Uwe Rosenberg

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Uwe Rosenberg at Spiel 09 in Essen

Uwe Rosenberg (born March 27, 1970 in Aurich / Ostfriesland ) is a German game designer and mathematician . He is best known for the Bohnanza card game , which is also very successful in other countries such as the Netherlands and the USA. His greatest success as a game designer is winning the German Game Award 2008 with the game Agricola .

Life

Rosenberg began studying the development and mechanisms of games while still at school. During this time he published some postal games , some of which are now offered on the Internet platform www.omido.de. The publication of his most famous game, Bohnanza by Amigo , coincides with his student days. Since completing his statistics studies (topic of the diploma thesis: " Probability distributions in memory ") in Dortmund , he has devoted himself full-time to the development of games.

In the 1990s, Rosenberg learned the game of games by not only inventing games, but also regularly participating in game tournaments. With his team he came in 4th, 5th and 6th place in the German team championship in board game in different years.

In 2000 he founded the small publisher Lookout Games with other authors . Various extensions to Bohnanza were published here, partly in collaboration with Hanno Girke . However, larger projects are still being carried out by other publishers, e.g. B. Amigo, Pegasus and Kosmos .

Rosenberg has made a name for himself primarily through the development of innovative card game mechanisms. Another focus of his work are research-intensive games that deal with bizarre events from the past, and games that deal with women's and men's clichés. Since 2005 he has concentrated on complex business- themed development games: his first, Agricola , was published in October 2007 and was sold around 400,000 times by 2017. The second game in this series was Le Havre in October 2008 . With his third game In front of the gates of Loyang , Rosenberg completed his harvest time trilogy in October 2009. In 2011 he continued the success of Le Havre with the monastery game Ora et Labora . Since 2012 he has been working again with a small publisher, Tierra del Fuego : his debut Terra Mystica won the 2013 German Games Prize.

In 2016 he was again involved in founding a small publishing house: Edition Spielwiese. Here the first work, Cottage Garden , came from his pen. In 2014 he also published the two-person game Arler Erde , which is set in his East Frisian home village Arle , and in 2016 A Festival for Odin .

Rosenberg is married and has a daughter and three sons. He lives and works in Gütersloh . Until the end of 2011 he had a studio in Dortmund .

Mail games

  • Athletics (1987)
  • One sentence (1988)
  • Basketball (1989)

