Spirit of Play - Around the toy industry

The idea of the escape room also works as a board game. Game-inventing couple Inka and Markus Brand provide the proof with their "EXIT – The Game" range from publisher KOSMOS.

Contemporary witness Erika Neumann reports on how the GDR transited from a planned economy to a capitalist economy in toy production.

Bernd Sauer, author of the book GDR toy industry, Spielzeugland DDR, talks about his experiences of the toy industry in East Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

More "diversity in the nursery" is the goal of the founders of Tebalou. For this reason, they founded their online shop in 2018 to offer toys for ALL children.

The Nuremberg Toy Museum is being completely refurbished. Beside the structural measures, the museum team led by Dr Karin Falkenberg is also reinventing the museum.

In this interview, Horst Neidhard tells us about the industry’s changing image, consequences of the coronavirus, and Model Railway Day in Germany.