PLAY16 - Creative Gaming Festival » Team

Alesja Serada

Karin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:16:08 +0000

Alesja Serada has worked for a number of game and mobile startups as a PR/marketing specialist in the country of her birth, Belarus. Now she writes her second BA thesis on values in casual games at European Humanities University in Vilnius.

Alexandra Schmidt

Karin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:09:45 +0000

Amelie Kroll

AndiH — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:39:13 +0000

Andreas Hedrich

Valentina — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:08:30 +0000

As the initiator and spokesperson of the Initiative Creative Gaming, Andreas Hedrich has been pleading for the creative use of video games in education and to make digital gaming culture visible and come alive. He teaches media eduaction and active media relations at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg. Furthermore, he is chairman for Mediennetz Hamburg e. V., member of jaf – Verein für medienpädagogische Praxis Hamburg e. V., speaker of GMK-Landesgruppe Hamburg and associate of Frische Medien. As media pedagog and media producer it is important for him to be responsible for projects that highlight the creative use of media and their ability to be used by everybody as a medium for communication.

If asked what his favorite game is, he answers “Riding a bicycle in my head”.

Anna Postels

Karin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:03:52 +0000

Anne Hellmold

AndiH — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:32:58 +0000

Arndt Kielstropp

Karin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:26:30 +0000

Bente Stachowske

Karin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:20:01 +0000

Christiane Schwinge

Valentina — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:20:33 +0000

Christiane Schwinge holds a degree in pedagogy and works as a freelance media pedagog in different areas of education. She is founding member and speaker of the free and nonprofit Initiative Creative Gaming, thus she campaigns for the creative, reflected and critical use of digital games. Since its opening in 2015, Christiane is part of the direction of the ComputerSpielSchule Hamburg, an open and media pedagogic institution for adolescents and adults taking place in Bücherhallen Hamburg. Besides, she works as a lecturer at different universities. Since 2016, she also coordinates the MINTforum Hamburg.

Among her favorite games are B.U.T.T.O.N, Octodad and Mimics, because they are equally silly, funny and unplayable.

Christina Kutscher

Valentina — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:26:17 +0000

Christina Kutscher studied English and German and is soon about to start her Master degree. Besides she is an editor, media pedagogue and writes on her blog keingame.de.

She has many favorite games, especially those that are creative, have a well written story or simply are a lot of fun like Terraria, Mirror’s Edge, Final Fantasy IX and Life is Strange.