Games

Player with the game Agricola
  • Marlowe , Salagames (1993)
  • Times , Salagames (1993) / Fun Connection (1994)
  • Lifetime , Amigo (1996)
  • Bohnanza , Amigo (1997 and 2007 special edition in tin box)
  • Bohnanza Extension Set , Amigo (1997, 2001)
  • La Isla Bohnità , Amigo (1998)
  • Bargain Hunt , Queen Games (1998)
  • Klunker , Hans im Glück (1999) / Lookout Games (2005)
  • Be Right Away ASS (1999)
  • Mamma Mia! , Abacus Games (1999)
  • Space Beans , Amigo (1999, 2007)
  • Al Cabohne , Amigo (2000)
  • Babel , with Hagen Dorgathen, Kosmos (2000)
  • Titus , Adlung Games (2000)
  • Bali , Cosmos (2001)
  • High Bohn , with Hanno Girke , Amigo (2001)
  • Limits , Amigo (2001)
  • Mutabohn , Lookout Games (2001)
  • Ladybohn , Lookout Games (2002)
  • Bohn Hansa , Amigo (2003)
  • Yellowstone Park , Amigo (2003)
  • Anno Domini - Germany , with Urs Hostettler , Abacusspiele (2003)
  • Attribute 2 , with Marcel-André Casasola Merkle , Lookout Games (2004)
  • Bohnanza - Bohnentaler , Amigo (2004)
  • Bohnaparte , with Hanno Girke, Amigo (2004)
  • High Bohn Plus , with Hanno Girke
  • Schätzbold , Lookout Games (2004)
  • Sole Mio , Abacus Games (2004)
  • Telebohn , Lookout Games (2004)
  • Women & Men , Cosmos (2005)
  • We're pregnant , amigo (2005)
  • Rabohnzel , Lookout Games (2005)
  • Spelunke , Lookout Games (2005)
  • Nottingham , Abacus Games (2006) and Ueberplay (USA 2007)
  • Bohnkick , Amigo (2006)
  • Cannibean , Lookout Games (2006)
  • Typically woman, typically man , with Reiner Knizia and Hagen Dorgathen, Kosmos (2006), see also TV show Typisch Frau - Typisch Mann
  • Ladybohn , Amigo (2007)
  • Bohnröschen , Amigo (2007)
  • Bohnanza Fan Edition , Lookout Games (2007), Amigo (2008)
  • Agricola , Lookout Games (2007)
  • Do you know Di? , Cosmos (2008)
  • Le Havre , Lookout Games (2008)
  • Mamma Mia! Plus , Abacus Games (2009)
  • Women & Men - Bring-Along Game , Kosmos (2009)
  • Wendy's horse bazaar (Bohnanza adaptation), Amigo (2009)
  • Agricola - The Moor Farmers , Lookout Games (2009)
  • Bohnedikt , with Jochen Balzer, Lookout Games (2009), Amigo (2016)
  • At the Gates of Loyang , Hall Games (2009)
  • Le Havre: Le Grand Hameau , with Grzegorz Kobiela, Lookout Games (2010)
  • Bohnanza Fun & Easy , Amigo (2010) and as Bohnanza Fun & Easy rules for Carletto (Switzerland 2010)
  • Mother Bean , a variant of Ladybohn, Lookout Games (2010)
  • Psycho Meter , Heidelberger Spieleverlag (2010)
  • Farmer Seeks Wife - Card Game , Amigo (2010)
  • Merkator , Lookout Games (2010)
  • Bohnanza Pocket Version , Amigo and Tempo (2010)
  • Ora et Labora , Lookout Games (2011)
  • Agricola - The Netherlands Deck , Lookout Games (2011)
  • Würfel-Bohnanza , Amigo (2012)
  • Farmerama - The Board Game , Ravensburger (2012)
  • Agricola - The farmers and the cattle , Lookout Games (2012)
  • Bohn to be wild , Amigo (2012)
  • Landleven Spel (Bohnanza adaptation)
  • Le Havre - The Inland Port , Lookout Games (2012)
  • Agricola - More stalls for the dear cattle , Lookout Games (2012)
  • Agricola - The Belgium Deck , Lookout Games (2012)
  • Agricola - Even more stables for the lovely cattle , Lookout Games (2013)
  • Caverna - The Cave Builders , Lookout Games (2013)
  • The Glass Street , Tierra del Fuego Games (2013)
  • Sissi - The Bean Empress , Austrian Games Museum (2013)
  • Arler Earth , Tierra del Fuego Games (2014)
  • Patchwork , Lookout Games (2014)
  • Hengist , Lookout Games (2015)
  • Bohnanza: The Duel , Amigo (2016)
  • Bohnedikt with Jochen Balzer, Amigo (2016)
  • A festival for Odin , Tierra del Fuego (2016)
  • Cottage Garden , Edition Spielwiese / Pegasus Games (2016)
  • Viticulture - In Vino Veritas with Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone, Stonemaier Games (USA 2016), Tierra del Fuego (2016)
  • Agricola - Family Game, Lookout Games (2016)
  • Caverna - Cave Against Cave , Lookout Games (2017)
  • Nusfjord , Lookout Games (2017)
  • Indian Summer , Edition Spielwiese / Pegasus Spiele (2017)
  • Spring Meadow , Edition Spielwiese / Pegasus Spiele (2018)
  • Patchwork Express , Lookout Games (2018)
  • Caverna - Cave Against Cave - Era II , Lookout Games (2018)
  • Caverna - Forgotten Peoples (Expansion), Lookout Games (2018)
  • Reykholt , Frosted Games (2018)
  • Patchwork Doodle , Lookout Games (2019)
  • Bohna Nostra , Amigo (2019)
  • Nova Luna , Pegasus / Edition Spielwiese (2019)

Books

  • The Bohnanza Fan Book , Amigo (2007)
  • The big Bohnanza book , with Björn Pertoft and Christian Matzerath, Subito (2007)

