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Withholding Tax Relief: Statement from German Cultural and Creative Industry Associations
Together with our colleagues from other associations in the German cultural and creative industries, we welcome the planned increase in the tax-exempt threshold from 10,000 euros to 100,000 euros per year for royalty payments to foreign authors and rights holders, and at the same time call for further action.
Game of the Year Jury: The nominated games 2026
The Jury "Spiel des Jahres e.V." association announced this year's nominations and recommendation lists on May 19, 2026. Three games each were nominated for "Spiel des Jahres", "Kinderspiel des Jahres" and "Kennerspiel des Jahres".
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Göttingen Game Designers' Meeting 2026
We mourn the loss of Reinhold Wittig
In future, VG WORT will use the board game database of the Altenburg Game Archive, run by the Spielen Foundation, as an additional reference for determining library royalties
75 years of the Nuremberg Spielwarenmesse: Congratulations!
Bureaucratic Monster: Withholding Tax for Foreign Authors
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Knowing to belong to a professional and strong community is protecting me at every step: from the first idea up to the publication.
Carlo E. Lanzavecchia
As a game designer living abroad the SAZ is important to me to help with contracts, share know-how about publishers and, maybe the most important reason of all, getting to know my colleagues.
Liesbeth Bos
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Marco Teubner
I joined the SAZ because designing games is a young profession and we game designers need to communicate about our status, rights and duties.
Antoine Bauza
The SAZ is more than just a successful advocacy. It provides authors a home and lets them share their wealth of experience. Thus, it was and is an vital component of today’s diverse and challenging games landscape.
Klaus Teuber
Without game designers, there would be no games. The SAZ brings us designers together to promote the culture of gaming so that many people can enjoy our games.
Reiner Knizia
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Inka Brand
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Rome
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Bonn
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Essen
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Imst
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Thomas Franken
Berlin
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Göttingen
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Düsseldorf
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Dettingen
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Lüneburg
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Venice
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Leiden
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München
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Hamburg
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Lehrberg
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Hamburg
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London
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Köln
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Östringen
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Berlin
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München
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Tengen
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Madrid
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Verden
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Peine
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Mannheim
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Berlin
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Berlin
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Surheim
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Padova
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Torino
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Berlin
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Treviso
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Dortmund
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Roullingen
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Firenze
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Aubstadt
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Heidelberg
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trossingen
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Trieste
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Groningen
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Bülach
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Thermi
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Duisburg
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Bremen
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Thun
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Benavente
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Mainz
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Berlin
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Diez
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Stuttgart
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Carpi
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Berlin
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Uppsala
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Langen
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Berlin
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Köln
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Stuttgart
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Potsdam
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Roma
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Alfter
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Aerdenhout
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Regensburg
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München
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München
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Neuss
Martino Chiacchiera
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Hückelhoven
Florian Ortlepp
Hagen
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Wellheim
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Nandlstadt
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München
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Haar
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Bonn
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Stuttgart
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Thessaloniki
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Hagen
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