About the Jury

About the Jury

The winners of most categories of the DCP are determined in a two-stage system. First, twelve expert juries deliberate on the nominations in most categories before the main jury selects the winners from these nominations. In the categories ‘Best German Game’, ‘Best International Game’ and ‘Special Jury Prize’, the main jury determines the winners from the totality of all submitted games / special prize candidates. However, the expert juries may make recommendations for these categories. Two members of each expert jury are also part of the main jury at the same time, which consists of up to forty people. The main jury decides on the final award.

Jury Vorsitz

Fachjury

Prof. Dr. Sabiha Ghellal

Prof. Dr. Sabiha Ghellal

HdM Stuttgart

Dr Sabiha Ghellal is Professor of Experience and Game Design at HdM Stuttgart. She teaches and conducts research in the Mobile Media degree programme. Her work focuses on the creation and exploration of interactive designs, with a particular emphasis on digital games, mixed reality applications and transmedia storytelling. As a founding member of the HdM's Institute for Games and former curator of ‘Game Zone’ at the International Animation Film Festival in Stuttgart, she is actively involved in various non-profit initiatives to promote the games industry in Germany. Together with the Glasgow School of Arts (UK), she is developing a doctoral programme with the aim of advancing research in the field of game design and addressing social challenges in the areas of education, health, mobility and environmental protection.

Dorian Auer
Ubisoft
Jens Bahr
Off The Beaten Track
Sarah Bashir
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Marie Bielefeld
Institut Spawnpoint
Valentina Birke
Super Crowd Entertainment
Wolfgang Duhr
gamigo
Prof. Dr. Sonia Fizek
TH Cologne
Thomas Friedmann
Funatics Software
Thomas Feibel
FEIBEL.DE
Fritz Fölster
Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK)
Amanda Förtsch
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Patricia Geiger
Razer
Prof. Dr. Sabiha Ghellal
HdM Stuttgart
Lynne Glaner
Actress and Voice Actress
Sarah Gloeckler
Riot Games
Silja Gülicher-Dütsch
Nintendo
Nicole Hanisch
Computerspielemuseum
Marie Havemann
Sandbox Interactive
Daniel Helbig
Megagon Industries
Géraldine Hohmann
gamespodcast.de & OK COOL
Lea Irion
Südwest Presse
Sylvia Jorde
Blossom Seeker
Lara Keilbart
Freelance Journalist
Christian Kluckner
Chimera Entertainment
Tobias Kopka
Curatomic
Dr. Lisa König
Zentrum für didaktische Computerspielforschung / PH Freiburg
Ulrike Küchler
Gamebook Studio HQ
Benjamin Lochmann
Pixel Maniacs
Dirk Ludewig
nerdstar
Prof. Dr. Alexander Marbach
Hochschule Mittweida
Marylin Marx
Webedia
Max Neu
Landesverband Kinder- und Jugendfilm Berlin
René Nold
weltenbauer.
Dr. Enrique Pérez
BIMM University
Prof. Dr. Johanna Pirker
TU Munich
Fabian Quosdorf
mixed.world
Jan Reichert
kr3m. media
Abir Roy
Amazon Web Services
Michael Schade
ROCKFISH Games
Dieter Schoeller
Headup Games
Lea Schönfelder
Fein Games
Andreas Sirch
Aesir Interactive
Nicole Spitzer
Twitch
Maike Steinweller
Wooga
Claudia Stricker
playzo
Thorsten Suckow
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
Magnus von Keil
ARD / RBB / SAT.1
Jan Wagner
MetaMorphic Digital Studio

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