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Gundolf S. Freyermuth
Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Ph.D., is a professor of media and game studies and a founding director of the Cologne Game Lab at the Technical University of Cologne in Germany. Additionally, he serves as an associate professor of comparative media studies at the ifs internationale filmschule köln. Beyond academia, he has extensive experience as an editor, reporter, scriptwriter and documentary filmmaker. In the last decade, he has secured and executed numerous third-party-funded research projects with combined budgets in the seven-figure Euro range. Recently, he was awarded an Opus Magnum grant from the Volkswagen Foundation to complete his monograph Play: Audiovisuality in the Modern Era-Theater, Film, Television, Games. Freyermuth co-edits the Studies of Digital Media Culture series with transcript publishing. He has authored or (co-) edited over twenty fiction and non-fiction books and published approximately five hundred papers, essays and reportages. His most recent publications include Games | Game Design | Game Studies. An Introduction (transcript, 2015) and as co-editor Playing Utopia (transcript, 2019), Paratextualizing Games (transcript, 2021) and Playful Materialities (transcript, 2022).
Contact: TH Koeln – Cologne Game Lab, Schanzenstraße 28, 51063 Cologne, Germany.