Children's book author visits primary schools
"Mobile for Tolerance" - campaign organised by the Chemnitz City Library Friends' Association
On Tuesday and Wednesday, 15 and 16 September, the Hamburg children's author Stefani Taschinski will be visiting primary schools in Chemnitz. She will be reading from her book "Funklerwald" at four events for the "Mobile for Tolerance" project.
The story is about a group of raccoons who move to the Funklerwald forest after their home burns down. Unfortunately, the inhabitants don't like newcomers and decide that the raccoons have to go. Until a lynx girl befriends one of the raccoons.
Through the story, the young listeners come into contact with an omnipresent theme: tolerance towards newcomers. It is about getting to know each other as well as feeling alienated. The story makes it easy to talk to the children about this topic, to open up new perspectives and points of view and to encourage mutual exchange.
The "Mobile for Tolerance" project is taking place for the second time this year. It was initiated by the association Förderer der Stadtbibliothek Chemnitz e. V. and realised with the help of Chemnitz City Library. The readings are sponsored by the Local Action Plan of the City of Chemnitz.
Background
The project was created in 2019 in response to the great demand as part of the "Reading against violence" project, which is also funded by the Local Action Plan. The two projects make it possible to address different target groups. "Mobile for Tolerance" is aimed at primary school children and "Reading against Violence" at older children and young people.
With "Mobile for Tolerance", the city library becomes mobile by bringing the authors directly to the schools and thus to the pupils. The focus here is primarily on schools outside the city centre, for which it is difficult to take advantage of offers in the central library or the district libraries. The aim of the projects is to start a dialogue with the children through a story and to address difficult, conflict-laden content. By identifying with the characters in the story, a bridge is built to the world of the listeners.