Outside the Club
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- 2015
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About Outside the Club
Outside the Club is an independent German film and television production company and visual effects studio based in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. Its work combines original fiction development with an in-house VFX operation, spanning feature films, television series and online formats. The production slate emphasizes genre storytelling, including thrillers, mystery, science fiction, chamber thrillers and dark dramedy.
The company’s early collaboration began in 2015 with online formats such as Vivi & Denny. Its breakthrough followed with Wishlist, a mystery-thriller web series created for the ARD/ZDF youth network funk. The business subsequently incorporated in 2017, developing its activities across both original productions and visual effects services for other producers.
Film and series production
Outside the Club develops, produces and co-produces fiction, with capabilities covering screenplay and story development, directing, cinematography and editorial. Its production work includes the Prime Video Original thriller TRUNK – Locked In, the historical comedy-drama series Haus Kummerveldt, the ARD comedy pilot Almania and the ProSieben mystery-horror feature Schattenmoor. TRUNK – Locked In received worldwide streaming distribution across more than 220 countries.
The studio’s creative and post-production offering also includes post-production supervision, sound design and original score composition. This breadth connects its filmmaking activities with the technical and creative requirements of finishing film and television projects.
Visual effects
The in-house VFX studio supplies concept art, previsualization, postvisualization, CG characters, digital environments, FX simulation and compositing. Its services extend to on-set VFX supervision, VFX producing and final vendor delivery.
External VFX credits include the first three seasons of How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), alongside Buba, Ze Network, Die Wespe, Oderbruch, The Assessment and Sweet Disaster. Across its production and VFX activities, the company works on projects for cinema, public and commercial television, subscription streaming platforms and digital video audiences.
More about Outside the Club
Founders and leadership
- The studio was founded by filmmaker Marc Schießer, producer and cinematographer Tobias “Tui” Lohf, and composer/actor Marcel Becker-Neu.
- Tobias Lohf and Marc Schießer are the managing directors. Becker-Neu served as a co-managing director from 2017 to 2021 and remains associated as an authorized representative and composer.
- VFX Supervisor Yannik Heß heads the in-house visual effects studio.
Recognition
- Wishlist received the Grimme-Preis for Innovation and the Deutscher Fernsehpreis Young Talents Förderpreis in 2017. The series also received the Webvideopreis Deutschland.
- Haus Kummerveldt, co-produced with Goldstoff Filme for ARD/Arte, received the Grimme-Preis Spezial in 2024.
Production roots
The founders deliberately established their production infrastructure outside Germany’s customary media hubs. The report also records their participation as fellows of the Mediengründerzentrum NRW.
Notable credits
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Where Outside the Club is based
- Heinz-Fangman-Str. 2-4, Haus 5 (W-tec Technologiezentrum), 42287 WuppertalWuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Wuppertal office
HeadquartersSole operating headquarters and production facility at the W-tec Technology Center.
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