Federal Minister Dorothee Bär Announces Comeback of Games Department at DCP
In her first speech to the industry as the new minister responsible for games, Dorothee Bär delivered with wit, charm, and great news: she will revive a dedicated games department in her ministry, which had been abolished by former Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck.
It was one of the highlights of the evening: Dorothee Bär gave the laudatory speech for this years Game of the Year award at the close of the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP; German Computer Game Award) and celebrated a successful comeback as the politician responsible for games on the national stage. She even countered a jab at Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, with a charming and witty fake telephone interlude, before proving with a well-judged dose of self-irony that political speeches at the DCP don’t have to be long or boring.