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Harald Roßberger (57) has been the director of the Tölzer Singing and Music School since 1990.
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Harald Roßberger, head of the Tölzer Singing and Music School since 1990, will be resigning from his position at the end of the year.
However, he remains at the school as a teacher.
Bad Tölz – The Tölzer Singing and Music School will have a new management in 2025.
Harald Roßberger, who has headed the school since 1990, informed the board of the sponsoring association about his decision at a meeting.
In the past few days, numerous other institutions that cooperate with the school have also found out.
Roßberger (57) will remain at the school as a clarinet teacher.
“I want and I have to set the priorities in my life differently,” says Roßberger as a reason for this step and says: “I had and I have the most beautiful job in the world.” He is grateful that he has been together for the past 35 years with many others “was able to create and live out so many things”.
The city in particular, but also numerous other cooperation partners, made this possible.
Roßberger took over the management of the school at the age of 23, as the first full-time headmaster.
Previously it had been run on a voluntary or part-time basis.
The facility is still run by a club.
The facility currently has around 1,050 students
During Roßberger's term of office, thousands of children and young people received musical training there, often with excellent performances in “Jugend musiziert”.
Around 1,050 students currently attend the facility, taught by 36 teachers.
Roßberger and his team have completed numerous projects.
The biggest was without a doubt “West Side Story”, performed in 2023 in cooperation with the Tölzer Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium.
“I’ve often been asked: How do you want to top that,” says Roßberger.
But you don't want that at all.
“None of us have the ambition to top that,” says the 57-year-old.
“The 'West Side Story' is unique.” You shouldn't expect “this feat of strength” from your successor or even measure it by it, he emphasizes.
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There has been a very intensive collaboration with the Tölzer Gymnasium in recent years.
Many stage projects were created, for example “Anatevka”, “The Warlock” and “Krabat”.
The schools also have a common big band, and the music school teachers prepare the exams for the music branch.
Numerous collaborations with schools, churches and kindergartens
Roßberger is a well-respected music teacher in Tölz.
Under his leadership, collaborations were established with primary schools and twelve kindergartens in the field of early musical education.
There were also repeated performances with the choirs of the Catholic parish and with the city band, and previously also with the Protestant Johanneskantorei.
As Roßberger says, there has been a “really great musical collaboration” with the special education support center in Tölz for around 15 years.
“City with a special touch”: around 100 events a year
Since 2010, the music school has been organizing the “City with a Special Touch” series of events in cooperation with the Tourist Information Office.
There are around 100 events every year.
This series replaces the spa orchestra, whose program was primarily aimed at holidaymakers.
Those responsible paid off: now both guests and locals come to the concerts, which offer everything from folk music to classical and even medieval music.
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Roßberger describes the move to the Greiner Cultural Center on Schlossplatz in 2006 as a “milestone”.
Previously, the office and classrooms were in containers opposite the AOK building on Jahnstrasse for almost 15 years.
Roßberger also fondly remembers the Bavarian Music School Day in Tölz in 2009 and the “European Music Days” in 2014.
The youngest “baby” – born to several “parents” – is the “Akademie am Schloßplatz”, which jointly supports the music school, the adult education center and the marionette theater, all located at Schloßplatz.
In the winter months there are lectures on a wide variety of topics.
“The most valuable thing is the lesson”
But what is “most valuable,” says Roßberger, is “what happens in every lesson: the pedagogy, the collaboration between students and teachers.” It was “a joy and an honor for him, for our school, for the teachers, “To do my best for the city and for numerous cooperation partners, but above all for the students entrusted to us and their families over this long period of time,” says Roßberger.
"Everything has it's time."
It is still unclear who will be his successor.
What topics are coming up?
As an example, Roßberger cites the right to all-day support, which will be available for first graders from 2026 and for all primary school levels in the following years until 2029.
“We don’t yet know how parents will take advantage of it, but it could be that fewer children will go to music schools,” says Roßberger.
That's why people in Tölz are already thinking about “how to bring music into schools”.