Knut-Michael Wolf

Knut-Michael Wolf (born July 14, 1945 in Bad Pyrmont ) is a German game critic and game designer who is known under the pseudonym KMW.

Act

Wolf developed his first own games in the mid-1970s. The first game that was published was published by FX Schmid in 1974 under the name Hoppla Tante and was a revision of the game Mensch ärgere dich nicht . According to his own statements, he developed the game as a sextant , as it was played in its version with six figures per player. The publisher reduced the number of characters to four and renamed the game. In the following year, the publisher published the game again slightly modified under the title Avanti . He also developed suggestions for improving existing titles. This resulted in many years of freelance editorial work for several game publishers. He recorded successes for Dampfross , which was named Game of the Year in 1984 after its adaptation , as well as Café International in 1989 . The rules of the game for Reinhold Wittig's game Hotu Matua , written by Wolf, received the Essen pen in 1991 as the best rules of the year.

In 1977 the first edition of "Wolfs Wirtschaftsbrief" appeared , which was renamed Die Pöppel-Revue a year later . When Wolf sold the magazine to Friedhelm Merz at the end of 1985 , the circulation had risen from the original 6 to 1,000. At the end of 1995, Wolf started KMW's Spielpl @ tz , one of the first German-language websites about board and card games, and made his initials his trademark. In 2000 the w. nostheide publishes the website and made it the online edition of its Spielbox magazine under the name spielbox.de . Spielbox has been cooperating with the spiel.de portal since 2014, so that the database established by KMW is maintained and maintained there.

Wolf was a member of the jury for the Essen spring from 2000 to 2010 and has been a member of the jury for the International Gamers Award since 2008 .

Games

• 1974 Oops Aunt ( FX Schmid )
• 1975 Avanti (FX Schmid)
• 1984 Network ( Edition Guinea Fowl and others)
• 1985 Circus Roncalli ( Schmidt Games )
• 1986 Gold theft in London ( ASS Altenburger )
• 1991 Slogan (Schmidt Games)
• 1991 Tel Aviv (Wusel)
• 1992 Lügen- Kniffel (Schmidt Spiele)
• 1994 Lion King (Schmidt Spiele)
• 1994 Lion King ( Klee Games )
• 1995 Pocahontas at the waterfall (Klee games)
• 1995 Pocahontas Dice Game (Klee Games)
• 1995 Pocahontas family game (Klee games)
• 1995 Pocahontas man don't get angry (Schmidt Spiele)
• 1996 Pocahontas - Adventure game (Schmidt Spiele)
• 1996 Pocahontas - Canoe Race (Schmidt Games)
• 2003 fly catcher (game box )

Awards

• 1984 Game of the Year : Shortlist for Network
• 1991 Essen pen for Hotu Matua
• 2002 Inno-Spatz of the Göttingen game authors meeting “awarded for his special merits in the game scene: KMW is an author and rule translator, launched the Pöppel-Revue, founded KMW's playground (the forerunner of the Spielbox-Online website) and is a games critic active".
• Special prize for the German Games Prize 2016

Web links

• Wolf on the page Spieleautoren.de
• Göttingen game authors meeting 2002
• Knut-Michael Wolf in the Luding games database
• Knut-Michael Wolf in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spiel.de in conversation with Knut-Michael Wolf, spielbox reviewer. Posted on November 18, 2018 on youtube.com; accessed on November 20, 2018.
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 14, 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. 
3. ↑ https://gesellschaftsspiele.piele.de/
4. ↑ Report to Spielbox  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from June 16, 2008: New jury member (accessed November 22, 2009)  
5. ↑ General Strategy Committee Members ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.internationalgamersawards.net (English) 
6. ↑ 25 years ago Game of the Year 1984: DAMPFROSS by David G. Watts Game of the Year 1984: DAMPFROSS by David G. Watts at Game of the Year
7. ↑ How to play Hotu Matua ( 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. at kosmos.de 
8. ↑ Göttingen 2002 - 21st Game Designer Meeting ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2011 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 reich-der-spiele.com 
9. ↑ Sparrow for the wolf (PDF; 58 kB) in the Spielbox 2002, issue 3, page 98