Film, media culture and games scholar with a long-term track as researcher and teacher at different German universities (Mainz, Siegen, Kiel, Freiburg). Currently associate professor for media cultural studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Additional practical work as journalist, book author, editor and curator (international exhibition "Film and Games", Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt a.M.).
Max Kanderske studied Media Studies and Japanese Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. As a research assistant at the Chair of Science, Technology & Media Studies at the University of Siegen, his current research focuses on augmented & virtual reality research, media geography and sensor media. In addition to the interfaces used, the practices of navigation and interaction with digital objects as well as the adequate methodological representation of mixed reality content are also the subject of his academic work.
Claudius Clüver (M.A. Media Culture) is a research assistant at the Chair of Media Aesthetics at the University of Siegen. His research focuses on the relationship between games on the one hand and the economy on the other. In addition to (digital) games, analogue and especially historical games are also an important subject. Other areas of research are materialism in game studies and ludomorphology as well as the culture and politics of playful phenomena. Claudius Clüver is working on a dissertation with the working title "The History of the Game as a Commodity". He has published on the organisation of labour in the games industry and on the history of seriality in games. He is also involved in the design and development of game culture in Siegen.
Autorisierte deutsche Übersetzung des 2001 in der ersten Ausgabe des Game Studies-Journals erschienen Artikels „Games Telling Stories?“ von Jesper Juul. Das Original ist online abrufbar unter http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/juul-gts/
