Dörte Sambraus Prize 2020 goes to Michael Horn and Manfred Müller

The Dörte Sambraus Prize 2020 was awarded with a delay.

It goes to two craft businesses with a special relationship to the Inselhaus.

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- Michael Horn, owner of the joinery of the same name in Pullach, and Manfred Müller, owner of a privacy and sun protection company in Königsdorf, had to wait a long time for this handover.

The two had already been selected as winners of the Dörte Sambraus Prize of the Alexander Brochier Foundation last year, but the award had to be canceled due to the pandemic.

"Now we are making up for that on a smaller scale," said the managing director of Inselhaus Kinder- und Jugendhilfe (IKJH), Angelika Schmidbauer, welcoming almost a dozen guests. "The occasion is no less worthy - we want to thank people who have shown a special commitment to our young people."

For the first time since the first award winner in 1996, there were two honored. “Both are craft businesses that are connected to us in the same way,” said Catherine Kemeny, daughter of Dörte Sambraus and partner of the IKJH. Contact with Michael Horn was established through an employee who visited him privately. “She was accompanied by a young person - our Andi Becker.” In 2014, the young man completed a ten-week internship with the master carpenter and “actually didn't want to leave,” says Horn. The result: Becker began training as a woodworker with him in 2015 and still works today as a journeyman in the carpentry shop.

Manfred Müller, who could not come to the award ceremony, made an extra training certificate in order to be able to take on apprentices.

In 2009, also after an internship, a young woman applied for an apprenticeship as a roller shutter and sun protection mechatronics technician - Jenny Spohr, who now accepted the award on behalf of her former teacher.

After passing the exam, it also stayed in the company for a long time.

“A total of ten years,” calculated Kemeny.

Also read: A portrait of the 2019 award winner

Award winner Müller emphasized in preliminary discussions that school grades are not absolutely important to him. "Skill, teamwork, motivation and flexibility count much more," summarized the shareholder. Conversely, as a teacher, he shows understanding. "The young people come from school, have little life experience and are then thrown into a completely different world." Both award winners are recognized by the fact that as a trainer you have to show tolerance for mistakes. And, according to Kemeny: "Instead of pointing out errors, we are consequently working on how to generally keep the error rate low - and that is a lot more difficult."

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