diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/content-choice-creator/content-choice-creator.component.html b/src/app/components/creator/content-choice-creator/content-choice-creator.component.html
index e78321c4fdc54551de2d0eb7ac7dab54ea62f9c2..65f591bdd68adefbfa578b4a41b8e5ebc9df8771 100644
--- a/src/app/components/creator/content-choice-creator/content-choice-creator.component.html
+++ b/src/app/components/creator/content-choice-creator/content-choice-creator.component.html
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 <form (ngSubmit)="submitContent()" fxLayout="column" fxLayoutGap="20px">
-  <markdown [data]="content.body"></markdown>
   <mat-divider></mat-divider>
 
   <mat-radio-group [(ngModel)]="singleChoice" [ngModelOptions]="{standalone: true}" fxLayout="row" fxLayoutAlign="center" fxLayoutGap="20px">
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.html b/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.html
index c4e7185fb21d293608a5dcb0a20674f0c72d8a1a..c09a49856856980c2d252b2be23fe129858f0113 100644
--- a/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.html
+++ b/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<div fxLayout="column" fxLayoutAlign="start" fxLayoutGap="20px" fxFill>
+<div fxLayout="column" fxLayoutAlign="start" fxLayoutGap="5%" fxFill>
   <div fxLayout="row" fxLayoutAlign="center">
     <mat-tab-group>
       <mat-tab label="Single / Multiple Choice">
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.scss b/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.scss
index ea9c3d93f767262d835e953d031a031e64ad6f42..c40d37584524f6f914cd0e3e7e4b6265f8943abb 100644
--- a/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.scss
+++ b/src/app/components/creator/content-create-page/content-create-page.component.scss
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ mat-tab-group {
 }
 
 .tab-container {
-  padding: 20px;
+  padding: 5px;
 }
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/content-creator/content-creator.component.html b/src/app/components/creator/content-creator/content-creator.component.html
index 4f51d904f761cfe0d47418ee4c689fec74c6379e..407b840e6c9cf2cf3acbf0c07b2795914fa95fbd 100644
--- a/src/app/components/creator/content-creator/content-creator.component.html
+++ b/src/app/components/creator/content-creator/content-creator.component.html
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@
   <input matInput #subject [(ngModel)]="content.subject" placeholder="{{'content.subject' | translate}}" name="subject"
   maxlength="20">
 </mat-form-field>
-<app-markdown-toolbar textareaId="content-text-body"></app-markdown-toolbar>
 <mat-form-field class="input-block">
     <textarea matInput #body [(ngModel)]="content.body" placeholder="{{'content.body' | translate}}" name="body"
               matTextareaAutosize matAutosizeMinRows="3" matAutosizeMaxRows="8" maxlength="100"></textarea>
 </mat-form-field>
-<markdown [data]="content.body"></markdown>
 <mat-form-field>
   <input matInput #group [formControl]="myControl" [matAutocomplete]="auto"
          placeholder="{{'content.collection' | translate}}" [(ngModel)]="lastCollection" />
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/creator.module.ts b/src/app/components/creator/creator.module.ts
index 58a6112858dfe2c18a34e20bd85c09e1232e7904..dafab2dc5774102d634182533f6dd58b3d629796 100644
--- a/src/app/components/creator/creator.module.ts
+++ b/src/app/components/creator/creator.module.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import { ContentLikertCreatorComponent } from './content-likert-creator/content-
 import { ContentTextCreatorComponent } from './content-text-creator/content-text-creator.component';
 import { ContentYesNoCreatorComponent } from './content-yes-no-creator/content-yes-no-creator.component';
 import { HomeCreatorPageComponent } from './home-creator-page/home-creator-page.component';
-import { MarkdownToolbarComponent } from './markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component';
 import { RoomCreatorPageComponent } from './room-creator-page/room-creator-page.component';
 import { EssentialsModule } from '../essentials/essentials.module';
 import { RoomCreateComponent } from './_dialogs/room-create/room-create.component';
@@ -45,7 +44,6 @@ import { ContentEditComponent } from './_dialogs/content-edit/content-edit.compo
     ContentTextCreatorComponent,
     ContentYesNoCreatorComponent,
     HomeCreatorPageComponent,
-    MarkdownToolbarComponent,
     RoomCreatorPageComponent,
     RoomCreateComponent,
     RoomDeleteComponent,
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.html b/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 4877ff50c41f25fba96a51747d68a38627513dd2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<div class="markdown-toolbar">
