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Ortwin Freyermuth
Occupation(s)Entertainment lawyer[1]
Film producer

Ortwin Freyermuth is a German American entertainment lawyer and film producer.[2][3] He is mostly noted for having been the CEO of film production company Capella Films[3][4] and for producing the 1997 director's cut version of Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot.[5][6]

Biography

Ortwin Freyermuth is the brother of German journalist and author Gundolf S. Freyermuth.[7] He studied law at the University of Göttingen and at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed his Master degree with a thesis on film distribution and copyright law in 1986.[3][8] In the early 1990s, he was part of a group of German film producers who pioneered a new business model, acquiring the production and distribution rights for several Hollywood films with both financial and popular success.[3][4] After having previously served as a legal advisor to Chris Roberts' Ascendant Pictures[9] and other production companies, he founded Cloud Imperium Games with Roberts in 2011[10] to create the video game Star Citizen.[11][12]

Academic Works

  • Deutsch, Erwin; Schneider-Freyermuth, Ortwin; Koenig, Ulrich (January 1985). Die Vervielfältigung von Filmen durch Hochschulen und ihre Einrichtungen : rechtliche Probleme untersucht am Beispiel des IWF- Filmverleihs (in German). Berlin; Tokyo: Springer (published 1985). ISBN 978-3-540-15728-1. OCLC 38444169.
  • Ortwin S Freyermuth (1986). Film distribution and modern video technology : the shift of motion picture distribution into the private sphere and its impact on copyright protection (Thesis (LL. M.)). Los Angeles: University of California. OCLC 16163525.

Filmography

Producer

References

  1. ^ "Ortwin Sam Freyermuth, Attorney". Lawyer.com. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  2. ^ "State Bar of CA :: Ortwin Sam Freyermuth". calbar.ca.gov (Membership Record). The State Bar of California. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b c d Barth, Ariane (14 June 1993). Augstein, Rudolf; et al. (eds.). "Hier ist was von Wildwest. SPIEGEL-Redakteurin Ariane Barth über die Deutschen in Hollywood (Teil III: Produzenten)". Der Spiegel (in German) (24/1993). Hamburg: SPIEGEL-VERLAG, RUDOLF AUGSTEIN GMBH & CO. KG: 125, 128–129. ISSN 0038-7452. OCLC 4927901. Archived from the original on 15 March 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2014. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  4. ^ a b Yonover, Neil S. (25 February 1994). "Capella finds the right pitch". Variety (February 25th, 1994). Los Angeles; New York: Penske Business Media. ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 1768958. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Archibald, Kevin (5 May 2000). "Das Boot". Imagine Games Network (Review). IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Das Boot (1981) - Release Info". IMDB. Archived from the original on 7 December 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Freyermuth, Gundolf S. (March 1994). "Quellennachweise und Danksagungen". Spion unter Sternen: Lauschangriffe auf Hauptdarsteller (in German) (1st ed.). Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag. p. 231. ISBN 978-3-86-153068-8. OCLC 243774854. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Freyermuth, Ortwin S (1986). Film distribution and modern video technology : the shift of motion picture distribution into the private sphere and its impact on copyright protection (Thesis (LL. M.)). Los Angeles: University of California. OCLC 16163525.
  9. ^ "The Team". Ascendant Pictures. n.d. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ Kubba, Sinan (11 September 2012). "Wing Commander creator returns to gaming, unveils new project next month". Joystiq. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ Nezik, Ann-Kathrin (4 August 2014). "Der 49-Millionen-Dollar-Mann". Der Spiegel (in German) (32/2014). Hamburg: SPIEGEL-VERLAG, RUDOLF AUGSTEIN GMBH & CO. KG. ISSN 0038-7452. OCLC 4927901. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "About us". Cloud Imperium Games. 2014. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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