee of the international computer game conference " Clash of Realities ", which takes place annually at the TH Köln . Since 2019 he has been a member of the award committee "Digital Games and Interactive Contents" of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW .

Prior to that, he was a member of the Film Funding Committee of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW from 2009-2010 and from 2011 to 2018 he was the representative of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW for the development of new media funding and chairman of the advisory committee of the pilot funding project for innovative audiovisual media content. From 2008 to 2010 he was also a member of the jury for the Innovation Award of the Commissioner for Culture and Media .

Parallel to his academic work, Freyermuth has been working as a specialist author for literature, film and digital media since 1980. 1981–1982 he was editor of the cultural magazine TransAtlantik , published by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Gaston Salvatore , 1983 to 1990 reporter for stern magazine , 1992–1994 chief reporter for Tempo magazine . Between 1994 and 2004 he worked as a freelance writer in the USA.

He published several non-fiction books and novels as well as around 400 articles, reports and essays etc. a. for Berliner Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , Los Angeles Times , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Tagesspiegel , Die Welt , Financial Times Germany , Der Spiegel , Die Zeit , Cinema .

Freyermuth is a German-American citizen, married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The way out. (Novel), 368 pages. Rasch and Röhring Verlag. Hamburg 1989. (Kindle Edition 2010).
  • Journey into the lost past. On the trail of German emigrants (1933–1940). 340 pages. Rasch and Röhring Verlag. Hamburg 1990. (TB dtv, Munich 1993).
  • The transferee. Volker Schlöndorff in Babelsberg. 132 pages. Ch. Links Verlag. Berlin 1993.
  • End player. (Reports, essays, stories). 287 pages. Edition Tiamat. Berlin 1993.
  • Spy under the stars. Eavesdropping on leading actors. 231 pages. Ch. Links Verlag. Berlin 1994.
  • Cyberland. A guided tour through the high-tech underground. 284 pages. Rowohlt Berlin. Berlin 1996. (TB rororo, Reinbek 1998).
  • "That's it". Final words with Charles Bukowski . (With Michael Montfort [photos]). 144 pages. Rasch and Röhring. Hamburg 1996. (Kindle Edition 2011)
  • Bogart's brother. (Roman, pseudonym John Cassar), 396 pages. Reclam Leipzig. Leipzig 1997. (TB Ullstein, Berlin 1998).
  • Pearls for the sows. (Roman, pseudonym Peter Johannes) 369 pages. Eichborn. Frankfurt 1999. (TB Ullstein, Berlin 2001).
  • Communicette 2.0. 136 pages. Publisher Heinz Heise. Hanover 2002.
  • Hollywood Vanishing Point. Seven portraits of German film emigrants. Kindle Edition 2011.
  • Image values. Visuality in digital media culture. Edited by Gundolf S. Freyermuth and Lisa Gotto . 338 pages. transcript. Bielefeld 2012.
  • Serious games, exergames, exerlearning. For the transmedialization and gamification of knowledge transfer. Edited by Gundolf S. Freyermuth and Lisa Gotto and Fabian Wallenfels. 473 pages. transcript. Bielefeld 2013.
  • New Game Plus: Perspectives in Game Studies. Genres - Arts - Discourses. Edited by Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth and Lisa Gotto . 415 pages. transcript, Bielefeld 2015.
  • Games | Game Design | Game Studies. An introduction. 277 pages. transcript, Bielefeld 2015.
  • Games | Game Design | Game Studies. An Introduction. With Contributions by André Czauderna, Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman. 290 pages. transcript, Bielefeld 2015.
  • The television operator. Wolfgang Menge's transmedia work: Critical and Documentary Perspectives. Edited by Gundolf S. Freyermuth and Lisa Gotto . 772 pages. transcript, Bielefeld 2016.
  • Studying games - what, how where. State courses in the field of digital games. Edited by Björn Bartholdy , Linda Breitlauch , André Czauderna and Gundolf S. Freyermuth. 710 pages. transcript, Bielefeld 2019.
  • Playing utopia. Futures in Digital Games. Edited by Benjamin Beil , Gundolf S. Freyermuth and Hanns Christian Schmidt. 332 pages. transcript, Bielefeld 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.th-koeln.de/haben/gundolf.freyermuth/
  2. ↑ http://www.colognegamelab.de/institute/people/gundolf-s-freyermuth/
  3. ↑ http://www.filmschule.de/menschen/professoren/
  4. ↑ http://bildundbit.com
  5. ↑ http://www.clashofrealities.com
  6. ↑ https://www.filmstiftung.de/ueber-uns/foerderausschuesse/digitale-spiele-interaktiv-inhalte/
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmstiftung.de
personal data
SURNAME Freyermuth, Gundolf S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American media scientist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover