Lecturers
Here you can find information about each lecturer or members of
the organization team.
Johanna Koljonen Johanna Koljonen orgnised nine larps in Finland before moving
abroad and was the editor-in-chief on the larp fanzine Panclou,
which was very influential in the Nordic Scene in late 1990s, but
which actually existed only as a way for the poor student to pay
for trips to Knutpunkt. Later she became a respected larp critic
and lecturer. She still helps make other people's larp and is
currently in the early planning stages for a horror game inspired
by the movie The Shining.
Professionally Johanna Koljonen a cultural journalist working for
newspapers and for the Swedish radio. She has a BA in English
Literature from Oxford University and is studying cognitive
semiotics very, very slowly at Århus in Denmark. more
Tomáš Kopeček (Permon) Is flying around larps, experience, simulation and educative
games for a good number of years. During that time he organized
dozen of quite different larps and was involved in developing and
teaching of simulation games with roleplaying elements at several
universities.
Theory considers important as starting point for understanding the
phenomena and to allow further development and improvement of
games. more
Ola Kościewicz (Ol) Ola "ol" Kościewicz is a student of biology She likes
to draw and paint a lot. Her LARP specialisation are LARP
adaptations and romances. She is very fond of 17th century
adventures with pirates and muskeeters. She plays and makes LARPs
regulary. Ola is not only a good scriptwriter but also a wonderful
actress. She even plays in student's theather. more
Dominika Kováčová (Morwen) Her first contact with the SK larp scene came in 2004. Three
years later she discovered what “outland” means. Even though she
helped with some events around Bratislava, she never really
organized something truly own. Recently has been flirting with
freeform and jeepform. more
Agnieszka Labenz (Aileen) Agnieszka “Aileen” Labenz has played her first LARP 14 years
ago. His favorite genre is open-air fantasy and post-apo games.
Since 2009, Aileen is a member of "Akademia Rozwoju
Deadline" association, who are organizing LARP called
“Fantazjada”. At “Deadline” she is responsible for fundrising,
public relation and make – up. In real life she is a EU funds
department director in an enterprise. more
Piotr Labenz Piotr Labenz has organized his first LARP 14 years ago and has
since
been active in the Polish scene. His favorite genre is
open-air
fantasy games with a focus on ambience and action. Since 2009,
Piotr
is a member of an association called "Deadline",
who are organizing
"Fantazjada", one of Poland's larger LARPs. In real
life he is a
consultant, and accordingly he tries to instil some structure
and
planning into the LARP creation process. more
Petra Lukačovičová (Reinita) Core member of Prague by Night civic association, author and
co-author of several different larps and RPG storyteller.
Together with David Maleček and two other people organizing
"Ability Development Summer Camps". For more than three
years she takes care of the larping programme line there,
introducing some of her own and tutoring the participants how to
create other.
Tutor (together with David as well) of the "City larps"
hobby group for young people. more
David Maleček (Ambeřan) Founding member of Prague by Night civic association, author and
co-author of several different larps and RPG storyteller.
Together with Petra Lukačovičová and two other people organizing
"Ability Development Summer Campss", where larping is one
of main programme lines. Lecturer (together with Petra as well) of
the "City larps" hobby group for young people.
As a quality assurance and process specialist in civil life always
trying to implement some of the QA rules into larp creating process
(with very unsatisfactory success ratio). more
Petr Pouchlý (Jezevec) Longtime storyteller and creator of stories for role playing
games. Active in organization, realization and creation, the author
of more than a dozen of larps. more
Frederik Berg Østergaard & Tobias Wrigstad Frederik Berg Østergaard and Tobias Wrigstad are scandinavian
gamewrights that travel the role-playing universe spreading the
jeepform gospel. Jeepform is a rules-light freeform role-playing
style that advocates the importance of meta play, co-designing form
and story and various form tricks for keeping the flow of the game
while telling stories with complex structures. more
Petr Špiřík (Zappo) Enjoying larps since 2001. Tried various genres and formats, but
still prefers outdoor fantasy games. In best case with strong
atmosphere, dynamic story and action. Organized several games and
participated in creation of few others.
The dream is to either play or organize really strong horror or
cyberpunk larp.
Tends to be critical in analytical way, hopefully constructive -
but do not ask for an opinion, if you don't want to hear
it. more
Kuba Tabisz (Fingrin) Kuba "fingrin" Tabisz works as a journalist in a local
newspaper. He is also writing short stories. His interest lays in
experimenting with LARPs. He thinks that LARPs are somewhere
between real theather and game. In his opinion you can change into
LARP almost every aspect of reality. From real stories to modern
art. more
Martin Vaňo (Marťušák) Professional computer games designer and translator who's
creating larp games since 1996, which seems a little scary to him.
He's been making a renowned postapocalyptic larp
"P.A.S.S". He only plays larp occasionally - he's
been a total outsider to Czech larp scene for some time, which
makes his approach a little specific (at least it was specific
earlier). more