IN THE PAST WE WERE DREI MAGIER …

… Now we have transformed into Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne GbR (Yes, you haven’t misread, rabbits have civic rights from now on)

...And here are the Drei Hasen:
Kathi Kappler, author, designer and editor
Rolf Vogt, illustrator, graphic designer and author
Johann Rüttinger, graphic designer, illustrator and product developer

All three of them come from the artwork, book, and games world.

Kathi Kappler and Johann Rüttinger sold their publishing company DMS – which was founded in 1994 – to Schmidt Spiele in Berlin on 1 July 2008. It was no „hostile take-over“ but a „friendly handover“ caused by impairment to health that made KK and JR take this step.

„It was a tough decision as the company was our „common baby“. We wanted to prove from the very beginning that it is possible – even for a small company – to successfully launch good games for children and adults on the hard-fought market. From day one we have not only considered the German speaking market but the whole wide world. These were 15 thrilling, exciting years – never-ending ups and downs – but the success proved us right. But if one of the two partners is absent for long periods again and again it just gets too difficult for the other one.” This is what both of them say – the two are also marriage partners in real life and live in a mill by the river Aisch between Nurenberg and Wuerzburg. “It really was not easy to let go our “child” but it was good and the right to do. Now we can establish something new – without ruffle or excitement!”

The third rabbit Rolf Vogt, “ARVI”, is a very old friend of DM. Most of the titles and artworks of the games come from his hand respectively from his mind. He will continue to do the artwork for DMS under Schmidt Spiele but at the same time publish, illustrate and design books as partner of K.K. and J.R.

As there are already so many books we want everything we do in the future to be a little bit different and special. There always has to be a story behind the story. We don’t have a “round table” where marketing specialists identify and fill market niches. We know this world just too well having earned our money as so-called commercial graphics designers in the advertising industry. So we could see how things work, what is so awfully important and what matters apparently.