Johannes Susen

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Johannes Susen
Johannes Susen (2013)

Johannes Susen (born November 10, 1950 in Brühl ) is a German puzzle author and editor of puzzle magazines as well as the organizer and organizer of puzzle championships.

Life and education

After finishing school, Johannes Susen completed an apprenticeship as a banker, which he successfully completed in 1970 before the Bonn Chamber of Commerce and Industry . He graduated from high school in 1978 at the Cologne College and then began studying economics and business administration at the University of Cologne . In 1980, after completing his basic studies, he moved to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied German, history and political science. He finished his studies in 1986 with a master's degree .

From 1987 to 2007 Johannes Susen worked for the puzzle editorial team at the then Bastei Verlag in Bergisch Gladbach . Since then he has headed the Susen puzzle editor in Brühl, which he founded. As a puzzle author and editor, he looks after puzzle magazines from various publishers and organizes and holds puzzle championships in Germany. In addition, he has worked as an organizer and supervisor for world puzzle championships such as the World Sudoku Championship and World Puzzle Championship.

Johannes Susen welcomes the participants of the 5th German Crossword Championship 2014 in Frankfurt / Main.
Johannes Susen welcomes the participants of the 5th German Crossword Championship 2014 in Frankfurt / Main.

Johannes Susen has two children and lives with his wife in Brühl near Cologne.

Career

In 1987 Johannes Susen joined the puzzle team at Bastei Verlag. In 1996 he took over the classic puzzles department and in 2000 the price puzzles area. He was appointed chief editor of the puzzle editorial team in 2004. Until the takeover of the puzzle editorial team in 2007 by today's Deutsche Rätsel Verlag GmbH ( Funke Mediengruppe ), Johannes Susen was the department head.

In 1992, Johannes Susen took part in the first World Puzzle Championship in New York as a competitor; In the following years he was one of the supervisors of the 3rd World Puzzle Championship in Cologne in 1994 as well as the German puzzle championships (organized from 1994) and Sudoku championships (organized from 2006).

From 2004 to 2016, Johannes Susen accompanied the German participants in the puzzle world championship as a team captain to international puzzle and sudoku world championships. In 2006 he founded the German puzzle association Logic Masters Deutschland eV with other puzzle authors and solvers. The association is an official and exclusive member for Germany of the international puzzle association World Puzzle Federation . From 2007 to 2012 he headed the association as chairman of the board, since then he has been an honorary chairman of the association.

In 2010 Johannes Susen initiated the German Crossword Championship , which he has been in charge of since then as a puzzle maker, moderator and co-organizer.

Johannes Susen creates puzzles from traditional crossword puzzles through various special puzzles to logical puzzles and supervises puzzle sections and magazines for various publishers: Deutsche Rätsel Verlag (Funke Mediengruppe), Panini , Bauer Media Group and DuMont Mediengruppe . He is also in demand as an expert on puzzles in radio and television formats.

X word puzzle: Sweden puzzle with specially arranged question fields based on the Brazilian model
The X word puzzle is a Sweden puzzle with specially arranged question fields - based on the Brazilian model
Pattern of a classic crossword puzzle grid in the form of a question mark
The pattern of the classic crossword puzzle here has the shape of a question mark.

Journalistic

For the crossword puzzle blog , Johannes Susen's puzzles are “high quality, challenging and varied” and thus contribute “to significantly more fun puzzles”. The puzzles include - in addition to the classic, entertaining forms - among others

  • Classic Sweden puzzle grid with special structures: X-word puzzles, Sweden puzzles in a square, back-and-forth crossword puzzles
  • Variations of Sudokus , e.g. B. up to four nested Sudokus
  • logical puzzles such as camp and logical
  • Lateral thinker puzzle
  • Puzzles based on historical models, e.g. B. the world's first crossword puzzle from December 21, 1913 with current questions for the 4th German Crossword Championship (2013)
  • Puzzle grids from other countries, e.g. B. from Norway and Finland (Sweden puzzle grid without arrows)

To create puzzles you not only need computers, says Johannes Susen, but: "A good crossword puzzle needs the mind and heart of a riddle maker". Solving puzzles can "be done alone, but also with others" and it serves, among other things, "to confirm your own knowledge".

Web links

proof

  1. ^ Juliane Fritz: Johannes Susen for the 5th German Crossword Championship. September 23, 2014, accessed January 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Norbert Lossau: Schäuble plays Sudoku at a very high level. In: www.welt.de. WeltN24 GmbH, June 3, 2010, accessed on September 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stiftung Rätseltest No. 24: “the current special crossword puzzles for every day” (Susen puzzle editor). May 13, 2015, accessed January 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Foundation puzzle test No. 23: “BASTEI Die GROSSE Rätsel-Zeitung” (puzzle editor Susen). April 8, 2015, accessed January 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Juliane Fritz: Creating a crossword puzzle - explained by a professional! November 4, 2014, accessed January 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Anja Goritzka: Creating puzzles with passion: Interview with Johannes Susen. February 20, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Susen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German puzzle author and editor of puzzle magazines as well as organizer and organizer of German and international puzzle championships
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruehl