Udo Bartsch

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Udo Bartsch, games critic

Udo Bartsch (* 1968 in Hanover ) is a German journalist specializing in board , card and parlor games. He's the editor-in-chief of Spiel yet! and member of the board of the Game of the Year jury .

Life

After completing his teaching degree and legal clerkship in 1997, Bartsch started writing game reviews. It was then that his first review appeared in the gimmick . From 1998 to 2007 he wrote reviews for the player magazine Fairplay . Since then he has also published game reviews in daily newspapers, including the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung , the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung and the Stuttgarter Zeitung . Since 2007 he has been a freelancer for the specialist magazine spielbox, which is published in German and English . In 2015 he becomes editor-in-chief of the new magazine Spiel noch! , which, like the spielbox, is published by W. Nostheide Verlag.

Bartsch has been publishing reviews and reports from the gaming scene online at www.rezensions-fuer-millionen.de since 2008 .

In 2008 he became a member of the Spiel des Jahres association and the jury that decides on the game of the year and, from 2011, on the expert game of the year . Since 2009 he has been a member of the board of the Spiel des Jahres eV , first as secretary and later as treasurer.

Award

2013 Udo Bartsch is in the context of the game writers guild awarded awarded (SAZ) Alex-media award a special prize in which his in spielbox published meeting "The people called it Game stimulus" was recognized as an example. “The complex structure game 'Ora et Labora' by Uwe Rosenberg is precisely explained here in satirically exaggerated Bible text style . With a mixture of laconic and sacred indulgence, Bartsch manages to make the reader laugh, marvel and understand, ”writes the SAZ in its reasoning. He has almost created his own genre of text with his player reviews. "With a sense of style that is second to none, Bartsch navigates the reader through the game, immersing himself completely in the atmosphere and theme of the game, and doing the necessary gain of knowledge as if on the side."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 20 years ago (47): Mississippi Queen. In: Reviews for Millions. August 29, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Game News. In: hall9000.de. October 20, 2007, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ New board elected ( memento of April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) spiel-des-jahres.com
  4. ↑ Jury with a new board. In: spiel-des -jahres.com. July 30, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ ALEX Media Prize 2013: The winners. In: www.spieleautorenzunft.de. January 5, 2013, accessed January 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bartsch, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover