Phillip Dettmer is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the YouTube channel, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell." He is also an accomplished member of the film community, as a producer, director, writer, art director, and actor. ^[1]

Dettmer graduated from the Munich University of Applied Sciences. He received a Bachelor's of the Arts degree in 2013.

In June 2010, Dettmer became the founder of Philipp Dettmer Information Design, situated in Munich, where he worked until September 2013.

The company's slogan was, "Information Design with Love."

During his time founding Philipp Detmmer Information Design, he was also an information designer at Selbstandig who operated as lead designer and art director.

He maintained both of these posts until August 2013, when he started Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.

Dettmer's goal by creating this channel was to educate through information design.

He believed this made concepts easy and accessible when presented in a short, understandable edu-film or perhaps an infographic.

What Kurzgesagt prides itself on is making complicated topics easy to understand, while still keeping it as accurate as possible.

It is one biggest science YouTube channels in the world, with now 5.9 million subscribers and 2-5 million average views per video.

In addition to be a founder of one of the most popular educational YouTube channels, Dettmer also has many accolades relating to film and the arts.

He has received credit for his roles as an actor, producer, director and art director for various films, including:

In 2013, Philipp was nominated for and won the Biberach Film Festival's award for "Best Debut" for his role on the film, "Mystery Cache".

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In 2016, Detmerr was again nominated, this time for the European Civis Online Media Prize - Web Videos.

The nominate episode was titled, "European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained"