Reinhold Wittig

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Reinhold Wittig (* 1937 in Göttingen ) is a German artist and game designer as well as a planetary geologist .

Life

Bronze cast stele from Reinhold Wittig's Planet Path in Göttingen (Goetheallee)

Reinhold Wittig is a full-time geologist who worked at the Geological Institute of the Georg-August University in Göttingen until his retirement .

Wittig is also head of the games publisher Edition Perlhuhn, which he founded in 1976 . A few years ago, an African branch of the publishing house called Namibian Games was founded together with the small family handicraft business Driehoek in northern Namibia . Bushmen are employed in the production and are also involved in the adapted "African" concept. So z. For example, local materials are used, such as leather game boards, carvings made of softwood, Makalani nuts or gemstones .

Originally together with his then wife Karin (née Mieth), he organized the annual Göttingen game designers' meeting from 1983 to 2016 . From the meeting in 1991, the game authors guild association and the trade journal Spiel & Autor emerged . In this context, the term “game designer” coined by Wittig became known.

Furthermore, Wittig appears regularly as a visual artist in various fields in Göttingen. He is also the initiator of the Göttingen Planet Trail and participated in the Göttingen Art Market and the Göttingen Geopark.

Edition guinea fowl

On September 26, 1976, the small game publisher Edition Perlhuhn was founded by Wittig. Over 100 games have now been published there, several of which have been awarded by the Game of the Year jury . In addition to the Wittig games, games by other authors have also been included in the program since the 1980s. The seat of the Edition guinea fowl "play and art" in Göttingen.

Awards

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Müller & Son

In addition to being awarded the Medal of Honor by the City of Göttingen in 2003, Wittig received various awards for the following games:

Web links

Commons : Reinhold Wittig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max J. Kobbert : Game as a cultural asset . Daedalus Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89126-252-8 , p. 75.
  2. ^ Namibian Games on the Guinea Fowl website
  3. ↑ Reinhold Wittig (Ed.): 1st game designers meeting Göttingen 1983 . Event documentation, Göttingen 1983.
personal data
SURNAME Wittig, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, artist, game designer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen