Manager
Hans-Peter Stoll
As manager of SAZ, Hans-Peter Stoll is your contact person in the membership administration, for all organizational issues, for events and for the media.
Hans-Peter Stoll has been a game designer since 2003 and an SAZ member since 2007. His first game was "Freeze" (later "Bühne frei" at Ravensburger), the first improvisational theatre game ever. He is an improvisational actor himself and also works on many creative, artistic levels as well as a freelance consultant and trainer. For many years he was a moderator at the German Game Designer Conference in Weilburg. Since August 2020 he is manager of SAZ.
Consultant for intellectual property issues and public affairs
Christian Beiersdorf
Christian Beiersdorf is responsible for communication with political parties and ministries, with various cultural institutions and with game publishers. He represents the SAZ in the Initiative Urheberrecht (authors' rights initiative) and in the Council for Socio-Culture and Cultural Education of the German Cultural Council. He is a member of the expert committee on intellectual property rights in the German Cultural Council. He advises the board and members on all political issues.
Christian Beiersdorf has been active in the games industry for over 35 years, developed games himself and is the owner of the Projekt Spiel agency. From 2009 to 2015 he was a member of the board, then from 2015 to 2020 he was manager of SAZ.