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for Sunday reading: Klaus Teuber in time

The German weekly newspaper Die Zeit has Klaus Teuber an entire page dedicated to the business section . Under the title "The Creator of Catan" is characterized Author Gerd bladder Teuber way to the dental technician to a successful game developers. Here are some excerpts from the text:

Teuber about inventing the game:

always start with a story and the desire to have them before me on the table to be able to access them.

His interest in the Vikings was the beginning of the Settlers of Catan :

Vikings have always fascinated me. As they sailed with their dragon boats across the sea to Greenland, Iceland and America ...

Fritz Gruber of TM-games remembers his audition in 1994:

We were completely flabbergasted. That was something extraordinary, a new madness mix of strategy, luck and negotiation. [...] At that time, have believed the critics, games could not be stupid enough. Now the counter-evidence was before us.

Teuber of games as cultural objects:

games are a cultural heritage like books. Teach them to accept the others as he is. With all its peculiarities. The rules may have the advantage that it only sometimes makes all the same. The grandfather has the same opportunities as their grandchildren. It gives a child a huge boost personality to play on an equal footing with adults. Unfortunately, I have

the time article from the issue of 6 March is only now discovered while researching my paper stack. Internet can read the text but also in full length.