It’s dead quiet in the Grafing public library. He hasn’t even started yet, the first regional decision of the reading competition for the sixth grades. Those children who have won at their respective schools in the district will have their big performance on stage.
They deliberately do not say which types of schools these are before the five boys and nine girls start reading exciting and funny passages from their favorite books without any noticeable nervousness. And as strange relatives, even stranger teachers, teenagers who turn into animals, the protagonists of “Inkheart” and even Gollum are brought to life with great onomatopoeic skill, the audience listens, spellbound and amused. In the second part, the outstanding performance shown by everyone when reading an unfamiliar text is impressive.
All of these 14 young readers have already won at their respective schools.
(Photo: Peter Hinz-Rosin)
That’s why the jury, consisting of Ernst Müller (honorary reader of the library and former teacher), Sabine Berndorfner (City of Grafing), Florian Beutel (child and youth psychotherapist), Ulrich Proske (Mayor of Ebersberg) and Michaela Pelz (Southgerman newspaper), really hard to decide. In the end, Valentina Neun is chosen as the winner. It’s not surprising that the eleven-year-old also loves theater after her reading from “Tante Rotz los lays”. Now it goes on for the Steinhöringer, first to the district decision and then possibly to the state and federal finals. The SZ Ebersberg is definitely keeping its fingers crossed.