Gundolf S.Freyermuth,Ph.D.,is a writer,director and since 2004 Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the ifs international film school,Cologne. Since 2010, he is also one of the founding directors of the Cologne Game Lab.
He studied Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin and wrote his Ph.D.thesis on digital aesthetics.Prior to his academic career,Freyermuth worked in the media;inter alia as editor for the monthly TransAtlantik,reporter for the weekly stern,head reporter for Tempo Magazine and for more than a decade as a freelance writer from the US West Coast.He has published three novels,eleven books of non-fiction and appr.500 papers,essays and feature articles. He also writes movie scripts and directs documentaries.
His academic research and writing focuses on digital audiovisuality and storytelling, cross-and transmediality,games and network culture.Freyermuth holds dual German-American citizenship and currently lives in Berlin and Cologne,Germany.
Recent Publications
Academic:
“Movies and Games:Audiovisual Storytelling in the Digital Age”.In: S.Z.F.E.(University of Theatre and Film,Budapest,Ed.),New Skills for New Jobs,New Skills for Old Jobs:Film and Media Schools in the Digital Revolution, Budapest,forthcoming Winter 2011.
“Edges & Nodes / Cities & Nets:The History and Theories of Networks and What They Tell Us about Urbanity in the Digital Age.” In:Transcultural Spaces:Challenges of Urbanity,Ecology,and the Environment in the New Millennium. Ed.StefanL.Brandt,Winfried Fluck and Frank Mehring,REAL-Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Vol.26, Narr: Tuebingen, 2010, S.55-73.
Audiovisual:
Wolfgang Petersen-Back to the Boat.Documentary,48 Min.Written and Directed. On:Das Boot (Two- Disc Collector's Set),BluRay,Sony America.US July 5,2011.
Germany September 15, 2011. Wolfgang Petersen–Mein Leben,mein Werk (My Life, my Work). Documentary, 22 Min.Written and Directed.On: Das Boot-Steelbook(30th Anniversary-Edition, 3Discs, BluRay), Eurovideo:Germany September 15, 2011.
Literary:
Fluchtpunkt Hollywood:Sieben Porträts deutscher Filmemigranten.Fuego: ePub-Edition; CCR Writers Inc.:Kindle-Edition,August 2011(A collection of portraits of German-Jewish film émigrés in Hollywood,originally published in various German magazines between 1985 and 2000).
"Daswar’s." Letzte Worte mit Charles Bukowski.Fuego: ePub-Edition; CCR Writers Inc.: Kindle-Edition,August 2011(A portrait of the American writer Charles Bukowski,based on the text of the coffee table-book edition:Rasch und Röhring,Hamburg,1996).