Hans im Glück
The Hans im Glück is a Munich- based publisher of board and card games.
History
The Munich-based publishing house was founded in 1983 by Bernd Brunnhofer and Karl -Heinz Schmiel. The first games developed by hand in a garage workshop. 1987 rose Karl-Heinz Schmiel out from the publisher and the game publisher has been professionalized. Bernd Brunnhofer now bears sole responsibility as an editor and publisher.
After the Hans- im-Glück Games were represented twice on the list of game of the year in the 1980s ( Greyhounds by Bernd Brunnhofer 1986 and Maestro Rudi Hoffmann 1989) succeeded to the game Drunter & Drüber the breakthrough. The game by Klaus Teuber was named Game of the Year 1991. The Hans im Glück was the first small publisher to receive this award world's most important games. Today he is considered the most excellent game publisher. The biggest success so far is that published in 2000, million-selling tile-laying game Carcassonne.
Since 1993, the Hans- im-Glück program by the Berlin Games Publisher Blatz games, now under the label Schmidt Spiele occurs marketed.
Awards ( main prizes )
- Drunter & Drüber - Game of the Year 1991
- Modern Art - German Games Award 1993
- Manhattan - Game of the Year 1994
- El Grande - Game of the Year 1996, German Games Award 1996
- Euphrates & Tigris - German Games Award 1998
- Citadels - à la carte Card Game Award 2000
- Carcassonne - Game of the Year 2001, German Games Award 2001
- Amun -Re - German Games Award 2003
- Saint Petersburg - German Games Award 2004
- Thurn and Taxis - Game of the Year 2006
- Dominion - Game of the Year 2009
More Games
- The makers: Election campaign in Germany (1986 )
- 1835: Construction of railway companies in Germany (1990 )
- Samurai: the battle for supremacy in the 19th century Japan (1998)
- Fjords: match game (1998)
- Stone Age (2008)