Website www.kurzgesagt.org Years active 2013—Present Total views 215,713,345 | Channel Kurzgesagt Subscribers 3,864,255 | |
Genre Education Animation Science | ||
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (previously Kurzgesagt) is a Munich-based YouTube channel producing animated educational videos. First founded by Philipp Dettmer in 2013, the channel has now amassed over 3 million subscribers. Their videos are uploaded around once or twice a month and revolve around various political, philosophical and scientific subjects such as the Big Bang and the Refugee Crisis. Their videos also usually contain ducks and many references to pop culture, such as references to Doctor Who, Star Wars, Pokémon and Rick and Morty. Kurzgesagt uses a visual format of presenting information, such as color-coding immune system cells to show their functions. Their videos are usually 5-10 minutes long.
The title video is a zoom out starting from a single oxygen atom, to molecules, to animal cells, to a bird embryo, which leads to the Earth with the "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" title.
The name derives from the German kurz gesagt, meaning 'in brief' or 'in a nutshell'.
Kurzgesagt also has a patreon page, a crowd-funding site for their development
The team is currently working on an App for tablets which has the purpose of explaining the immune system, which was expected to be available somewhere in June of 2016 but hasn't been released yet.