Wolfgang Kramer

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The German game designers Wolfgang Kramer (left) and Michael Kiesling at the Spiel 2017 in Essen

Wolfgang Kramer (born June 29, 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German game designer .

Life

Kramer left high school after the eleventh grade to complete a commercial training. He then worked for the automotive supplier company Bosch for 27 years . In 1988 he resigned but was granted a three-year right of return. The trained business economist and computer scientist became self-employed and has been developing board and card games full-time since 1989 . He is considered one of the most important representatives of the internationally recognized German-language author's game .

In total, Kramer has published more than 100 games. He received the coveted Game of the Year award five times . Kramer has also made a name for himself as the author of puzzle books (“The Palace of Riddles”, “The Riddles of the Pyramid”).

One of the special features of Kramer games is that they are often created in collaboration with other authors. In 1989, Kramer founded the KRAG team to develop communicative games. The game of the year 1996 El Grande was developed together with Richard Ulrich , the games Tikal and Torres together with Michael Kiesling .

Kramer strip

Kramer strip from Heimlich & Co.

By Wolfgang Kramer is Kramer bar named: In his 1984 published game Heimlich & Co. is shown a bar on the edge of the board, marked on the one, how many points each player. This form of counting has been used in many games since then.

Ludography (selection)

  • 1974: speed
  • 1980: Niki Lauda's Formula 1 - Game of the Year - list
  • 1986: Around the world in 80 days
  • 1986: Heimlich & Co. - Game of the Year
  • 1987: On the move - game of the year
  • 1988: Roman Forum
  • 1989: Midnight Party , Game of the Year shortlist
  • 1990: Tabaijana - Escape from Fire Island , Game of the Year - shortlist
  • 1990: Holiday AG - 6th place in the German Games Prize
  • 1991: Corsaro - Game of the Year, special award for children’s game
  • 1994: Big Boss
  • 1994: 6 takes! - German Games Prize
  • 1996: with Richard Ulrich : El Grande - Game of the Year, German Games Prize
  • 1999: with Richard Ulrich: Die Händler - 5th place German Games Prize
  • 1999: with Michael Kiesling : Tikal - Game of the Year, German Games Award
  • 2000: with Michael Kiesling: Java - 9th place German Games Prize
  • 2000: Piraten-Pitt - German Games Prize (German Children's Games Prize)
  • 2000: with Richard Ulrich: Die Fürsten von Florenz - 3rd place German Games Prize
  • 2000: with Michael Kiesling: Torres - Game of the Year, 2nd place German Games Prize
  • 2002: with Michael Kiesling: Pueblo - Game of Games , 8th place German Games Prize
  • 2002: with Michael Kiesling: Mexika
  • 2004: Raja - Nominated for Game of the Year
  • 2005: with Michael Kiesling: Verflixxt! - Nominated for the game of the year
  • 2006: with Michael Kiesling: Celtica
  • 2007: Origo
  • 2007: with Markus Lübke: Colosseum - 10th place German Games Prize
  • 2008: Jürgen PK Grunau and Hans Raggan : Blox - Nominated for the game of the year
  • 2009: 11 takes!
  • 2010: Asara - Nominated for Game of the Year
  • 2010: with Michael Kiesling: Tikal II: The forgotten temple
  • 2012: with Michael Kiesling: The Palaces of Carrara
  • 2013: with Michael Kiesling: Nauticus
  • 2013: with Michael Kiesling: Glück Auf
  • 2014: with Michael Kiesling: Abluxxen
  • 2015: with Michael Kiesling: Adventure Land
  • 2016: with Reinhard Staupe : X takes!

Awards

In 2012 he was awarded the special prize for the German Games Prize for his life's work.

Fonts

  • The Palace of Riddles: A book to ponder, puzzle and marvel at. Hugendubel, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-88034-843-X .
  • The puzzle of the pyramid: who can solve the secrets of the underground labyrinth? Hugendubel, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88034-921-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 25, 2010, page C3
  2. ↑ German Games Prize 2012 - Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from September 20, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscherspielepreis.de
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Germany