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SAZ: A strong representation of interests since over 25 years

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Games in the collection catalogs of the
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Prototype ... starting to the worldwide success of our member Klaus Teuber

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News

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

"A wonderful initiative", with these words Chancellor Angela Merkel praised the " Games Café of Generations" in Bavaria. It received the special prize in the nationwide Startsocial Competition to strenghten voluntary commitment in Germany.

SPIEL.digital – the expectations are high!

Instead of the physical trade fair SPIEL in Essen, which we all miss, the eagerly awaited experiment with SPIEL.digital will start from 22 to 25 October 2020 with more than 400 exhibitors from all over the world presenting themselves in 17 theme worlds.

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Youtube | Who invented UNO?

Open letter from the Illustrators Organization to Pegasus | UPDATE

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

Change in the management of SAZ

Game of the Year in Germany: Three winners

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Events

Nov

People of Play (POP), Chicago

Monday, 16.11.2020–22.11.2020

Jul

Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg > postponed to summer

Tuesday, 20.07.2021–24.07.2021

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BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITY
AND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS

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

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

SPIEL.digital – the expectations are high!

More news

Youtube | Who invented UNO?

Open letter from the Illustrators Organization to Pegasus | UPDATE

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

Change in the management of SAZ

Game of the Year in Germany: Three winners

Events

People of Play (POP), Chicago

Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg > postponed to summer

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITYAND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS

Game authors/designers

Jürgen Then

Dirk Hanneforth

Florian Ortlepp

Gabriel Pardave

Francesco Giovo

Peter Jürgensen

Jürgen Elias

Tanja Malinowski

Marcel Süßelbeck

Matteo Sassi

Giacomo Sottocasa

Alan R Moon

Thomas Schneider-Axmann

Leo Colovini

Andreas Molter

Sjaak Griffioen

Violetta Leitner

Harald Mücke

Fabian Zimmermann

Helmut Ortlepp

Clark Rodeffer

Christoph Cantzler

Jens Merkl

Carlo Camarotto

Stefan Bauer

Maurice Van Valen

Daniel Bernsen

Thilo Hutzler

Angelo Tonin

Robert Brouwer

Ellen Schulze

Stefano Negro

Helmut Ast

Michael Kallauch

Ivan Gariboldi

Jürgen Adams

Christian Giove

Carlo Emanuele Lanzavecchia

Simon Haas

Volker Nebel

Francesco Bifulco

Aaron Haag

Andrea Mainini

Anna Oppolzer

Hartmut Kommerell

Malte Schlorf

Gerhard Piaskowy

Uli Geißler

Reiner Priglmeir

Andrea Sbragia

Kirsten Hiese

Gerhard Junker

Thomas Sing

Stefan Malz

Michael Feldkötter

Martin Schlegel

REMO CONZADORI

Christian Beiersdorf

Eric Marks

Dirk Andreas Taube

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

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITY
AND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS