Gunnar Lott

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Gunnar Lott (born July 21, 1969 in Stadtoldendorf ) is a German journalist and author specializing in computer games .

Career and life

Gunnar Lott made 1989 Abitur at the grammar school at the Liebig Street in Lower Saxony Holzminden . He then studied social studies and English for teaching at the University of Göttingen , then social affairs in Kassel. In addition to his studies, he worked for five years as a salesman for video and computer games. In 1998 he began his career as an editor at the computer game magazine GameStar from the Munich publisher IDG Entertainment Media . There he worked his way up from trainee to department head until 2001.

From 2002 to 2004 Gunnar Lott took a break from GameStar to found the video game magazine GamePro at the same publisher and to lead it as editor-in-chief. At the end of 2004 he returned to GameStar and replaced the long-time editor-in-chief Jörg Langer . In 2005 he founded the GameStar spin-off / GameStar / dev as editor-in-chief , a magazine initially published every three months for developers of computer games, which is now called Making Games . In 2006 he founded the game developer conference Making Games , which later became the recruiting event Making Games Talents .

At the end of 2007 he gave up the editor-in-chief of GameStar and Making Games and from then on was responsible for the areas of online, events and custom publishing at IDG Entertainment Media GmbH as Director Online and New Business. In early 2011, Lott moved to Gameforge in Karlsruhe as head of the press department . At the end of January 2012 he left Gameforge again.

Gunnar Lott has received several awards for his work: The Gameforge.com website he runs won an International Business Award in 2011; GameStar.de won the 2010 public vote for online star. The specialist magazine Making Games developed by Lott received the German Developer Prize in 2009.

At the beginning of 2011, Lott published a parenting guide entitled “Parents' Secrets” in Heyne-Verlag, based on tips sent in by readers of his website of the same name.

Gunnar Lott is a frequent speaker on game topics at congresses and events such as the GCDC , Making Games, Gameplaces or the Medientage Munich and a member of the Academy of the German Developer Award.

Trivia

In the comedy series Spaceship Gamestar (appeared periodically from 1997 to 2004 on the data carriers of GameStar magazine) he played many supporting roles, including as Darth Lott . He was also one of the writers and actors of the follow-up series called Die Redaktion .

2005 GameStar 50,000 (online) collected signatures of players from the coverage of the ZDF magazine, Frontal21 in the program entitled "Violence Without Borders - brutal computer games in the children" that Lott early September 2005 to the ZDF editor in chief Nikolaus Brender handed .

He has been running the Retrogames podcast Stay Forever since mid-2011 with Christian Schmidt and Fabian Brille .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GamePro foundation , dwdl.de
  2. ↑ IDG Consumer Unit wants to expand business activity ( Memento of October 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) In: wowowo.de . IDG Communications Verlag AG and Group Publisher Consumer Unit, August 2, 2004
  3. ↑ Foundation of / GameStar / dev , pcwelt.de
  4. ↑ IDG Entertainment Verlag is organizing the first "making games" congress with its magazines "GameStar", "GamePro" and "/ GameStar / dev" on July 13, 2006 ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: presseportal.de . IDG Entertainment Media GmbH, June 23, 2006
  5. ↑ Lott becomes Director , idgmedia.de
  6. ↑ Gameforge AG hires Gunnar Lott as Head of PR , game7.de
  7. ↑ Gameforge.com wins International Business Award , gameforge.com
  8. ↑ GameStar.de wins the Online Star 2010 , gamestar.de
  9. ↑ Developer award for making games , gamestar.de
  10. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.de/book/edition.jsp?edi=332468
  11. ↑ www.elterngeheimnisse.de ( Memento from July 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Academy of the German Developer Prize ( Memento from January 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), deutscher-entwicklerpreis.de
  13. ↑ GameStar at ZDF , gamepro.de
  14. ↑ Stay Forever Podcast Official page of the podcast

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personal data
SURNAME Lott, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadtoldendorf