Paula, the story writer: Talented ten-year-olds from Taufkirchen

Created: 06/13/2022, 16:00

By: Alexandra Anderka

Seldom to be found without a book: Paula Mairoth with her teacher Kristina Schuster and two volumes of the Max books by Rosi Hagenreiner.

Paula has already suggested a book title to the author.

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"Great talent": Paula Mairoth (10) wrote her first book in kindergarten.

And she still invents one story after the other.

Taufkirchen

– “Paula writes or has a book in front of her nose.” This is how Sabine Hollerith characterizes her ten-year-old daughter, who attends the Taufkirchen elementary school.

There her teacher Kristina Schuster became aware of the young writing talent.

"I've been a teacher since 2006, but I've never encountered such great talent before," says the teacher.

In order not to discourage her classmates when they hear a story by Paula, she revealed to her fourth graders that at the age of ten she was not able to formulate stories as imaginative as Paula Mairoth.

The student has already written countless stories, many of which she started and didn't finish because she suddenly realized: "Something doesn't fit." That's what happened to her, the big Harry Potter fan, when she wrote a book about it wondered what would have happened if Harry Potter had stayed at Hogwarts Magic School.

"I was already on page 52 and then it suddenly occurred to me that Dumbledore was already dead, and then I had to stop." To understand: The headmaster Dumbledore was followed by the evil Snape, who would have handed Harry Potter over to his archenemy Voldemort .

Paula is consistent, she knows exactly what she wants.

That's why she doesn't agree with some of her teacher's corrections.

"I can't write it the way Mrs. Schuster wants, I didn't mean it that way," she then explains to her mother at home.

When it comes to some improvements that affect the content, the class teacher lets you talk to them, but not when it comes to stylistic corrections, explains Schuster with a smile.

Paula was born with the writing and reading gene.

The grandfather is a book fan, and her mother also wrote stories as a child that nobody was allowed to read, remembers the 38-year-old sociologist, who has two sons (6 and 8).

Paula also wants to keep her stories to herself, but cannot explain exactly why.

When asked about her favorite books or authors, the elementary school student explains: "I read everything I get and then decide for myself what is good and what isn't." together witch,” she describes.

With this magic, bright stars then show lost children the way, or sleeping boys are visited by cats at night who knock on the window, because Paula has a blooming imagination.

Behind the parents' house there is an imp gate to the forest.

When Paula slips through there, pictures and fairy tales arise in her head, which then just bubble out of her, says her mother.

Paula wrote her first book in kindergarten. It contains three pages that say: Where's the magnifying glass?

There's the magnifying glass.

Hooray, the magnifying glass is back!

At the age of five, she taught herself to read and write.

"When Dad noticed that I really wanted it, he drew the alphabet on me." A little later she was sitting in the reading corner of the kindergarten reading books to her friends.

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Once there was an author reading with Rosi Hagenreiner at school.

At that time, the writer read from her third Max book, which, however, did not yet have a title.

Paula couldn't get that out of her head, so she thought about it and wrote her suggestion to the author: "Max, that can't be true." She was so enthusiastic that she suggested the title to the publisher.

However, he found him to be “too Bavarian”.

Paula doesn't know yet whether she would like to be a writer.

Now she's going to high school with her friend Charlotte. "Charlotte illustrated my story about a planet - according to my ideas," she says.