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Klaus Wilhelm Heinrich Teuber was a German board game designer best known as the creator of Catan. Originally working as a dental technician, he began designing games first as a hobby then as a full-time career.
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business · German board game designer (1952–2023) · game designer · dental technician · entrepreneur · board game designer · video game developer · also Klaus Teuber, Teuber
Born 25 June 1952 · Died 1 April 2023 · Q61088
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“When I had trouble in my former profession and needed a mental vacation, I read a book about witches and decided to make a game that follows the story first. Each development of game, I wanted to experience the world of the novel.”
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WUWM: Klaus Teuber, Catan board game creator, dies at 70
Yahoo: Klaus Teuber, Creator of CATAN Board Game, Dies at 70
Fox News: Catan board game creator Klaus Teuber dies after brief illness at age 70
New York Daily News: Settlers of Catan creator Klaus Teuber dies at 70
Yahoo: Catan board game creator, Klaus Teuber, dies at 70
Sun Sentinel: Klaus Teuber, creator of the Catan board game, dies at 70
Engadget: Catan creator Klaus Teuber has passed away at 70
Died 2023-04-01.
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Dan Zak wrote in The Washington Post, "Among hobbyists and gamers he was revered like a rock star, but he looked and acted and sounded like a man who tinkered with stuff in his basement
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Sales of Catan surged during the first five months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, as board games became popular during the worldwide lockdown
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Received a special As d'Or in recognition of his lifetime achievement at the Festival International des Jeux in France
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And his sons now direct the family business
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And his sons Benjamin and Guido are directors while his wife Claudia and his daughter also have roles as bookkeeper and tester
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Sold the dental laboratory, which he had taken over from his father
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Awarded Deutscher Spielepreis for Löwenherz (1997).
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Teuber started designing The Settlers of Catan, inspired by the history of Viking settlers in Iceland
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Making it an early German-style board game import
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Adel Verpflichtet (Hoity Toity) in 1990, Drunter und Drüber (Wacky Wacky West) in 1991, and Die Siedler von Catan (The Settlers of Catan) in 1995
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Born 1952-06-25.
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In the village of Rai-Breitenbach, West Germany, under the Breuberg castle
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