Heinrich Lenhardt

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Heinrich Lenhardt (* 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German computer game journalist . He now lives in Vancouver , Canada .

In 1984 Heinrich Lenhardt started to work at Markt + Technik Verlag in Haar (near Munich) as an editor for the magazine Happy Computer . There he soon became the main person responsible for the games section. Three years later, this part of the booklet was so extensive that it got its own name: Power Play . Despite some special issues and to the annoyance of Lenhardt and his colleagues Boris Schneider , Martin Gaksch , Anatol Locker and Michael Hengst , the publisher decided to keep the Power Play as part of the Happy Computer. When Power Play was finally published as an independent publication in 1990, Lenhardt became its first editor-in-chief.

Lenhardt left his place of work the following year. After brief guest appearances at Video Games , PC Review and Gamers , he and Boris Schneider founded the PC Player magazine at the end of 1992 , which quickly became the best-selling PC game magazine. From the end of 1996 to the beginning of 1997 he was editor-in-chief of the short-lived PC Xtreme , after which he returned to PC Player.

In 1998 Lenhardt moved to Berkeley near San Francisco in the United States and lived there until 2001, from 2001 to 2006 he was based in Vancouver , Canada . In America he worked as a foreign correspondent for various German game magazines.

In August 2006 Lenhardt returned to Germany, where he settled in the Nuremberg area and took over the position of editor-in-chief at the magazine PC Action as well as the management of the MMO portal Buffed , both of which are published by Computec-Verlag from Fürth . In August 2007 the magazine buffed appeared for the first time - the magazine for role players with Lenhardt as editor-in-chief. In September 2007 he was replaced by Petra Fröhlich as editor-in-chief at PC Action. In 2008 Lenhardt moved back to Vancouver, but continued to work with the buffed editorial team from there. On November 30, 2009, Lenhardt's employment with Computec Media ended.

Since April 19, 2009 Heinrich Lenhardt has been running the game veterans podcast together with Anatol Locker , Jörg Langer and Winnie Forster , in which everything about current games and retro games is discussed.

On August 13, 2010, the short-lived online portal Helddaten started , which Lenhardt helped to design and was responsible for as editor-in-chief. Here he left the company at the end of 2010, as well as a partner in Playata GmbH , which he was also involved in founding.

From February to December 2011 Lenhardt took over the management of the North American branch of the German browser game provider Playa Games in Vancouver.

At the end of 2012 Lenhardt appeared as a guest in a teaser for the retrogaming comedy Bread and Games alongside Thomas Limpinsel and Götz Otto . He directed the publication of several special chip issues for the 25th anniversary of the Power Play magazine, which he founded . In North America he recently published "Game.Machines 1972 - 2012" ( ISBN 978-0-9878305-0-0 ), the expanded edition of the specialist book "Game Consoles and Home Computers" by Winnie Forster.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Game veterans (official homepage) . Game veterans. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ Press release: Start helddaten.de . Playata. August 13, 2010. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  4. ^ Notification of the closure of Helddaten.de on Facebook . Helddaten.de. April 28, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ Press release Playa Games: Opening of a representative office in North America . Helddaten.de. February 12, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  6. ^ Public XING profile of Heinrich Lenhardt . Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  7. ↑ Report on bread and circuses film . Gamers Global. November 7, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lenhardt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer game journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main