Hans Beck Hans Beck Hans Beck (6 May 1929, Greiz – 30 January 2009, Markdorf) was the German inventor of Playmobil toys. He is thus often called "The Father of Playmobil". Born in Greiz, Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf. He trained as a cabinet maker and made small toy vehicles and figures for his younger siblings. He presented his model airplanes to Horst Brandstätter, owner of local toy company Geobra Brandstätter, who took him on, and asked him to develop toy figures for children. As a hobby Beck built ultra-lightweight model aircraft for flying indoors. He competed in
Nils Bech Nils Bech Nils Bech (born April 8, 1981, in Hønefoss) is a Norwegian singer, signed to James Murphy's DFA Records. Bech got famous for performing a classic Christmas anthem O Holy Night for the Norwegian TV series Skam. His version of O Holy Night got more than 1 million of streams on Spotify on the day it was published placing him in the top of the global charts. Bech was raised in a small Norwegian village outside Oslo and began performing in a very young age when he was singing at the Salvation Army for his grandmother and her friends.