PLAY16 – Creative Gaming Festival

Alesja Serada

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 […]

Alexandra Schmidt

Amelie Kroll

Andreas Hedrich

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 ...

Anna Postels

Anne Hellmold

Arndt Kielstropp

Bente Stachowske

Christiane Schwinge

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 […]

Christina Kutscher

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 ...

Christina Metzler

Claudia Meiners

Claudia is one of the co-founders of PLAY and Creative Gaming. She loves the Festival and everything it comes with. She doesn’t play that much, but her favourite games are […]

Eric Rameken

Gunnar Neuhaus

Henrike Hapke

Jakob Kopczynski

Jakob Kopczynski is co-founder of the initiative Creative Gaming, member of jaf – Verein für medienpädagogische Praxis and lecturer at HAW Hamburg. At PLAY15, Jakob is part of the festival’s ...

John Helmbock

After a long career as an AI software designer/developer and mentor for young people; it is very rewading to work with such a motivated, creative and energetic team

Jonas Ibel

Josy Hohberg

Julia Knorre

Juliane Kühn

Karin Liau

Karin Liau studied “Instrumentalmusik mit dem Hauptfach Horn” at the university for music and theater in Hamburg and is on stage in and around Hamburg with the undoubtedly most ...

Katharina Appel

Kira Stomberg

Maik Helfrich

Maik is a freelance artist who work on stage design and light art and thereout his work as a VJ and on interactive installations brought him to his life-long passions: […]

Malte Plambeck

Mandy Kramer

Mats Mumme

Matthias Löwe

Matthias Löwe is engaged in workshops, talks and festivals in association with the Initiative Creative Gaming to establish an artistic and creative use of games. As an interaction designer, he is ...

Momme Opitz

Nico Bartelt

Nico Bartelt is a 3d game art student at SAE and is based in Hamburg. As a young child, he dreamed about making video-games and be a part of the […]

Nike Wilhelms

Nina Mair

Nina Mair studies media and information and as a freelance media pedagog she organizes workshops of the Initiative Creative Gaming e.V. and jaf – Verein für Medienpädagogische Praxis e.V. What ...

Rebecca Mehl

Sabrina Maaß

Sabrina Maaß completed her studies in pedagogy and sociology, focusing on media at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel in 2014. Now she is about to finish her Master degree in pedagogy and ...

Sascha Wollin

Simon Lehmann

Tanja Pfefferkorn

Tanja Pfefferkorn is pixel pirate, wordsmith, storyteller, creative mind and loves puns and poetry. She worked as a Graphic Designer in some advertising agencies and completed her study at the ...

Tina Ziegler

Since 1994, Tina Ziegler works in the media industry. She is one of the co-founders of PLAY and Creative Gaming. Since 2007 she is a freelance press secretary and project manager for […]

Tolke Weinhold

Tolke studied and worked in design and since 2010 in art direction. After more than five years of learning in the various categories of advertising she took a sabbatical to […]

Valentina Birke

Valentina Birke studies culture and media management in Hamburg. She works as a freelance media pedagog with the Initiative Creative Gaming and campaigns the creative and critical use of games ...

Vera Marie Rodewald

Vera Marie Rodewald is a media pedagog in Hamburg. She is also a research assistant for media education at the university of applied science and lecturer at the Leibniz university in ...