Klaus Zoch

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Klaus Zoch (born April 30, 1953 in Zell am Harmersbach ) is a German game designer and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of the game publishers Zoch Verlag , HUCH! & friends (today HUCH!) and other small publishers as well as co-founder of the gaming company Hutter Trade . His games have been awarded the Children's Game of the Year and the German Children's Games Prize .

life and work

Klaus Zoch grew up in Hornberg and graduated from high school in Hausach in 1972 . After completing his community service, Zoch studied physics in Freiburg from 1974 , but dropped out in 1982. He then worked in an organic shop and in an auction house. From 1984 he was more involved with games, from 1985 he developed his own games.

In 1987 he founded Zoch Verlag together with his school friend Albrecht Werstein and became a full-time game inventor and manufacturer. In the first year of the Zoch publishing house, his games Bausack , Mäusefest and Schneckenrennen appeared .

In 1988 Zoch moved to France in the Vosges . In 1993 the Zoch publishing house was converted into a GmbH and Klaus Zoch bought a farmhouse in Clefcy (France), where in 1999 he founded the company Jeux des Clefcy . In 2004, together with Hermann Hutter and Albrecht Werstein, he founded the game trading company Hutter Trade and the game publisher HUCH & friends ; 2007 with Henry Buck and Volker Maas the game publisher Chili Spiele .

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SURNAME Zoch, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game designer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell am Harmersbach