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News
We mourn the loss of Reinhold Wittig
Reinhold Wittig, our highly esteemed honorary member, passed away on April 11.
The Games Authors’ Guild thanks you, Reinhold, for your numerous initiatives, your focus on community, and not least for enriching our lives.
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
VG WORT’s use of the database of the Stiftung Spielen archive to calculate library royalties demonstrates its practical functionality and underscores the archive’s eligibility for funding.
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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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Nandlstadt
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Hildesheim
Enrico Gandolfo
Bologna
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Heidelberg
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Thessaloniki
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Copenhagen
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Venice
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Spalt
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Thun
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Leonberg
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Bilthoven
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Treviso
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Düsseldorf
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Neuss
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Ritterhude
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Göttingen
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Köln
Martin Schmitz
Bonn
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Villa Estense
Stefan Dorra
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Matthias Goebel
Unna
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Lüneburg
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Kaarst
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Magdeburg
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Roma
Nicole Zeller
Dettingen
Antonio Cizu
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Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm
Matt Leacock
Sunnyvale
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Rheine
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Berlin
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Amsterdam
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Bunde
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Berlin
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Madrid
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Mannheim
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Milano
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Amsterdam
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trossingen
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Berlin
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Leiden
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Torino
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Bremen
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Langen
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Hagen
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Gera
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Roma
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Nuenen
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trebisacce
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Berlin
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Berlin
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Hannover
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Köln
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München
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Kiel
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Bielefeld
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Köln
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Bonn
Janet Kneisel
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Verden
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Sorø
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Hamburg
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Paderborn
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München
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Mannheim
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Zutphen
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Berlin
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