“A shameless attempt’: Christian Gerhaher on Bavaria’s primary school reform. “Creative subjects like music actually need to be strengthened,” says Munich baritone Christian Ger Haher.

Education Minister Anna Stolz emphasizes that it is “simply wrong” that music, art and works are combined in one common subject at primary schools. ‘I fear that the Free State is increasingly failing to fulfill its responsibility for the cultural mandate, which is prominently featured in the constitution,’ he says.