Klaus Teuber

Klaus Teuber
Teuber in 2017
Born	(1952-06-25) June 25, 1952 (age 69)
Nationality	German
Occupation	Game designer
Known for	Board game developer

Klaus Teuber (born June 25, 1952^[1]) is a German former dental technician and designer of board games. He is best known for designing the strategy board game Catan.

Career[]

Teuber won the Spiel des Jahres ("Game of the Year") award four times: for The Settlers of Catan, Barbarossa, Drunter und Drüber and Adel Verpflichtet. Teuber's By Hook or Crook, published by Avalon Hill in 1991, was an early import of a German-style game into the American market.^[2]

Personal life[]

Teuber retired from his profession as a dental technician to become a full-time game designer in 1999. As of 2007, he lives in Darmstadt with his wife Claudia. They have two sons, Guido and Benny.^[3]

Games[]

• The Settlers of Catan (and its many expansions, as well as the video game version, Catan)
  • The Settlers of Canaan, a legally licensed and biblically-oriented version of Catan. It is not clear whether Teuber or someone else developed this edition.
• Löwenherz or Domaine
• Entdecker
• Drunter und Drüber
• Adel Verpflichtet (var.: Hoity Toity, Hook or Crook, Fair Means or Foul)
• Barbarossa
• Timberland, a German-style board game based on woodland management that came in ninth in the Deutscher Spiele Preis (German Game Prize).^[4][when?]
• Pop Belly Pigs^[5]

See also[]

• Going Cardboard, (documentary; includes an interview with Teuber)
• List of Klaus Teuber games

References[]

External links[]

• "Special K", article on Klaus Teuber's impact on the game industry
• "Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre", article on the process through which Klaus Teuber refined Settlers of Catan