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Zenobia Award

Historical board games are enjoyed by people from all walks of life, but their designers are predominately white men. The Zenobia Award hopes to change this by encouraging game submissions by people from disadvantaged social groups.

German Bundestag: Motion to improve remuneration framework for game authors

For years, the Spiele-Autoren-Zunft (SAZ) has been working to have analog games included in the collection catalog of the German National Library. Today, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) group in the German Bundestag has submitted a motion to this theme.

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Social project " Games Café of Generations" awarded by German Chancellor Merkel

SPIEL.digital – the expectations are high!

Youtube | Who invented UNO?

Open letter from the Illustrators Organization to Pegasus | UPDATE

Publisher Profiles: New SAZ service for game publishers and game designers

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Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg > postponed to summer

Tuesday, 20.07.2021–24.07.2021

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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

The SAZ is the strong voice for a fair and cooperative partnership with publishers!

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

The combined expertise of the SAZ and its members, the networking among them and the many nice “colleagues” are worth gold.

Inka Brand

I always find competent contact persons in the SAZ for my questions. Thanks to SAZ my interests towards games publishers are well represented.

Janet Kneisel

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Game authors/designers

than just a pastime ... playing together also strengthens social cohesion

Experience and expertise for members

Contract negotiations with publishers on equal footing

SAZ: A strong representation of interests since over 25 years

Games in the collection catalogs of theGerman and all other National Libraries!

Prototype ... starting to the worldwide success of our member Klaus Teuber

News

Zenobia Award

German Bundestag: Motion to improve remuneration framework for game authors

More news

Social project " Games Café of Generations" awarded by German Chancellor Merkel

SPIEL.digital – the expectations are high!

Youtube | Who invented UNO?

Open letter from the Illustrators Organization to Pegasus | UPDATE

Publisher Profiles: New SAZ service for game publishers and game designers

Events

Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg > postponed to summer

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITYAND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS

Game authors/designers

Anna Oppolzer

Helmut Ast

Markus Hagenauer

Gebrüder Frei

Andrea Sbragia

Matthias Prinz

Simon Kösters

Jerome Rank

Walter Obert

Matthias Cramer

Andreas Molter

Peter Ratschiller

Harald Mücke

Jeffrey Allers

Jörg von Rüden

liesbeth bos

Peter-Paul Joopen

Robert Brouwer

Arve D. Fühler

Peter Rustemeyer

Ulrich Blum

Anja Dreier-Brückner

Thilo Hutzler

Thomas Odenhoven

Manfred Reindl

Johnny Ebsen

Florian Ortlepp

Leo Colovini

Matt Leacock

Christian Giove

Hartwig Jakubik

Rustan Håkansson

Carlo Camarotto

Stefan Malz

Francesco Giovo

Mathias Spaan

Leigh Riley

Helmut Ortlepp

Martyn F

Daniel Danzer

Michael Kallauch

Matteo Sassi

Giovanni Franceschelli

Andrea Mainini

Andreas Faul

Torsten Landsvogt

Fred Horn

Uli Geißler

Richard Lenherr

Kirsten Hiese

Bernhard Lach

Marcel Süßelbeck

Thomas Franken

Andrea Boennen

Stefan Bauer

Eric Marks

David Mortimer

Dirk Hanneforth

Tanja Malinowski

Jeroen Geenen

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Games in the collection catalogs of the
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BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITY
AND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS