Person Timo Schöber

Timo Schöber wurde 1983 in Flensburg geboren. Der ehemalige E-Sportler ist Bestsellerautor und ist unter anderem Leiter der Denkfabrik Esportionary und Dozent an zwei Hochschulen.

Timo Schöber ist Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher, Autor, Berater und außerdem mit viel Freude und Leidenschaft im Personalwesen tätig.

Timo Schöber (*1983) ist ehemaliger eSportler in den Genres der Echtzeitstrategiespiele und der Massively Mulplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG). Mit dem Buch BildschirmAthleten veröffentlichte er im Jahr das erste umfassende Sachbuch zum Thema eSports. Darüber hinaus ist er für unterschiedliche Organisaonen beratend täg, darunter der deutsche Topclan PENTA und der TSV München. Er ist Mitglied des eSports Nord e.V. und für die Pressearbeit des Berliner Instuts für Ludologie zuständig. Gemeinsam mit Andreas Schaetzke ist er Gründer der analogen eSports-Enzyklopädie Esportpedia.

Dr. Timo Schöber wurde 1983 in Flensburg geboren. Als studierter Personalmanager und promovierter Volkswirt liegt sein beruflicher Schwerpunkt im Bereich Human Resources. Seine große Leidenschaft aber ist der E-Sport. Hier war er als Spieler im Genre der Echtzeitstrategiespiele erfolgreich. Er hat über dreißig Bücher zu unterschiedlichen Themen veröffentlicht, unter anderem beim Meyer & Meyer Verlag und dem Heel Verlag.

Dr. Timo Schöber holds a degree in business administration (FH) with a focus on human resources and health management. He has been working in HR since 2011 and was employed at Krones AG and mienjung GmbH, among others, at times as Head of HR. He is currently Head of HR Projects and Innovations at Stadtwerke Flensburg GmbH. He is also co-founder of the start-up lvlup!HR, which won an award at the Schleswig-Holstein Ideas Competition. Timo Schöber has been active in e-sports since 1998, including as a former player. He has published several books on e-sports, for example with Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Flying Kiwi Media and Heel Verlag. In 2018, he published Bildschirm-Athleten, the first comprehensive book on e-sports in German, which has been widely cited as a standard work on e-sports. In September 2022, he received his doctorate from the European University Viadrina with the grade summa cum laude. He has been a lecturer at Viadrina, HdM Stuttgart, SRH Berlin and FH Westküste. He heads the e-sports, gameful design and HR departments at the Berlin Institute for Ludology as well as the think tank Esportionary. He has written textbooks for the Euro-FH European Distance Learning University Hamburg and the IU International University of Applied Sciences. He has written an expert report on e-sports for the German Society for International Cooperation.

About Dr. Timo Schöber: Self-employed with schoeber.net. Here, among other things, consultant, ghostwriter, reviewer and mentor for various projects, organizations and individuals. In addition, author of several dozen books. Overall, this is his main activity. HR expert and know-how carrier with a special focus on controlling, talent management, employer branding, HR marketing, gamification and projects. Experience as HR manager at different companies and projects. Active as employee and manager in HR since 2009. His HR work has won multiple awards, including prizes at the HR Energy Award, the Ideenwettbewerb Schleswig-Holstein and the Überflieger-Wettbewerb. Founder and co-founder of various projects, especially in the areas of HR, E-Sports, gamification and writing. In this role, experience as head of different areas at the organizations lvlup!HR, Esportionary, Esportpedia, eSports Nord, aimTalk and mienjung, among others. Researching in the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic theory, E-Sports, HR and gaming, among as head of the three areas E-Sports, gameful design and HR at the Berlin Institute for Ludology. In addition, experience as lecturer, postdoc and/or author at the universities Viadrina, HdM Stuttgart, FH Westküste, SRH Berlin, IU, DHSH and Euro-FH.