Awards

  • Bohnanza came up with the list in 1997 at the Game of the Year and received the card game Price à la carte of gaming magazine Fairplay . In the 1997 selection for the German Games Prize , it took 5th place.
  • The games Mamma Mia and Babel were also placed on the shortlist for their years of publication and each took second place in the Fairplay card game award. Nottingham achieved a third place in this vote for the best card game of the respective year, bargain hunt a fourth and Space Beans a fifth place.
  • Agricola was voted the best game of 2007 on the website Hall9000.de and was awarded the “Special Prize Complex Game” 2008 by the Game of the Year jury . It also won the German Game Award in 2008, received the International Gamers Award and was voted “Game of the Year” and the winner in the “Gamer's Game” category by users of the Boardgamegeek website. There were further prizes in Portugal (JUG 2008, Jogo do Ano 2009), the Czech Republic (Hra roku 2008), Spain (Juego del Año en España 2008), France (Tric Trac d'Or 2008, As d'Or 2009), Poland (Gra Roku 2009) and the Netherlands ( Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2009). In 2008, when the most important Austrian game awards were awarded, Agricola was honored with the “ Games Hit for Experts ” award.
  • Le Havre was voted the best big game of 2008 on the Hall9000.de website. It took second place in the 2009 German Game Award and, like Agricola, received the International Gamers Award last year. When it was voted Game of the Year 2010, it was recognized by the renowned Games Magazine in the “Advanced Strategy Game” category.
  • At the gates of Loyang , the Hall9000.de website was voted the best big game of 2009. In 2010 it was honored with the Essener Feder for the best rules of the game in 2009/10.
  • Ora et Labora was recommended as one of the best games by the 'Game of the Year' jury in 2012 when it was voted “ Kennerspiel des Jahres” . It was game of the year in Portugal (Jogo do Ano 2012).
  • Agricola - The farmers and the dear cattle received the International Gamers Award in the category of two-person games in 2012.
  • Le Havre - The inland port received the International Gamers Award in 2013 in the two-person games category.
  • Patchwork was recommended as one of the best games by the 'Game of the Year' jury in 2015 when it was voted Game of the Year .
  • Arler Erde was recommended as one of the best games by the 'Game of the Year' jury in 2015 when it was voted Kennerspiel des Jahres .
  • A festival for Odin came third in the 2017 German Game Award.

literature

  • Frank Frigge: A board in your head: Dortmund game freaks on a master class , in: Westfälische Rundschau , local section Dortmund, May 20, 2000
  • Tobias Bolsmann: Trading beans and building towers , in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 25, 2000
  • Ferdinand Knauß: Hard work on fun , in: Welt am Sonntag , October 14, 2001 ( online )
  • Stefanie Schneck: Bread for games thanks to “Bohnanza” , in: Ruhr Nachrichten , July 31, 2002
  • Karsten-Thilo Raab (Ed.): Dortmunder Profiles. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2004, ISBN 978-3-8322-3488-1 .
  • Verena Bösche: From beans and bears in the classroom , in: Weser Kurier , February 9, 2008, Bremen
  • Wolfgang Wotke: He likes it complex and bizarre , in: Westfalen-Blatt , October 14, 2008, Gütersloh
  • Marius Giessmann: The homage to the gaming operation , in: Neue Westfälische , October 18, 2008, Gütersloh
  • Carsten Dierig: The playful nation , in: Die Welt , Wirtschaft, October 25, 2008 ( online )
  • Martin Zehren: Export hit “German Games” , in: Westfalenspiegel 06/2009, pp. 21–23, Ardey-Verlag, Münster
  • Kerstin Krupp: Trend to material battle , in: Berliner Zeitung , p. 2, 11./12. December 2010, Berlin ( online )
  • Stefan Ducksch: First game, first hit , in: Neue Westfälische , October 23, 2013, Bielefeld ( online )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Wibben: Auricher wins the German Game Prize , in: Ostfriesische Nachrichten , December 6, 2008.
  2. ↑ Tirza Meyer: A classic: Bohnanza , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , p. 12, September 2, 2012, Frankfurt.
  3. ↑ a b c René Gralla: Playful arithmetic master. New Germany, April 8, 2017; accessed on April 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ Andreas Böhme: Classic games from Dortmund , in: Westfälische Rundschau , October 2, 2008, Dortmund ( online , accessed on August 5, 2014).
  5. ↑ Steffi Tenhaven: He just wants to play! , in: Ruhr Nachrichten , October 21, 2008 ( online , accessed August 5, 2014).
  6. ↑ Max Rocker: German game award for former Aurichians , in: Ostfriesische Nachrichten , September 17, 2013 ( online , accessed on August 5, 2014).
  7. ^ Siegfried Scheffler: Uwe Rosenberg turns players into cave builders , in: Die Glocke , November 13, 2013, Oelde.
  8. ↑ Mike Lautenschläger: Herner Spielarten , in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , October 24, 2008 ( online , accessed August 5, 2014).
  9. ↑ 2017 award winners ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2017 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. , spiel-essen.com, accessed October 7, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spiel-essen.com
personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich , East Frisia