The Planegg-Krailling music school, which has existed for 50 years, will soon no longer exist in its current form. The school can only survive with a new statute, “in which we as communities have our foot in the door,” said Kraillinger Mayor Rudolph Haux (FDP) on Thursday at a press conference with his Planegger counterpart Hermann Nafziger (CSU). The background is the disputes between the board of directors, works council, teachers and some members, which have been simmering for more than a year in camera. The two mayors are convinced that the damage caused is irreparable.
A first attempt to adopt a new statute, which should be based on the usual statutes for music schools, failed on Wednesday evening: At a general meeting, 29 of 50 participants voted against a new statute, ten abstained, the rest were in favor. After the announcements by members of the old board and the two mayors three weeks ago, this also means that the municipal grants of around 400,000 euros will not be paid out for the time being. The two municipal councils must now decide on this. While Planegg has already frozen the money, it should actually be paid out in Krailling in June.
The teachers themselves determine the board of directors. The result: 70 days of vacation and other benefits
What the apparently bitter and passionate arguments were and are really about was not exactly clear in the second press conference either. According to Nafziger and Haux, the existing statute – which has existed for 40 years – offers teachers “extraordinary advantages”, such as 70 days of vacation per year. The two politicians are particularly annoyed that “the teachers, as members, are allowed to determine their own board,” as Nafziger explains. For example, they could also have a say in salaries, holidays and other important things such as personnel decisions: “That doesn’t exist anywhere,” says Haux. According to Nafziger, this circumstance and personal animosity have led to more and more crunching in the club in recent years.
“The impacts came closer and closer,” said the mayor of Planegg, who held up a folder as proof: “There are only e-mails with nasty insults and insults of a very personal nature. Everything has totally escalated.” Legal proceedings would have cost the communities a lot of money. “It was clear to us that we as communities had to take on more responsibility,” says Nafziger. “The members should no longer be able to overrule the communities.” A new statute is needed for this. In it, the two mayors would have voting rights and otherwise only three to five personalities proposed by the local councils, including local councils themselves. Nafziger and Haux believe “that camps can no longer form in this way”.
The chairwoman of the works council says: “Everything is going great!”
The other side sees it very differently. Works council chairwoman Elisabeth Glauber-Diehl told the SZ: “The current sponsoring association is to be artificially bankrupted. The grants to which we are entitled are to be used as a means of exerting pressure.” She was irritated by the role of the two mayors: “What drove them to jump on this cart?” She refers to a “always well-functioning school” and says: “Everything is going great!” The preparations for the 50th anniversary celebrations with a “Day of Music” on May 14 are “in full swing”. Glauber-Diehl worries about the teachers at the school: “Are they getting their salary? After all, the parents continue to pay. It’s about jobs.”
Nafziger and Haux want to “give the school another chance”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/landkreismuenchen/.”We don’t show ourselves to be closed either,” says Haux. “We don’t want a new school. But we want to keep our foot in the door.” Both emphasize that in the event of a further rejection of a new statute that suits them, they want to found a new supporting association.
One who is hit hard by the dispute is the new headmaster Fabian Bögelsack. He was present at the press conference and spoke of “massive communication problems among each other”. Everything sounds “very much like kindergarten. There is a huge need for clarification.” He is a “friend of compromises” and also believes that only a new statute recognized by all those involved will enable efficient cooperation in the future. Bögelsack also spoke out in favor of “a second chance”.
There will probably be. In the next few days, the two municipal councils will not be publicly discussing the situation. Another general meeting is then to vote again on a new statute. “This is how we want to enable a restart,” said Nafziger. Of course according to the ideas of politics.