#Interview

31 December 2016 Panorama

The Codenames Translator

Michael Kröhnert translated Codenames into German and helped make the game a success. We spoke to him about homonyms, centaurs and moments when he’s glad his name doesn’t appear in rulebooks.

Friedemann Friese & Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

Friedemann Friese and Klaus-Jürgen Wrede talk about their games Funkenschlag and Carcassonne.

1 January 2015 Science

Protection from dirt: archiving games

Games have many enemies: fingers, sunlight and protective films, for example. If you want to enjoy your games for a long time, you should therefore bear a few things in mind. In an interview, Stefanie Kuschill from the Deutsches Spielearchiv Nürnberg reveals why she replaces zip bags with parchment bags, why protective films are dangerous and why professionals only handle games with gloves.

7 July 2014 Media

Tom Werneck: “Better games through performance competition”

Tom Werneck is a book author, games journalist, founding member of Spiel des Jahres and head of the Bavarian Games Archive in Haar. Here he talks about his playful life as well as the past and present of the Spiel des Jahres award.

11 June 2014 Panorama

Board game apps: From the kitchen table to the mobile phone

How are apps for board games created? Which board games can be easily digitised? Which can’t? And what actually makes a successful board game app? We discussed this with Volker Hirsch from Ravensburger Digital and Martin Pittenauer from TheCodingMonkeys.

2 February 2014 Panorama

Erwin Glonnegger: “I discovered Memory”

Erwin Glonnegger shaped the German board game scene for many years. As the former head of Ravensburger’s board game programme, he was responsible for classics like “Memory”, “Malefiz” and “Hare and Tortoise”, the first Spiel des Jahres. Glonnegger also wrote numerous books about board games.

1 January 2014 Panorama

Stefan Feld & Uwe Rosenberg

Stefan Feld and Uwe Rosenberg spoke with Sebastian Wenzel at Spiel 2013 about their games and their playful lives. The event was a collaboration between Friedhelm Merz Verlag, the Spiele-Autoren-Zunft (SAZ) and zuspieler.de.

Klemens Franz without words

Every Saturday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine publishes an interview without words. Athletes, politicians and artists pose for photos and answer the questions with their images. We were inspired by this. In the series “Without Words”, illustrators and graphic designers of board games answer our questions with drawings. Today: Klemens Franz.

Michael Menzel without words

Every Saturday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine publishes a wordless interview. Athletes, politicians and artists pose for photos and answer the questions with their images. We took inspiration from this. In our “Ohne Worte” series, illustrators and graphic designers of board games answer our questions with drawings. Today: Michael Menzel.

The last resort

It’s like in football. At the German Board Game Championships, referees make sure no one cheats. In an interview with zuspieler.de, referee Kathrin Nos reveals how she reacts to foul play, which technical aids are used and which stimulants are officially allowed.

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