A three-inch plastic figure has become the fastest-selling toy ever produced by Playmobil – and the company has produced a lot. “An initial run of 34,000 mini Luthers, complete with oversized quill and German-language Bible, sold out in three days,” The Times reported last week. “This is just a taste of the Luther fever that has overtaken Germany this summer.”They’re apparently growing feverish in an admirably organised way, two years before the big event. “The toy, commissioned jointly by the Lutheran Church and two tourist boards, is part of preparations for ‘Luther 2017’,” Mark Greaves explained to Times readers, “when Germany will mark 500 years since the reformer wrote his 95 Theses that questioned the practices of the
27 August 2015, The Tablet
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