Advisory Council
Katrin Abfalter
Katrin Abfalter received her Master's degree in Nordic Philology from the LMU Munich. In 2017, she suddenly started developing games from one day to the next. from one day to the next, she started developing games. After her nomination for the Spiel-des-Jahres-German Young Game Designer Scholarship in 2018, she decided to, to make her work as a game designer her main profession. At the same She also joined the SAZ at the same time. Since then, every year she has been implementing several projects with different publishers.
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Daniel Bernsen
Daniel Bernsen is a history and French teacher. He lives in Koblenz. He has been a member of SAZ since 2017. In addition to developing simple family games, he is particularly interested in the topic of history in games, as well as the connection between games and learning. He has been hosting the podcast Das spielende Klasszimmer, which focuses specifically on this topic, since 2023.
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Peter Jürgensen
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Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn has been working internationally as a freelance game and production agent, game designer, project consultant, and coach in the game industry for over 10 years. After studying theater, film, and television, he spent over two decades working in TV, film, and events. He worked as a producer, director, editor, dramaturge, project and festival manager, and author of various formats, including under contract and on behalf of MGM, Universal, Senator Film, ARD, and ZDF.
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Paul Schulz
Paul Schulz studied psychology and landscape ecology in Greifswald and now works as a sustainability scientist in this German Hanseatic city. In his spare time, he has been organizing public game nights there for many years, and since 2016 he has been inventing games himself, for which he received the young game designer scholarship from the Spiel des Jahres jury in 2017.
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Anja Wrede
The trained educator lives in Berlin and has published more than 130 games with various publishers in Germany and abroad. One focus is on children's games, another on family games that are easy to learn. For many years, she has been giving workshops and lectures on the subject of GAMES, PLAYING, and developing GAMES. In all formats, she emphasizes interaction and playful encounters. She has been a member of the SAZ since 2000. Anja Wrede represents the SAZ in the section Socioculture and Cultural Education of the German Cultural Council.
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