Cardboard theater at its finest: Gautingen students awarded for short film

Created: 04/06/2022, 07:00

Cheering over the award: The children of the Gautingen School of Fantasy with their project managers Rosemarie Zacher (left), Sanne Kneisel (2nd from right) and Sibylle Sommer (right).

Caroline Stengl (2nd from left) from VR Bank awarded them a prize in the "Jugend creativ" drawing competition.

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The Gauting school of fantasy has reached the state round in a creative competition of VR Bank - thanks to a short film with beautiful and weird characters.

Gauting - "What is beautiful?" was the big prize question in the international painting competition "Jugend creativ" of the VR Bank Starnberg-Herrsching-Landsberg.

The Gautinger School of Fantasy gave the best answer, i.e. those elementary school students who take part in the creative afternoon activities.

The bank gave them a prize of 250 euros for their short film "schöööön!".

It not only shows so-called snap-jaw figures, but also imaginatively created stick puppets such as the "Hello Kitty" cat, which moves across the small theater stage.

"We found this year's theme wonderful!" enthused Rosemarie Zacher, Head of the Fantasy School, at the award ceremony.

Caroline Stengl from the marketing department of VR Bank came to Gauting to honor students and the project managers Rosemarie Zacher, Sibylle Sommer and Sanne Kneisel.

Thus, the school of fantasy rises to the next round at state level.

Before the shooting, the group first philosophized, Zacher said about the joint project: In chair-group discussions, the leaders first found out what the 30 children involved find beautiful and horrible at the same time - long fingernails, gloomy, gray pictures, spiders, unicorns.

"Everyone then went to great lengths to bring characters to life who can explain beauty on stage," says Zacher.

Striking: The smaller preschool children and first-graders were not interested in "external beauty," reported Zacher.

"I think penguins are great animals," said Miguel (8).

That's why he created two penguin figures in tails with Konstantin.

The two animals shared a joke: "What's the difference between a penguin and a pianist?

The grand piano: Because the pianist only has one of these, but the penguin has two, Miguel explains the background to his funny scene.

And Julius loves turtles: that's why he made one out of cardboard.

But also the detective Bello, who prefers to solve cases, the horse with the purple mane, a centaur,

The film is available on the competition website www.jugendcreativ-video.de/author/sdf-gauting/.

The little artists still need audience votes in the state round.

Then it is even possible to take part in the federal decision.

Christine Cless-Wesle