Hi

This questions should be answered by a researcher with good German langauge skills.

? How many Germans can play the card game Skat?

? How many people do play Skat online?

? How many Germans are members of Skat clubs or associations?

? If found: Any numbers of the turnover made trough Skat cash-contests

Thank you in advance!

Regards, 

Raus

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 13 Mar 2006 09:14 PST

Dear Maus, 

I have the answer to only 2 of the questions: 
- "24 Millionen Deutsche spielen Skat Über 500.000 Spieler pflegen
wöchentlich das Spiel, über 50.000 aktive Mitglieder im DSKV
(Deutscher Skatverband e.V.)."
(SOURCE: Berlin-Brandenburg Skat Journal, June 2005,
<http://www.skatverband.de/upload_user/lv01/Skat-Journale/SJ-2005-06.pdf?PHPSESSID=ce3f939687d33843aeac6ad58a0e0583>).

However, I failed to find out how many play online and what is the
turnover made through skat cash-contests.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 13 Mar 2006 12:02 PST

ooops Raus.

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Clarification of Question by thorstenrauser-ga on 14 Mar 2006 07:39 PST

I am sure you did everything possible. Please mark the question as answered. 

RausMaus

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Clarification of Question by thorstenrauser-ga on 17 Mar 2006 06:15 PST

Come on, mark it as answered. I am satisfied with what you got!

Dear Raus, 

I am sorry, I haven't been notified that you replied. According to the
German Skat Association, 24 million Germans play the game; with
half-a-million playing it weekly; and there are 50,000 members of the
association.

"24 Millionen Deutsche spielen Skat Über 500.000 Spieler pflegen
wöchentlich das Spiel, über 50.000 aktive Mitglieder im DSKV
(Deutscher Skatverband e.V.)."
(SOURCE: Berlin-Brandenburg Skat Journal, June 2005,
<http://www.skatverband.de/upload_user/lv01/Skat-Journale/SJ-2005-06.pdf?PHPSESSID=ce3f939687d33843aeac6ad58a0e0583>).

By the way, a book from 1987 claims that "over 12 million Germans play
skat" (not mentioning the source of this figure:
"Das große Buch vom Skat"
<http://www.skatspezies.de/lit/poetsch.htm>). Either that the
Unification has done wonders to Skat, or that it became really
popular.

The Unification is important here - because apparently, in the Neue
Bundeslaender, most people play with "German Decks" (Deutsche Blatt),
while in the "Old" Bundeslaender, most people play with the French
Decks. Today, 85% of the players use the French one, but German
colours have been applied:
Das Vier-Farben-Farbblatt 
<http://www.skat-online.com/4farb.html> 

There is also an article that might be interesting (it is off-line): 
Schwarz, Reinhard * Nach der Vereinigung reizen auch die deutschen
Skatspieler wieder gemeinsam. Cartophilia Helv. 2/1991

Information on (regular) competitions could be found at the Skat
Association's webpage:
<http://www.skatwelt.com/skatwelt/terminkalender.jsp> 


Skat Online
===========

The "DOSKV - Deutscher Online Skatverband e.V." (German Skat
Association) was founded in 2004. The "off line" Skat Association
claims on their website that there are 100,000 members registered for
the online games:
"Über 28 Millionen gespielte Spiele jährlich Über 100.000 registrierte Spieler"
<http://www.skat-online.com/> 

It has organised since online competitions and there is also an Online
Skat Bundesliga:

Bundesliga
<http://www.doskv.de/turniere_bundesliga.htm> 

2005 German Championship
<http://www.doskv.de/dm2005/plo_gewinne.html> 

2006 German Championship
<http://www.skat-international.de/e.php?a=upload&b=95> 

They also have a list of online Skat clubs
<http://www.doskv.de/clubs.htm> 


Skat sites
==========
Skat Spezies
<http://www.skatspezies.de/index.htm> - a proud "East" club, still
using German Decks.

Preisskat
<http://www.preisskat.info/> - information regarding tournments. 

Skat-Turniere
<http://www.skat-turniere.de/> 

I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.