-  <button mat-icon-button *ngFor="let button of buttons" (click)="onClick($event, button);"
-          matTooltip="{{button.label}}">
-    <mat-icon attr.aria-label="{{button.label}}">{{button.icon}}</mat-icon>
-  </button>
-</div>
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.scss b/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.spec.ts b/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 34d8a38f8d2c5a2bc87de211188773c2a1aed3af..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-import { async, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
-
-import { MarkdownToolbarComponent } from './markdown-toolbar.component';
-
-describe('MarkdownToolbarComponent', () => {
-  let component: MarkdownToolbarComponent;
-  let fixture: ComponentFixture<MarkdownToolbarComponent>;
-
-  beforeEach(async(() => {
-    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
-      declarations: [ MarkdownToolbarComponent ]
-    })
-    .compileComponents();
-  }));
-
-  beforeEach(() => {
-    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(MarkdownToolbarComponent);
-    component = fixture.componentInstance;
-    fixture.detectChanges();
-  });
-
-  it('should create', () => {
-    expect(component).toBeTruthy();
-  });
-});
diff --git a/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.ts b/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index f82958fa55be9865287ddcb27edcec09f12783a0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/app/components/creator/markdown-toolbar/markdown-toolbar.component.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,178 +0,0 @@
-import { Component, Input } from '@angular/core';
-import { MatDialog } from '@angular/material';
-import { Data, GenericDataDialogComponent } from '../../shared/_dialogs/generic-data-dialog/generic-data-dialog.component';
-
-@Component({
-  selector: 'app-markdown-toolbar',
-  templateUrl: './markdown-toolbar.component.html',
-  styleUrls: ['./markdown-toolbar.component.scss']
-})
-/**
- * Component offering markdown action buttons for a textarea.
- * Associated via input attribute containing the textarea's HTML id.
- */
-export class MarkdownToolbarComponent {
-  /**
-   * HTML id associated to the marked up textarea
-   */
-  @Input() textareaId: string;
-  /**
-   * Associated textarea
-   */
-  textarea: HTMLTextAreaElement;
-
-  /**
-   * Button configuration array used for template generation. See {@link Button} for further information.
-   * @type {Button[]}
-   */
-  buttons: Button[] = [
-    new Button('bold', 'Bold', 'format_bold', '**{{TEXT}}**'),
-    new Button('italic', 'Italic', 'format_italic', '*{{TEXT}}*'),
-    new Button('title', 'Title', 'title', '## {{TEXT}}'),
-    new Button('link', 'Link', 'insert_link', '[{{TEXT}}]({{URL}})'),
-    new Button('ul', 'Unordered list', 'format_list_bulleted', '* {{TEXT}}'),
-    new Button('ol', 'Ordered list', 'format_list_numbered', '1. {{TEXT}}'),
-    new Button('code', 'Code', 'code', '`{{TEXT}}`'),
-    new Button('quote', 'Quote', 'format_quote', '> {{TEXT}}'),
-    new Button('image', 'Image', 'insert_photo', '![{{TEXT}}]({{URL}})'),
-  ];
-
-  constructor(public dialog: MatDialog) { }
-
-  /**
-   * Gets called in template, run action when a button gets pressed
-   * @param $event
-   * @param button
-   */
-  onClick($event, button) {
-    // Get the associated textarea element. See function documentation for further information
-    this.updateTextarea();
-
-    // Prevent all default actions (form submission, ..)
-    $event.preventDefault();
-    if (!this.textarea) {
-      // Cancel the action click in case there is no associated textarea
-      console.log(`MarkdownToolbar: textarea with id '${this.textareaId}' not found.`);
-      return;
-    }
-
-    // Init formatted string with button's format string, placeholders will be replaced later on
-    let formattedString = button.format;
-    // Get offset for cursor position (set the cursor to the beginning of the surrounded text)
-    const cursorPosition = formattedString.indexOf('{{TEXT}}');
-
-    // Handle different buttons here
-    switch (button.id) {
-      case 'link':
-      case 'image':
-        // Open a configuration dialog
-        const dialogRef = this.dialog.open(GenericDataDialogComponent, {
-          data: [
-            new Data('TEXT', 'Text', this.getSelectedText()),
-            new Data('URL', 'URL')
-          ]
-        });
-        // Wait for dialog to get closed..
-        dialogRef.afterClosed().subscribe(result => {
-          // Cancel if there is no data (dialog got closed without submitting)
-          if (result === undefined) {
-            return;
-          }
-          // Loop data entries..
