Carsten Fichtelmann

Carsten Fichtelmann (born February 18, 1970 in Braunschweig ) is a German games producer and publisher. He is the founder of Daedalic Entertainment and a professional game developer.

Career

Carsten Fichtelmann studied business administration at the University of Lüneburg . After graduating, he started working as a journalist. In the late 1990s he was editor-in-chief of the Media Digest series and managing director of his own agency, CF Media. After holding positions at MMM / Hamburg and UFA cinema advertising, he joined dtp entertainment in 2001 as PR and Marketing Director . There he later also worked as head of product management.

At the beginning of 2007 he founded Daedalic Entertainment together with Jan Müller-Michaelis . He has been managing director there since it was founded. Daedalic developed a. a. the computer games Edna breaks out , The Whispered World , A New Beginning , Harvey's New Eyes , The Black Eye: Satinav's Chains , Deponia , The Night of the Rabbit and The Black Eye: Blackguards . Fichtelmann generally acts as the executive producer for productions by Daedalic Entertainment. Sometimes, however, as in the case of the eco-thriller A New Beginning , the ideas for new material come from him, or he gives a character his voice, as happened with Edna Bricht Aus .

In May 2014 the German publishing group Bastei Lübbe acquired a majority stake in Daedalic Entertainment. After the stake did not bring in the expected income, Bastei Lübbe sold the shares with a book value of 4.9 million euros back to Fichtelmann for 410,000 euros.

As a producer, Fichtelmann won 31 times the German Developer Award , seven times the German Computer Game Award of the German Federal Government and the German industrial associations GAME and BIU as well as the Lara Award and the Red Dot Design Award several times . From 2012 to 2016 Fichtelmann was on the board of the " GAME Federal Association of the German Games Industry ". He also works as a lecturer for game design at the HAW Hamburg . From a producer's point of view, he regards his games as author's games. The authors employed by Daedalic form a “writers room”. Fichtelmann states that the authors at Daedalic would be given very extensive creative freedom.

Ludography (excerpt)

• Edna breaks out (2008)
• The Whispered World (2009)
• A New Beginning (2010)
• Harvey's New Eyes (2011)
• The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav (2012)
• Deponia (2011)
• Chaos on Deponia (2012)
• The Night of the Rabbit (2013)
• The Dark Eye: Memoria (2012)
• Goodbye Deponia (2013)
• The Dark Eye: Blackguards (2014)
• Deponia Doomsday (2016)
• Silence (2016)
• The Long Journey Home (2017)
• The Pillars of the Earth (2017)

Web links

• Carsten Fichtelmann at MobyGames (English)
• Carsten Fichtelmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gameswirtschaft.de: After Daedalic sale: Bastei Lübbe AG gives up games business. Retrieved July 26, 2020 . 
2. ^ Promotion of culture: Video game makers now also want state money on welt.de, accessed on March 15, 2015
3. ↑ MakingGames.biz: Fichtelmann: “For us, game design is a creative dictatorship”. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .