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The best readers from the schools in the district (from left): Jakob Simon Cordes, winner Julia Dürr, Jasmina Speer, Charlotte Waltl, Florian Dorn, Carl Franke, Maya Annabel Simm and Simon Gerke.
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In the regional decision of the reading competition, sixth graders faced a jury in the Starnberg city library.
A Starnberg high school student won.
Starnberg
– The excitement was almost palpable in the Starnberg city library: the best ten young readers in the district competed against each other in the 65th reading competition.
At this regional competition, around 40 listeners listened to the bookworms who came from ten different schools in the district.
The Starnberg high school has been organizing the regional competition in the district town for decades under the leadership of German teacher Thomas Maier-Bandomer.
Around 6,900 students nationwide take part in the regional decisions made by cities and districts - they previously came out on top among 600,000 participants.
Children from the district took part from the Starnberg, Gilching, Gauting and Kempfenhausen high schools as well as the Munich International School, as well as from the Gilching, Tutzing and Herrsching middle schools and the Herrsching secondary school.
Julia Dürr from Starnberg High School defended the title for her school – Andreas Mörtl had won it the previous year.
Dürr thus qualified for the next stage: the district competition.
After the state level, the 16 state winners reach the federal final in Berlin.
Self-selected text and specifications - “The Red Zora”
In the first round, the sixth graders had to read an excerpt from a book they had chosen.
Julia Dürr chose “Sophie on the Roofs” by Katherine Rundell.
In the next round, the reading-loving children were presented with the text excerpt from “The Red Zora” - they had to read it from sight, so to speak.
The jury with Elisabeth Carr (“KunstRäume am See”), Dr.
Ernst Quester (“Starnberger Hefte”), city archivist Christoph Aschermann and Ilona Obermeier, head of the city library, decided on the placement.
The four took into account the children's understanding of the text, the liveliness when reading aloud, the intention conveyed and the selection of text in their own book.
Organizer Thomas Maier-Bandomer was very pleased with the event: “The reading competition is always a very nice thing,” said the German teacher.
He has observed that reading has become more attractive to children in recent years.
Many children in the Starnberg district read.
“I am aware that we are privileged and that many families with an interest in education live here,” says Maier-Bandomer.
The literature lessons are well received and reading is a highlight of the lesson.
“The students like to act out scenes and bring the imagination to life while reading,” said Maier-Bandomer.
For him it is important to read “authentically and not exaggeratedly”.
The nationwide reading competition is organized by the Book Culture and Reading Promotion Foundation of the German Book Trade Association.
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