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					I was offered my first play doll in 1952. It was a   Schildkröt celluloid doll with moulded hair and painted   eyes.   As a mother I admired most the Sasha Morgenthaler   dolls for their clearness of design and convincing   functionality as a good play doll.   Before designing collectible dolls, I was fascinated by   thread puppets and theatre performances with puppets.   I was a member of the puppet theatre "Kleines Spiel" in   Munich for years.During this time I made many puppets   also for sale in wood composition or resin.When I saw   the dolls of the swiss artist Elfriede Schwarzenbach,I cut   the threads of my puppets and made dolls for children   and collectors.   In 1979 I met by chance Hanne Adler- Kruse, the   daughter and successor of the famous doll designer    Käthe Kruse. We became friends and some years later   I designed two dolls for the Käthe Kruse company.   At the same time in Munich I met Elisabeth Pongratz,   a talented doll artist. We shared our experiences in doll   making for many years and held a doll shop together.