Executive board

1^st chairman: Harald Mücke
Harald Mücke lives in Mönchengladbach and is game designer since 1999. His primary occupations are, consultant for the hotel business, operating the mail order site Spielmaterial.de and his company Mücke-Spiele who publishes games of his own, as well as games by other designers. His last game was „Die Weihnachtspinguine“, which he published himself.
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2^nd chairman: Dr. Michael Feldkötter
Michael Feldkötter lives in Mettmann and works as game designer and freelance geographer. He started beeing a game designer in 2005. His last game was „Krawall vorm Stall“, which was published by Ravensburger.
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Treasurer: Christian Beiersdorf

Christian Beiersdorf lives in Freiburg. Since 1990, he has been a game designer; he was working for several game companies for a long time and is currently running the service and licensing agency Projekt Spiel. Beside of his function "Treasurer" he takes care for the website, too. His last game was Haubi‘s verrückte Backstube, which was published as a promotional game for an Austrian bakery chain.
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Advisor for the working group "ALEX Media Prize":
Günter Burkhardt
Günter Burkhardt lives in Gosbach (Southwest of Germany). He is a local councilor and board member at the local sports club. Originally a teacher, he works at home since 2002 and is engaged full time with the development of games. For the ALEX media prize he acts as the main contact for journalists who send in contributions for this award; he is a member of the jury, too. One of his recent publications is "Sealand", the 50th game he has published – this time together with Wolfgang Kramer by Ravensburger.
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Advisor for the working group "Contracts": Stefanie Rohner

Stefanie Rohner lives in Basel (Switzerland); and she has been a game designer since 1983. Together with Christian Wolf, she is running the "Atelier Rohner + Wolf" for innovative product concepts. Stefanie Rohner was a member of the SAZ board for many years and still is the contact person members can turn to, of the working group "Contracts". One of her latest publications – together with Christian Wolf – is the popular radio game ABC DRS3 that is very successful in Switzerland.

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Advisor for the working group "Cultural Council":
Stefan Risthaus
, LL.D.
Stefan Risthaus lives in Wolfsburg; he has been a game designer since 2004, and he is a lawyer in his main profession, specializing in industrial and intellectual property rights. He represents the SAZ at the Council for Sozio-Culture and Cultural Education and at the expert committee "Intellectual Property Rights" of the German Cultural Council. One of his latest game publications is Level X, released by Schmidt Spiele.
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Advisor for the working group "Public Relations":
Ulrich Blum
Ulrich Blum lives in Zurich and from the summer 2011 in Cologne. He is game designer since 2009. In addition, he is an actor and chef. For the SAZ he is involved primarily for contacts with journalists. His last game is Grand Cru, which was published by eggertspiele.
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