Helmut Walch

Helmut Walch (born November 2, 1944 in Imst , Tyrol ) is an Austrian game developer and book author.

Life

After the textile merchant worked for an Austrian sports fashion manufacturer for two years, Walch switched to a German advertising agency that worked for fashion houses. In 1967 he went to his parents' business in Imst, which he took over in 1970 and then expanded. The company was shut down at the end of 2008 and Walch has since retired.

Together with Christian Raffeiner, he developed various board games that were published by various publishers from 1987 to 1993. Walch has been the sole author since 1995.

His edutainment system, published by Ravensburger in 2004 as Rollino , was patented.

He has published around 70 different gift books and life guides, some of which have been translated into English, Danish and Dutch, and in 2015 he and Angela Holzmann also published the children's book Everything would do for you .

Walch lives in Imst in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Honors

Among other things, Walch worked for the Chamber of Commerce, which awarded him the honorary title of Commercial Councilor .

Awards

• In 2008 Helmut Walch won the "German Learning Game Award" for the best learning game of the year.

Ludography

• 1987: Stolpersteig (with Christian Raffeiner) at Piatnik
• 1987: 88 stop (with Christian Raffeiner) at Piatnik
• 1988: Agent hunt (with Christian Raffeiner) at Piatnik
• 1988: Schlitzohr (with Christian Raffeiner) at Schmidt Spiele
• 1989: Pony farm (with Christian Raffeiner) at Ravensburger
• 1989: Hägar calls for the booty festival (according to its own information) at FX Schmid
• 1989: Erbschleicher AG (with Christian Raffeiner) at Klee Spiele
• 1990: Topping-out ceremony (with Christian Raffeiner) at Klee Spiele
• 1990: Astrotime (with Christian Raffeiner) at Ravensburger
• 1991: Palpitation (with Christian Raffeiner) at Ravensburger
• 1993: Vega (with Christian Raffeiner) at Peri Spiele
• 1993: Coloretto (with Christian Raffeiner) at Ravensburger
• 1995: Domino Land at Ravensburger
• 1999: Sixmix at the Ravensburger FX label
• 2003: Emil and the detectives at Schmidt Spiele
• 2004: Frank and Buster on tour with Schmidt Spiele
• 2005: Wild Cards at Tactic
• 2006: Word for word at Ravensburger
• 2007: My big fire fighting game at Ravensburger , awarded the German Learning Game Prize in 2008
• 2007: Everything about the calendar at Ravensburger
• 2012: Pros and Cons at Piatnik
• 2017 QUIZZY at Ravensburger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rollino Numbers and Quantities at Ludorium - The Games Database
2. ↑ Patent EP1312064 : Learning System. Published on May 21, 2003 , inventor: Helmut Walch. ‌
3. ↑ impuls-magazin 07/2009 ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.8 MB), The Lord of the Games (page 8) 
4. ↑ Winner 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the German Learning Game Award 

Web links

• Website by Helmut Walch
• Helmut Walch in the Luding games database
• Helmut Walch in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
• Publications by Helmut Walch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walch Helmut under Literature Tirol - Lexicon