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Bureaucratic Monster: Withholding Tax for Foreign Authors

Game authors who are not resident in Germany are – like all foreign licensors and artists – affected by the unsatisfactory procedure for exemption from and reimbursement of withholding tax. The SAZ has once again submitted proposals to reduce bureaucracy.

Success for TTGDA in the “Ace of Spades” case

The Tabletop Game Designers Association (TTGDA), a partner organization of SAZ in the US, has successfully drawn attention to the sensitive handling of illustrations in games with a statement in the wake of the discussion about the design of cards in the game Ace of Spades. The publisher Devir responded immediately and announced measures to replace the affected playing cards and not to allow further sale this version.

We would like to take this opportunity to refer once again to the Code of Respect and Responsibility, which we drafted and published in 2021 together with the SAJ and other international authors.

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Game of the Year 2025: Award Winners

Board Game Designer of the Year award 2025

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Game of the Year Jury: The nominated games 2025

“Playing board games” in the nationwide UNESCO directory of intangible cultural heritage

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Events

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International Game Inventors' Convention in Nuremberg

Tuesday, 27.01.2026–31.01.2026

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Campus Spielkultur 2026

Friday, 20.03.2026 17:00–22.03.2026 14:00

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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

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

About SAZ: A strong interest group introduces itself

FAQ: EXPERIENCED GAME AUTHORS ANSWER FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Experience and expertise for members – Now online seminars too

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

Contract negotiations with publishers on equal footing

News

Bureaucratic Monster: Withholding Tax for Foreign Authors

Success for TTGDA in the “Ace of Spades” case

More news

Game of the Year 2025: Award Winners

Board Game Designer of the Year award 2025

Gamesmarkt | German Scholars Launch Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft (DGSW)

Game of the Year Jury: The nominated games 2025

“Playing board games” in the nationwide UNESCO directory of intangible cultural heritage

Events

International Game Inventors' Convention in Nuremberg

Campus Spielkultur 2026

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITYAND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS

Game authors/designers

Lidia Blanco González

Tobias Scholz

Antonio Cizu

Volker Cullmann

Luca Borsa

Marcel-André Casasola Merkle

Sebastian Riechmann

Thomas Dettbarn

Emanuele Briano

Axel Heill

Peter Kuhn

Lorenzo Tarabini Castellani

Barbara Schröders

Betty Baindl

Claude Weber

Gebrüder Frei

Violetta Leitner

Guido Hoffmann

Peter Ratschiller

Karl-Hermann Böker

Dean Morris

Peter Jürgensen

Dirk Hanneforth

Christian Beiersdorf

Sandra Niemeyer

Reiner Knizia

Peter-Paul Joopen

Markus Falkenau

Hans-Peter Stoll

Ralf Kuhn

Wolfgang Vogel

Wolfgang Pabst

Lena Flottow

William Cavaglieri

Florian Maas

Carsten Jansen

Martin Ebel

Florian Sixt

Patrick Katona

Jan Werner

Klemens Luger

Gian Andrea Cappuzzo

Michael Kallauch

Dietmar Bockelmann

Walter Obert

Aske Severin Juul Christiansen

Markus Haberbosch

Henning Schulz

Maj-Britt Jönsson

Alessandro Cuneo

Janet Kneisel

Michiel de Wit

Citie Lo

Kenanja Nuding

Alessandro Schiavetti

Martino Chiacchiera

Marcello Galli

Leo Colovini

Eric Marks

Paul Bamberger

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITY
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