Johann Rüttinger

Johann Rüttinger (born April 10, 1947 in Nuremberg ) is a German graphic artist , game designer and entrepreneur .

After training as a graphic designer, he worked as a commercial artist. Rüttinger later worked as a freelancer at Noris-Spiele , where he and his brother Michael Rüttinger were responsible for most of the publisher's products (author, editing, design) for many years. For the game he developed and published by Noris, The Three Magicians , he received the special prize “Beautiful Game” from the Game of the Year jury . In 1984 and 1986 he received the Essen pen for the games Inka and The Blue Amuletfor the best rules of the game. But some of his games have also been published by other publishers. In 1994 he founded the game publisher Drei Magier Spiele together with his wife Kathi Kappler in Uehlfeld . Together with Erwin Glonnegger , he revised “The Games Book”, which was reissued in 1999 by Drei Magier Spiele.

In 2008, Rüttinger and his partners sold the Drei Magier publishing house to Schmidt Spiele for professionalization . The reason for the sale was Rüttinger's health problems and the fear that the well-established publisher as a small publisher could no longer be adequately maintained. A short time later, Rüttinger and his wife founded the small publishing house Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne .

Awards

• game of the year
  • Vocabulary : shortlist 1982
  • The Black Prince : Shortlist 1983
  • The three magicians : special prize "Beautiful Game" 1985
  • The Forbidden City (with Alex Randolph ): Shortlist 1992
• Children's game of the year
  • Heli Hopper (with Helmut Hecht ): List of recommendations 2007
• Essen spring
  • Inca 1984
  • The blue amulet 1986
• à la carte card game price
  • Thumbs on it (with Jens-Peter Schliemann ): 10th place 1997

supporting documents

1. ↑ Thalia Magazin, Issue 4, 2012, p. 65 ( online )
2. ↑ Erwin Glonnegger: The game book: board and placement games from all over the world. Ravensburger Buchverlag & Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Ravensburg & Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-9806792-0-6
3. ↑ Three magicians. FAIRPLAY No. 86, January-March 2009; on the homepage of the publishing house Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne, accessed on April 29, 2017.
4. ↑ Wolfgang Ottinger: Three rabbits have offspring. Main Post, December 2008; on the homepage of the publishing house Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne, accessed on April 29, 2017.
5. ↑ Michael Weber: Johann Rüttinger: Three rabbits in the evening sun and the world language game. Why magicians wanted to be rabbits. Interview on reich-der-spiele.de, October 12, 2014; Retrieved April 29, 2017.
6. ↑ Bernhard Hertlein: Three magicians change into rabbits Westfalenblatt / Westfälisches Volksblatt, 15./16. November 2008; on the website of the publishing house Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne , accessed on April 28, 2017

Web links

• Three magician games
• Portrait of Johann Rüttinger at spielwiese.at
• Johann Rüttinger in the Luding games database
• Johann Rüttinger in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)