Culture & Society

25 January 2021 Culture & Society

Racism discussion: The Daniele Tascini case

This article is probably far too late for the internet. After all, it covers an event that started more than a week ago. It’s about an Italian Facebook post by game designer Daniele Tascini and the reactions to it. We are documenting the events and answering the most important questions about them.

17 January 2021 Culture & Society

CDU awards prize for innovative party work to a simple race game

The CDU elected not only a new chairperson at its digital party conference but also awarded the prize for innovative party work. The winner was the Rheinberg city association with a simple race game. Neither the game itself nor using it in election campaigns is particularly innovative.

10 December 2020 Culture & Society

Gospelgames: games portal for Christians

GospelGames.de is all about Christian games. Johannes Fähndrich launched the website, and Gaby Orymek reviews games there. We spoke to them about the Ten Commandments, unusual review criteria and playful devotions.

23 November 2020 Culture & Society

Playful Pandemic: Corona in Bleibhausen

Playing through the corona pandemic: Six scientists have developed a board game together with the Institute of Science and Technology in Klosterneuburg (IST Austria). It is available free of charge and shows how viruses spread.

17 November 2020 Culture & Society

Playing through Corona: board games in children’s and youth work

Many institutions in child and youth services currently have to forgo the explorations and outings that are so popular with children and young people. What helps against cabin fever? Playing games! But not all board games are equally suitable for educational work. A guest article by social pedagogue and games expert Petra Fuchs.

6 November 2020 Culture & Society

FDP motion: honour games and game authors

The FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag has submitted a motion aiming to improve the legal and remuneration framework conditions for game designers. kulturgutspiel.de documents the preliminary version of the motion.

23 September 2020 Culture & Society

Annalena Baerbock: Silent ambassador of gaming

Annalena Baerbock is the new face of the initiative “Botschafter*in des Spielens”. She does not want to answer questions about it as Federal Chair of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Ulrich Brobeil, Managing Director of the German Toy Industry Association (DVSI), does. The DVSI launched the initiative, not entirely without self-interest.

16 September 2020 Culture & Society

Spielecafé der Generationen nominated for Deutscher Engagementpreis 2020

The Spielecafé der Generationen has been nominated for the Deutscher Engagementpreis 2020. “This is not only significant for us but essentially for the entire games world,” writes Petra Fuchs. She is the first chairperson of the non-profit association that runs the Spielecafé.

1 September 2020 Culture & Society

Politics Arena at gamescom: Debatt(l)e Royale

Paul Ziemiak (CDU), Lars Klingbeil (SPD), Linda Teuteberg (FDP), Jörg Schindler (Die Linke) and Michael Kellner (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) discussed at the gamescom congress 2020 in the “Debatt(l)e Royale” about games, digital education and coexistence online. The YouTuber Peter Smits (PietSmiet) and the esports presenter Phylicia Whitney (Flitzi) hosted the event.

24 June 2020 Culture & Society

Deutsche Einheit: Wendespiel über Wiedervereinigung

In the competition “Umbruchszeiten. Deutschland im Wandel seit der Einheit”, young people explored the topic of German reunification. Class 9a at Hersleben state community school developed a board game with event cards based on real-life experiences.

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