There are many ways on the Internet for young and old to pass the (corona) time. More and more offers are also coming from the district - a few creative examples.
District - The children have not been to school, crèche or kindergarten for a month. While the first three weeks were reserved for lessons at home, we are now in the middle of the Easter vacation. You can't go away, and not everyone has a balcony or garden. There are many ways on the Internet for young and old to pass the time. More and more offers are also coming from the district - a few creative examples.
"Paleo video series" from the Urzeitmuseum
The Urzeitmuseum in Taufkirchen has started a “paleo video series” to bring the viewers “the prehistory back home”, as museum director Peter Kapustin explains in the first video. He takes the users to Bavaria 15 million years ago, explains the change of teeth at the mammoths or how difficult the greatest giants of prehistoric times could be.
The videos were created spontaneously, Kapustin says when asked: "We shot the first one in one evening, the evening before the exit restrictions, because at first we didn't know if we were allowed to do that at all." Florian Stehbeck, chairman of the Friends of the Urzeitmuseum Taufkirchen, filmed.
"There were no rehearsals, we just wrote a short director's book on the individual topics and then we started," reports Kapustin. He wanted to give viewers an impression of what the museum looks like - especially for those who have never been there. The videos, it is hoped, will arouse people's curiosity to visit the museum when it is possible again.
Because, Kapustin makes no secret of it: the closure "is an absolute catastrophe for us economically". The costs for the staff, but also for construction work continue, but as a non-profit organization you are not covered by a rescue package.
Corona brakes "bombastic run" in the prehistoric museum
“Before the closure, we had a bombastic run with 1,500 to 2,000 visitors a month. It would have been an amazing record year, ”said Kapustin. Even if he had full understanding of the measures, the closure was still bitter. He had expected around 1,500 visitors in the Easter holidays alone, and there were also a good ten school classes that would have come before the holidays. "We depend on the drip of the entrance fees, and if they don't flow, big investments will make it difficult," explains Kapustin.
But sticking his head in the sand is out of the question for him. "We are continuing to work on our new outdoor facilities, which should be ready by Pentecost," says the museum director and promises: "It will be very cool what we have created there" - a circular route on 1,500 square meters, designed and planted the area in between, in between the exhibits. "Until we can open again, the work will continue in the background and we hope that people will long for something like this again after this crisis." Until then, there will be more videos to follow - to make you want to experience the primeval world in Taufkirchen.
Kindergartens in the district: Internet communication
There is also no standstill in most of the district's kindergartens - for example in the five institutions of the Catholic daycare network in Erding. "We use the special circumstances effectively to prepare our facilities for reopening," reports administrative manager Sabine Materna.
And so that the little ones do not get bored at home, the staff of the St. Franziskus kindergarten, for example, is in active contact with the parents. “We give you craft suggestions, finger games, magic tricks and more,” says head Ingeborg Eckart. Short videos are also created that can be seen on YouTube.
The St. Vinzenz kindergarten sends worksheets to the preschool children to help them prepare for the start of school. "We also have handicraft offers with instructions for parents who are interested and who inquire with us," says head Therese Meyer. And in the St. Johannes Kindergarten you can get in touch with the children by video, reports head Sabine Kapfer. "We have many good wishes from the families, pictures of children and so on, which we would like to present in a small exhibition in the foyer."
"Challenges often show us new ways to go"
With handicrafts, baking recipes, finger games and songs you want to pass the time in the Catholic kindergarten St. Korbinian in Forstern. “On the last day of kindergarten before closing, we had to let the children go for a long time. That was incomprehensible to her, ”says director Rosina Winkler. "We quickly realized that we miss the children." And they, in turn, would suffer from the fact that they were missing the usual way to kindergarten.
So they started to put greetings and handicraft suggestions on the homepage, supervised by deputy director Christa Grünewald. Facebook was added later. “If someone had told me two months ago that I was contacting our children on Facebook, I would never have believed it. But challenges often show us new ways to go, ”says Winkler, and hopes to make suggestions such as Easter chicks from toilet paper rolls or paint tulips with the help of forks to make the time more bearable for the children.
By the way, the finished works of art can be admired on Facebook, an entire gallery can already be seen. "We are pleased that this is well received," says Winkler and reveals: Despite Facebook and Internet presence, there was a card from the Easter bunny for every child this year - traditionally by post.
Virtual tours of the city tower and through Erding
Doris Bauer continues to lead people to the city tower and through Erding - virtually. Your “Gschichtn vo da Türmerin z'Arding” on the Erding Tower Tours Facebook page has been well received. Bauer shot the films with a smartphone and selfie stick. “I had planned videos like this for my ten-year-old as a tour guide in 2018, but I didn't have the time. Now I have the time and just tried it out, ”says Bauer, who works full-time at the Museum Erding. "I also thought that you only read Corona, there is no culture, no sport - a little variety would be nice."
The first videos were recorded without a cut. The tower tour can be seen in three parts, already professionally with inscriptions and photos. Bauer reveals all sorts of exciting things about the city tower - but of course not everything. "The videos should make you want more, should be an appetizer for the time when we can take tours again," says Bauer, who has planned even more videos, at least during the Corona period, "and certainly afterwards ". She has enough ideas.
And there will be a very special city tour on Saturday, April 18, on the 75th anniversary of the 1945 Allied bombing of Erding. The Erdinger historian Giulio Salvati will offer a digital tour in cooperation with the Museum Erding. From 3.10 p.m. a live stream on Facebook (Erding Tower Tours) will start at the time of the bombing, during which Salvati and Bauer will present research results.
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