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Frei Otto
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German architect (1925-2015)
OverviewAI-generated
Frei Otto was a German male figure whose professional activity spanned from 1952 to 2006. Born on May 31, 1925, he passed away on March 9, 2015. His official website is freiotto.com.
In the context of music, he is associated with the genres of comedy and German music. Open Library records him as an author with twelve works, including *Abschied in Zermatt*, *Beim Wirt zum "Scharfen Eck"*, *Berliner Herbst*, *Bis sich Nacht in die Augen senkt*, and *Die Hintergründe der Jurakrise*. Crossref lists five works attributed to him.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1924
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Abschied in Zermatt
- Beim Wirt zum "Scharfen Eck"
- Berliner Herbst
- Bis sich Nacht in die Augen senkt
- Die Hintergründe der Jurakrise
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1948-07-22
Discography
- Otto1973
- Otto (Die Zweite)1974
- Ottocolor1978
- Otto versaut Hamburg1981
- Otto’s Sammelsurium1982
- Otto1984
- Das vierte Programm1992
- Otto erzählt "Peter und der Wolf"2001
- Only Otto2002
- 100 Jahre Otto2006
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 9
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/FREI+OTTO">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,696x
- On the Origin of Cancer Cells
· 1956 · cited 11,439x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,174x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Frei Paul Otto , ( 1925-05-31 ) 31 May 1925, Siegmar, Saxony , Germany
- Died
- 9 March 2015 (2015-03-09) (aged 89), Leonberg , Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Occupation
- Architect
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Family name
- Otto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of death
- Leonberg
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Munich Olympic Stadium
- Field of work
- roof
- Movement
- high-tech architecture
- Conflict
- World War II
- Official website
- www.freiotto.com
- Work location
- Munich
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- Commons category
- Frei Otto
- date of birth
- 1925-05-31
- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- date of death
- 2015-03-09
- name in native language
- Frei Otto
- has works in the collection
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- start of work period
- 1952-01-01
- end of work period
- 2006-01-01
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Frei Paul Otto ( German: [fʁaɪ ˈʔɔtoː]; 31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Otto won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2006 and was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2015, shortly before his death.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frei Otto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.