Ger­hard Maier

After work­ing in the film and TV industry for over a dec­ade — escort­ing movies and series through their life cycles by scout­ing mar­kets and cre­at­ing press books, art­icles, and reviews — Ger­hard Maier served as edit­or-in-chief of two of Ger­many’s largest point-of-sale enter­tain­ment print pub­lic­a­tions. Since 2014, Ger­hard has put his lifelong obses­sion with TV series to bet­ter use as part of the found­ing trio of Seri­en­camp, Ger­many’s first fest­iv­al and con­fer­ence ded­ic­ated exclus­ively to seri­al storytelling.

As the artist­ic dir­ect­or of Seri­en­camp Fest­iv­al and Seri­en­camp Con­fer­ence, he cur­ates formats, speak­ers, and top­ics and leads the festival’s pro­gram­ming team. When he is not work­ing on Seri­en­camp or cur­at­ing for con­fer­ences like the Reep­er­bahn Fest­iv­al or Input>Output Sym­posi­um, he serves as a guest lec­turer and tutor at film schools and train­ing pro­grams like Mid­point with a strong focus on Gen­er­at­ive AI and it’s impact on the future of the media industries.