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

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News

Game of the Year in Germany: Three winners 2021

„Spiel des Jahres 2021“ is MicroMacro: Crime City by Johannes Sich (Edition Spielwiese and Pegasus Spiele), the award „Kinderspiel des Jahres 2021“ wins Dragomino by Bruno Cathala, Marie Fort and Wilfried Fort (Pegasus Spiele). Paleo by Peter Rustemeyer (Hans im Glück) was chosen as "Kennerspiel des Jahres 2021".

International group of game designers released a Code of Respect and Responsibility

Initiated by SAZ, an international group of game designers with members of Spiele-Autoren-Zunft (SAZ), members of Société des Auteurs de Jeux (SAJ) as well as of not organized game designers, have created a Code of Respect and Responsibiliy during the last months.

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New executive board elected

Game authors demand a defined participation in the editing of their works by publishers

Game Designers Meeting 2021

Game Designers Meeting in June 2021 in Göttingen cancelled – Digital platform planned

SAZ: Clear position against racism and for tolerance

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Events

Oct

SPIEL'21 in Essen (D)

Thursday, 14.10.2021–17.10.2021

Feb

Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg > Summer Edition cancelled

Wednesday, 02.02.2022–06.02.2022

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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 – Now online seminars too

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

Game of the Year in Germany: Three winners 2021

International group of game designers released a Code of Respect and Responsibility

More news

New executive board elected

Game authors demand a defined participation in the editing of their works by publishers

Game Designers Meeting 2021

Game Designers Meeting in June 2021 in Göttingen cancelled – Digital platform planned

SAZ: Clear position against racism and for tolerance

Events

SPIEL'21 in Essen (D)

Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg > Summer Edition cancelled

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITYAND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS

Game authors/designers

Patrick Fuchs

Lukas Setzke

Florian Ortlepp

Gebrüder Frei

Bernhard Lach

Thomas Franken

Andreas Molter

Peter Kuhn

Angelo Alessandro Mazzotti

Uwe-Jens Maruschke

Sophia Wagner

Richard Lenherr

Michael Kallauch

Reiner Knizia

Simon Kösters

Stefan Bauer

Jan Plümecke

Philipp Mölsig

Marcus Meigel

Norbert Proena

Moritz Schuster

Gerd Fenchel

Luca Borsa

Frank Pukrop

Harvey Johnston

Carlo Camarotto

Jörg von Rüden

Bruce Whitehill

Andreas Kuhnekath-Häbler

Jens-Peter Schliemann

Björn Müller-Mätzig

Andrea Mainini

Dr. Hans Joachim Höh

Andrea Mezzotero

Arpad Fritsche

Manfred Reindl

Jürgen Elias

Helmut Ortlepp

Riccardo Ielo

Jens Merkl

Domenico (Nick) Gandolfi

Thomas Schneider-Axmann

Andreas Faul

Hilko Drude

Dirk Hanneforth

Stefano Negro

Detlef Dewitz

Martyn F

Markus von der Heyde

Markus Haberbosch

Bernhard Weber

Guido Hoffmann

Verena Wiechens

Clark Rodeffer

Michael Palm

Torsten Landsvogt

Carlo Emanuele Lanzavecchia

Paul Schulz

Dirk Andreas Taube

Walter Obert

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

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITY
AND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS