www bosch stiftung de writers worlds Find more information and contacts at our website He himself has run several writing workshops and he is convinced that all people carry poetry within them Writing spaces just have to be created for them to express it Writing means being yourself putting into words what you feel and think says Oliver The Weltenschreiber work shops aim at teaching students to com municate to give names to things People who learn to say and write something will enter into a dialog with themselves and others says Oliver emphasizing that this is indispensable for participation in a community Language work is social work No one knows exactly what will happen in the course of the writing workshop what talents may be discov ered But the Weltenschreiber pro gram reaches beyond the school frame work and is laid out for the long term In addition to teacher training in literary writing an integral part of the program writing scholarships will be awarded to young authors beginning in 2019 These authors will subsequently work with children and young people interested in writing The resulting works will also be shown to the public to give a larger audience a look into the lives of young people To this end a regular Welten schreiber festival is planned starting in 2020 where the works from the writing workshops will be presented Höss and Elsäßer also want to celebrate something at the end of the school year that they were able to awaken the fun in writing that the learning group stuck with the project for a whole year with joy and excitement and that they pro duced something literary together There s no lack of fun and excitement during the first Weltenschreiber unit in Esslingen not even at the end of the lesson when the learning group shows its musical side and belts out Mark Forster s hit Chöre Tobias Elsäßer answers with his own song Crazy Is Normal and Normal is Crazy Totally cool says Mara tucking her strawberry blonde hair behind her ear and writing a few lines from the song in her notebook which she flips shut only at the final bell of the day for Learning Group 7a browses through the empty pages Feel free to draw something too Or paste something in the author continues These could be for example shopping lists that can sometimes be found on the street or in a shopping cart A few hands shoot up I once found a banknote that had strange rows of numbers on it one student from the last row remembers We had an old receipt from a supermarket behind our heater a gentle looking girl closer to the front reports excited ly More and more hands go up Nearly everyone seems to have once found something exciting or unusual Keep an eye out for those little things advises Elsäßer who himself loves to study little found scraps and think up stories about them Or maybe even just crouch down now and then to get a change in perspective That s how exciting stories crop up he says As here in Esslingen one to two year writing workshops led by teacher author tandems will get underway for the first time this school year in Baden Württemberg Mecklenburg Western Pomerania and Lower Saxony With the support of the Literaturhäuser houses of literature in Stuttgart and Rostock and the Literary Center of Göttingen the duos have previously developed their own project outlines to introduce students to literary writing They plan to produce radio plays design com ics write multi perspective class novels or even extend existing books Elsäßer and Höss have taken on the latter with 7a they want to read Elsäßer s book Ab ins Paradies Off to Paradise during the school year a book about the journey of a boy who lost his grandfather and finds a new companion They ll talk about roles and dialogs using the novel and then develop the story further in chats scenes and roleplays and ac company these with music Writing is by no means just something for high flyers and shining stars says Elsäßer Writing means freedom and that should be something for everyone That view is shared by José Oliver an author and winner of the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize who helped to conceptualize the Welten schreiber program developed under the direction of the Robert Bosch µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø But be careful writing can completely turn your life upside down 31THE MAGAZINE 3 18 Tobias Elsäßer and Kathrin Höss form a Welten schreiber team The author singer and German teacher immediately became friends and quickly had a basic concept for the writing workshop Ph ot o P ri va te
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