School

Demand for all-day programs at schools is growing. This applies not only to the regular school. The parents of children attending a ford school also increasingly want their children to be able to attend school in the afternoon. Since the beginning of the school year, the model of a partner class has been introduced at the middle school in rodental. It's going well, as principal susanne fritze assured the city's senate yesterday.

It was about children at the melchior franck school in coburg. "The parents wanted to continue the cooperation with the mauritius school also in the middle school", explains susanne fritze. The school board wanted to fulfill this wish, searched for a suitable middle school and found rodental. "It is well known at the school board that we are always open to new ideas," explains susanne fritze, woman the principal.

The willow splint is barely wider than a wool thread: waldemar backert pulls it precisely through the rods, which are only half a centimeter apart. Under his dexterous fingers, a tiny basket is created that is just one-third as big as his hand. The michelauer is a master of his craft, and even if he is now at an age when others have long since put their hands in their laps, he makes many younger ones look old with his dexterity, weaving miniatures that have made him famous in the meantime. Weaving has been more than just a profession for him, it is his passion.

"He who weaves baskets grows old", jokes adolph kraus ,and the other weavers who for the last time in the season 2018 in the german basket museum in the "living workshops" present their craft, nod enthusiastically. In addition to backert and kraus, these are wilfried popp, for many years deputy head of the state vocational school for wickerwork design in lichtenfels, ilse schardt and werner herold, the last spank basket maker in mistelfeld. For all of them, their craft is a passion, a vocation, even in retirement.