Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber ( born June 25, 1952 in Rai -Breitenbach, Odenwald region in Germany ) is the inventor of the Settlers of Catan one of the most well-known game designers in Germany. He won the award four times a game of the year and also four times the German game prize.
He lives in the small town of Roßdorf near Darmstadt.
Life
Teuber is a trained dental technician and worked as a full game designer since 1999. Already his first work Barbarossa in 1988 was Game of the Year. 1990 Klaus Teuber was the second time won the Critics' Prize Game of the Year, and indeed obliged for the game nobility.
Teuber had difficulty finding a publisher for his next game. Vulture - the later opening, one for those times above average complex board game - writing would have been picked up by a major publisher in the series of best-selling authors games, but only under the condition that Teuber transferred this publisher the right to change the game would. He did not agree. For this reason, he and his partners founded with TM matches its own publishing house. The TM- first- opening was not taken from the Game of the Year jury note. At the German game prize but it was enough in 1993 for a third.
TM- games, which initially had four, later five shareholders, was already after two years before the bankruptcy. In this situation, there was a range of toys Simba Toys Group, who wanted to build a program Games supplementary line, but had no experience in this field. TM was tasked with the development of first four games under the name Goldsieber. The Goldsieber program was added to the gaming scene with enthusiasm. Line 1 and canter Royal arrived in 1995 on the Game of the Year shortlist, line 1 and starry sky made it to number 2 and 3 of the German Game Prize. Since the negotiations between Simba Toys and TM lasted long, located Teuber decided that his game The Settlers of Catan 1995 in Franckh games gallery of the games company Kosmos Games should appear. Two houses had already rejected the game or required substantial thematic changes.
For Teuber - who was still working as an independent master dental technician - it became increasingly difficult to operate Goldsieber and cosmos in parallel. Therefore, it lent itself to him to bundle all TM activities at Kosmos and conclude in mid-1997 with this publisher an exclusive agreement about his work as an author, which was a first for the industry. In 1999 he sold the dental laboratory inherited from his father and became a full professional game designer.
The Settlers of Catan evolved into the famous board game of recent times. Within the Catan family several more titles, both extensions and stand-alone games appeared. A novelty is the Prof. Easy game launches, which appeared both as small brochures and later as an Internet animation. Teuber facilitated with these imagined he usually launches the introduction to his games quite considerably.
In 2002, Klaus Teuber, together with his son, Guido Teuber Catan GmbH and the company gave her the licensing rights to its games. This company is responsible for contacts with the global licensees of its games and computer implementations. His son Benjamin works in the family business.
2010 Klaus Teuber received the As d' Or for his life's work.
Method
At the beginning of a game idea is Teuber own words always a story. In his first published game Barbarossa and the Riddler he wanted to take up the atmosphere of the fantasy trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip earth spells. An important motive for it is the discovery: " You do not know exactly where it's at, have a desire to have a vague idea, see how a lock appears in the fog - and want to go there. " With that thought, he tries out ideas. "I work really still prefer intuitively, from the gut. There is nothing pre-fabricated, no template, but a large voltage. "