-          result.forEach(data => {
-            // Replace placeholder with data provided by the user
-            formattedString = formattedString.replace(`{{${data.id}}}`, data.value);
-          });
-          // Insert the formatted string and update the cursor position
-          this.insertTextAtSelection(formattedString, cursorPosition);
-        });
-        break;
-      default:
-        // Replace text placeholder with the selected text (keep surrounding tags empty if there was no selection)
-        formattedString = formattedString.replace('{{TEXT}}', this.getSelectedText());
-        // Insert the text associated to the button and update the cursor position
-        this.insertTextAtSelection(formattedString, cursorPosition);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Get the selected text of the textarea
-   * @returns {string}
-   */
-  private getSelectedText() {
-    return this.textarea.value.slice(this.textarea.selectionStart, this.textarea.selectionEnd);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Insert the passed string at the cursor position (replaces selected text if there is any) and update the cursor's position to start
-   * of the inserted text respecting the passed selection offset
-   * @param {string} formattedString
-   * @param {number} selectionOffset
-   */
-  private insertTextAtSelection(text: string, selectionOffset: number) {
-    // Get the textarea's text selection positions (no selection when selectionStart == selectionEnd)
-    const selectionStart = this.textarea.selectionStart;
-    const selectionEnd = this.textarea.selectionEnd;
-    // Get textarea's value
-    const value = this.textarea.value;
-
-    // Insert the action's text at the cursor's position
-    this.textarea.value = [value.slice(0, selectionStart), text, value.slice(selectionEnd)].join('');
-    // Focus the textarea
-    this.textarea.focus();
-    // Calculate the new cursor position (based on the action's text length and the previous cursor position)
-    const cursorPosition = selectionStart + selectionOffset;
-    // Set the cursor to the calculated position
-    this.textarea.setSelectionRange(cursorPosition, cursorPosition);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Get the textarea by its id in case it isn't already initialized.
-   * The angular material tab element uses portal hosts to keep the DOM free of inactive tabs which makes it impossible to retrieve the
-   * element once in the `AfterViewInit`. As this component gets used in the tab element we retrieve the textarea on button clicks as this
-   * makes sure the associated area is in the DOM too.
-   * See https://github.com/angular/material2/issues/731 for reference.
-   */
-  private updateTextarea() {
-    if (!this.textarea) {
-      this.textarea = document.getElementById(this.textareaId) as HTMLTextAreaElement;
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Data class for markdown toolbar action buttons
- */
-class Button {
-  /**
-   * Id used to identify the action for special behaviour
-   */
-  id: string;
-  /**
-   * Label shown to the user
-   */
-  label: string;
-  /**
-   * Icon key (material icon font) shown to the user
-   */
-  icon: string;
-  /**
-   * Format string
-   */
-  format: string;
-
-  /**
-   * Constructor for creating an instance of {@link Button}
-   *
-   * @param {string} id
-   * @param {string} label
-   * @param {string} icon
-   * @param {string} format
-   */
-  constructor(id: string, label: string, icon: string, format: string) {
-    this.id = id;
-    this.label = label;
-    this.icon = icon;
-    this.format = format;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/app/components/essentials/essentials.module.ts b/src/app/components/essentials/essentials.module.ts
index e02a0733dbfea7da68502a38a8997829edb8fa0c..58e4e28f3780cbaa9976106aa0e017a59ca6cf24 100644
--- a/src/app/components/essentials/essentials.module.ts
+++ b/src/app/components/essentials/essentials.module.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
 import { FlexLayoutModule } from '@angular/flex-layout';
 import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
 import { HttpClient, HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';
-import { MarkdownModule } from 'ngx-markdown';
 import {
   MatAutocompleteModule,
   MatBadgeModule,
@@ -86,7 +85,6 @@ import { TranslateHttpLoader } from '@ngx-translate/http-loader';
     FlexLayoutModule,
     FormsModule,
     HttpClientModule,
-    MarkdownModule,
     ReactiveFormsModule
   ],
   declarations: []
diff --git a/src/app/components/participant/content-text-participant/content-text-participant.component.html b/src/app/components/participant/content-text-participant/content-text-participant.component.html
index 6818fc065bb92bbe1118abb8d743f7755aed6923..33f79b4cd3df91813ee2dac0b5b3f3b1290d8930 100644
--- a/src/app/components/participant/content-text-participant/content-text-participant.component.html
+++ b/src/app/components/participant/content-text-participant/content-text-participant.component.html
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <form (ngSubmit)="submitAnswer()">
   <h1 class="mat-headline">{{ content.subject }}</h1>
-  <markdown [data]="content.body"></markdown>
   <mat-divider></mat-divider>
   <mat-form-field class="input-block">
     <textarea matInput [(ngModel)]="textAnswer" name="answer" #answer placeholder="{{ 'answer.your-answer' | translate }}"></textarea>