| Biography: | I have been born in Muenster/Westphalia in 1970, and grew up in Bremen in Northern Germany.
Since 1999 I have been living in Berlin.
As long as I can remember I have liked playing games. Mostly it wasn't about winning -
except when I played with my sisters - but rather about understanding. And about learning,
which I liked and still like to do. By the way, did anybody else also believe that
Kamchatka was a country in Asia and that Canada didn't really exist (where should it have
been, anyway, with the Northwest-Territories covering a great deal of the North American
continent)?
From playing I soon got to changing and/or improving rules. Unfortunately, the rules of the
legendary fan-game, which my sister Martina and I designed on the board of Riskin the
early 80's have not survived the last 15 years.
I soon started to put down the rules to games I designed. The prototypes, however, remained
silently in the drawers I put them in after finishing the drafts. Partly, they are still
there in their boxes.
In 1994 I visited the Tagungshaus Drübberholz - Spielezentrum Niedersachsen for the first
time, attending one of the regular games weekends. This is where I got to know more
dedicated gamers, after I had already joined the Bremen game-club Spielrausch e.V..
Besides, I met game authors, males all of them, as there are only a little number of female
published game authors, namely Friedemann Friese and Wolfgang Panning.
In 1998 Wolfgang, Friedemann and me organised a seminar for game authors and wannabes. A byproduct of this seminar was my game Stimmvieh, which I published in May 1998 on my
own. In the meantime I have published my second game, Hossa! which I presented to the
public during the games fair in Essen in October 2000. |
