Bavaria's Minister of Education in the best fairy tale manner
Created: 04/28/2022, 11:17 am
By: Kathrin Böhmer
Minister, I know: Michael Piazolo (l.) asked the Puchheim elementary school students, some of whom had dressed in traditional costume, many questions.
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There was tension in the air like a good crime novel.
Around 30 elementary school students had made themselves comfortable on the chairs in the Bräunling bookshop and stretched their heads towards the front door.
Puchheim – "Do you think he has bodyguards with him?" one heard.
The fourth graders had learned in class in advance what a minister is.
And someone important like that can't just walk in the door, they must have thought.
he can.
Minister of Education Michael Piazolo appeared without an entourage, smiling relaxed.
"Something like this is one of my favorite dates," he revealed to the daily newspaper.
The politician (free voters), who completed his legal clerkship at the District Court of Fürstenfeldbruck decades ago, had a nice task that day.
He read to the children from the book that was specially written for World Book Day: "Iva, Samo and the Secret Witch Lake".
World Book Day
The UNESCO World Book Day was actually on April 23rd.
Schools, publishers and bookstores organize various campaigns around this date.
This is how bookseller Nicola Bräunling was able for the first time to welcome a minister as a reader in her Puchheim store, which was voted the best bookstore in Bavaria.
"Promoting reading and conveying the fun of books are very important to us and it's nice that we're receiving prominent support from Mr. Piazolo's visit," explains Bräunling.
Her store was one of two in Bavaria chosen for the event.
Three children were allowed to come from the fourth grades of the three elementary schools.
"We drew lots," says Ruth Frank-Amberger, head of the school at Gerner Platz.
"Your" protégés all appeared in traditional costume, with pigtails and some even masks in matching colors.
"It goes without saying that on such a special occasion." The children were very excited, as confirmed by their colleagues Stephanie Bierl (South) and Christiane Smolinsky (Laurenzer elementary school).
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But then there was no sign of fear of contact.
Piazolo did not give a frontal lecture, but read aloud in the best fairy tale manner and asked his young listeners spontaneous questions from time to time.
"I just wanted to know something about the children," he told the Tagblatt after the event.
And so he found out that Harry Potter is still very popular, that many children read in the evening before going to sleep or even at night, and that one or the other can imagine writing their own book.
Small dig
In this context, Piazolo then allowed himself the only political dig: you can have many ideas, including in politics, but they cannot always be implemented.
"And you have to be careful not to announce anything and not keep it afterwards," he joked towards Puchheim's mayor Norbert Seidl, who had also come.
And immediately added: "Of course we two don't do that."
In the end the kids liked it.
They were all given a copy of the book, as were the others who were not allowed to be there.
Around a million world diaries are sold altogether, reported Klaus Beckschulte, managing director of the regional association of the German book trade association.
That only works with the financial support from the author to the printer, and last but not least the bookstores, who bear the transport costs.
"If you stacked all the books on top of each other, it would be a tower taller than the highest mountain in the world," he said.
In other words: Mount Everest at 8,848 meters.
KATHRIN BOEHMER
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