“Swap reading for a haircut!” This was the motto of an unusual campaign organized by the city library and the Björn Wünschirs hairdressing salon from Penzberg on the occasion of the nationwide reading day in the Rathauspassage.
Penzberg - very briefly in the neck?
Or maybe have a pattern shaved in?
Andi didn't know what kind of hairstyle he wanted to have cut at around 2 p.m., shortly after the start of this very special hair-cutting campaign.
The ten-year-old knew exactly what he would read to his hairdresser in return for his free haircut: the young Penzberger had brought "Puzzle Paul - The Disappeared Hamster" by James Preller to the Rathauspassage.
Here mirrors and dressing tables were set up in the new showroom without further ado and the room was transformed into a small hairdressing salon for a period of three hours.
The model is a Munich hairdresser, who received the German reading award for his campaign
Andi emphasized which book he would read aloud.
And no, his mother didn't urge him to participate so that he could practice a little reading on the side.
“I felt like it.
I think that's a funny idea, "Andi assured.
City library employee Sandy Schantz had this funny idea.
She was brought up by the Munich hairdresser Danny Beuerbach, this year's winner of the German reading award of the Reading Foundation.
He also cuts children's hair for free if they read to him in return.
“I thought this idea was so great,” said Schantz.
The nationwide reading day was now the welcome opportunity to try out Beuerbach's concept for yourself.
Nine children and young people registered for three hours in Penzberg
That was obviously well received in Penzberg.
Because as Schantz said, nine children and young people had registered for the three-hour campaign.
“We are fully booked.” The main concern of the city library is always to inspire children and young people to read.
And maybe, she hoped, this unusual and uncomplicated campaign could help a little and awaken the interest in reading in the youngsters.
Andi's mother Sonja Wolf was won over by the action.
"My son felt like doing it without a nudge from me," she emphasized.
And she personally thinks “everything that is new and exciting in Penzberg is a good action”.
Hairdresser Sandy Theiss: "I think the action is simply mega"
Kathrin, who came with her two little daughters, can only confirm that. Because her two girls, aged three and five, were still too young to read aloud themselves, she took up reading and read to her daughter Marie from the book “My Milk Teeth Book”, while hairdresser Sandy Theiss shaped the long brown hair of the five-year-olds gave her little sister a chic braided hairstyle. “I think the campaign is just mega,” said Theiss, because she really enjoys working with children.
A visit to the hairdresser is always a bit difficult for her girls, explained Kathrin.
The little ones would be afraid of strangers and of the fact that they might pull when they cut their hair.
Kathrin was happy to say that reading aloud helps overcoming this fear by distracting.
In any case, little Marie was sitting completely relaxed in the chair that afternoon and had her hair trimmed.
She said she got the book from her mom - just in time, because her first milk teeth had already fallen out.