After the Corona Abitur: Helpers in the test center instead of tent camp

The corona pandemic has messed up the school leaving certificate of high school students in 2020.

Abitur trips were canceled.

And how things would look like with trips abroad or their professional future was suddenly uncertain.

On the other hand, the graduates had completely new experiences.

• The high school graduates from last year were particularly challenged by the corona pandemic.

• After leaving school, Abitur trips and trips abroad were almost always canceled.

  The start of studies and training was in the stars.

• For some of the graduating students, completely new experiences were open to them.

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- "Originally a tent camp was planned from the church," says high school graduate Jannik Winkler.

But sleeping ten in a tent for a week was too risky.

Instead, the 20-year-old from Gröbenzeller was offered a completely new experience.

"I worked as a volunteer Corona test helper." Winkler helped out at the test station at Munich Central Station, in the Hasenheide and at the airport.

Winkler's training as a specialist in event technology then followed as planned in September - in an industry that has been hard hit by the Corona crisis.

Despite the lockdown, there is still enough to do in his training company.

“We work a lot with live broadcast events,” says Jannik Winkler.

In the end, he shouldn't complain anyway: some of his former classmates are on short-time work.

Classes at the vocational school started normally, in face-to-face classes - now, like many other students, the 20-year-old is learning online.

After the Corona Abitur: apprenticeship in a pharmacy

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Although the graduation ceremony only took place in a small group, Hannah Ullmann had dressed up nicely.

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With Hannah Ullmann from Emmeringen, classes at the university were only virtual from the start.

Even the introductory event for her dual study program in health management was digital.

She has "unfortunately not yet" met her fellow students or lecturers in real life.

Instead, however, their colleagues from the pharmacy - their training company - and numerous customers who have bought mouth and nose protection, among other things.

She is still amazed at the large deliveries of masks that arrived at the pharmacy.

“It was all very exciting.” What the 19-year-old student lacks is basketball training at TuS Fürstenfeldbruck.

"We all very much hope that we will be able to train again soon."

After the Corona Abitur: ZDF shoot for the Black Forest thriller - almost isolated from the outside world

Jonas Walcher (19) from Olching is also eager to play handball again soon at HSG Gröbenzell.

After graduating from high school in the summer, the team continued to train hard.

Shortly before the first game, however, the season was canceled.

The high school graduate from Olchinger Gymnasium was excited by another hobby: acting.

Every now and then, the business administration student stands in front of the camera, as was the case last year for the Black Forest crime series on ZDF.

"It was really interesting to make a film during Corona," says Jonas Walcher.

The actors were tested regularly and lived almost isolated in their own world during the shooting.

After the Corona Abitur: Medical studies and internship in the clinic

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Sophia Veneris is now studying medicine at the University of Erlangen.

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Out of home and into a new world in Franconia: This is what Sophia Veneris, high school graduate at St. Ottilien High School, experienced after graduating from school.

The 18-year-old is studying medicine in Erlangen.

Before starting her studies, she had to complete a nursing internship at the Landsberg am Lech Clinic.

There Veneris had no contact with corona patients in the gynecology and obstetrics ward.

Wearing a mask for eight hours, regular disinfection and corona tests were still on the plan.

For the 18-year-old from Walleshausen (Landsberg am Lech district) there is no reason to doubt her career choice.

“I like the course better than expected,” says Veneris.

At the University of Erlangen she was even contacted by the elderly and accepted into the medical faculty.

After the Corona Abitur: Practical classes in training are more intensive

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Marian Conrad has started an apprenticeship as an electronics technician for information and systems technology.

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“Right from the start we got the feeling that everything was going normally,” says Marian Conrad and is “positively surprised”.

After graduating from high school, the 19-year-old Maisacher began training as an electronics technician for information and systems technology.

He can learn the practice-related content more intensively, as things are a little quieter on the construction site.

Because the vocational school in Lauingen (Dillingen district) is currently closed, Conrad is learning the theory online from home.

"Sometimes I'm happy about that, otherwise I would have to take the train to school for two hours."

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