Overview
- The Oetinger Verlag exhibition opens to the public from Sunday and offers a roughly 600 square meter, interactive play space built around the Olchis characters.
- Visitors explore about a dozen stations that invite touching, teamwork and physical play, including an Olchi cave, smell and sound installations, and games like redirecting a mud flow.
- A signature 360-degree “dragon ride” uses projection to simulate flying into space and ends with a large slide into a staged mud bath.
- Creator Erhard Dietl worked closely with the publisher on most designs to keep the attraction faithful to the long-running 1990 Olchis books that underpin the project.
- The show sits opposite the Thalia-Theater at S-Bahn Ottensen, charges regular entrance fees reported by local press, and follows a broader trend of turning children's literary franchises into experiential family destinations.