Friedhelm Merz Verlag
| Friedhelm Merz Verlag | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat | Bonn |
| management | Rosemarie Geu, Dominique Metzler |
| Branch | Event organization, magazine publisher (formerly) |
| Website |
http://www.spiel-essen.com/ http://merz-verlag.com (forwarding) |
The Friedhelm Merz Verlag is a German event company based in Bonn , which is mainly due to the organization of the annual International Toy day in food as well as the award of the German Game Prize concentrated. The company was founded in 1985 by journalist and games critic Friedhelm Merz as a publisher.
history
The company's founder, Friedhelm Merz, was the publisher's manager at Argo-Verlag and editor-in-chief of the game magazine Spielbox . He was also head of the social democratic newspaper Vorwärts . In 1983, Merz had the idea of organizing a meeting for players at the American club in Plittersdorf , to which a surprising 700 readers of the Spielbox registered. Since this number of players blew up the club, Merz got through his contacts to the then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau , the area of the Essen Adult Education Center to hold his "German Players Days". After an announcement in the morning magazine of WDR 2 , 5000 visitors came to the event. In the following year, 15,000 visitors turned up and the meeting became the venue for the German team championship in the board game . In 1985 the event moved to Messe Essen .
Friedhelm Merz Verlag was also founded in 1985 in his apartment in Mehlem , a district of Bonn, as a specialist publisher for games and communication. Together with his partner Rosemarie Geu, Merz published waste disposal literature and the SpielReport as a games magazine. In addition, the publisher took over the publication of the magazine Die Pöppel-Revue , whose editor-in-chief Merz took over in 1989. In 1986 the German players' days were renamed to Internationale Spieltage SPIEL, the name has been retained to this day. After Friedhelm Merz's death in 1996, Ms. Geu and her daughter Dominique Metzler took over the management of the company, which has since concentrated entirely on the organization of the International Game Days, which attracted more than 160,000 visitors in 2016, and the German Games Prize.
supporting documents
- ↑ Friedhelm Merz Verlag EN: About us - Friedhelm Merz Verlag EN ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 29, 2017
- ↑ a b c d Kölnische Rundschau: Merz was the publishing director at Argo-Verlag and editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine “Spielbox”, head of the social democratic newspaper “Vorwärts” and in the meantime even wrote speeches for Willy Brandt. - Source: https://www.rundschau-online.de/24904002 © 2017 , accessed on October 29, 2017
- ↑ a b WHO'S WHO biography: SpielReport , accessed October 29, 2017
Web links
- Official homepage of the international game days / Friedhelm Merz Verlag
- Friedhelm Merz Verlag in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)