Class! We sing

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Class! We sing is a music educational project for students up to 7th grade, which was originally initiated in Braunschweig and later transferred to other federal states. It is an action that encourages children to sing at school and in their free time and specifically addresses children who have not yet been led to “sing by themselves”.

concept

Gerd-Peter Münden is the intellectual originator of “Class! We sing". The conception is simple and has remained unchanged in all actions. Especially with children who have never sung in a choir before, participation in a big final concert in the choir with thousands of other children, light, band and stage leads to a boost in motivation and self-confidence. At the same time, the children are taught a common canon of songs that enables them to sing together outside of school. The CD for practicing at home means that whole families are also involved in singing. The motto song class! Wir singen was written by Brigitte Antes and Gerd-Peter Münden.

The campaign is suitable for children in grades 1 to 7. The project does not want to find the superstar of the region, rather it is about a fulfilled musical togetherness, regardless of origin and level of education. Children with and without disabilities from all cultures experience the fun of singing together. The planning, coordination and execution of the "song festivals" is controlled by an organization office.

What is unusual for a cultural project of this kind is that the project does not require public funding. It is financed through three pillars:

  • With a participation fee of ten euros, the children finance the learning material that they are allowed to keep (song book, learning CD with all the songs as choir and karaoke versions, identification t-shirt). The sponsors Rossmann and Procter & Gamble cover the costs for the exempt children (children with an ALG II background, refugee children and children from large families) .
  • The visitor cards refinance the song festivals (admission 2019: € ​​7.80 - € 14.80 for adults ("sponsors" up to € 20), children € 4.80 - € 10.80; parents and siblings who receive ALG II or have fled, the entrance ticket for a nominal fee of 1 €)
  • The organization is financed by sponsors who also cover the costs for the exempt children and for the reduced admission tickets for parents from Hartz IV families and refugees.

The campaign is run by the non-profit association Singen e. V. with the chairman Gerd-Peter Münden and based in Braunschweig. According to its own information, the association consists of eight members. The association's finances are not public.

Three senses method

The “three-senses method” is available to the participating teachers to help them practice the canon of songs. This provides for learning the lyrics by taking into account auditory perception (hearing), visual perception (seeing) and tactile perception (feeling).

Part of the “three senses method” is a choreography tailored to each song, which accompanies the lyrics with a visual language, that is, with movements and gestures that are adapted to the text. The children hear the song, see the teacher's gestures associated with the text, imitate these movements and feel their own body. By including the three senses, the children learn the texts much faster and more sustainably than with pure singing before and after.

history

In 2003 Gerd-Peter Münden came up with the idea of ​​singing together in a large hall to inspire children who had not sung before. After a four-year planning phase, the project emerged. The pilot project started in Braunschweig in 2007, where a total of 28,000 children sang in 10 concerts, the so-called song festivals , in the Volkswagen Hall in Braunschweig in front of a total of over 40,000 spectators. The project was resumed in 2011. The choirs consisting of school classes performed in all major cities in Lower Saxony with a total of 135,000 participants. Large event locations were, for example, the Weser-Ems-Halle in Oldenburg , the TUI Arena in Hanover and the Volkswagen Halle in Braunschweig. In 2012 the project came to Berlin for the first time on the initiative of the local cathedral choirmaster Tobias Brommann . 2013 guest box office! We sing in Westphalia. In the following years, more and more locations were added, which are usually used every three years. The song festivals are led by a team of moderators (Elke Lindemann, Tobias Brommann, Jan Brögger, Michael Cordes and Gerd-Peter Münden).

Musical ambassadors from January 2014 to 2017 were Rudolf Schenker (founder of the Scorpions ) and the group Wise Guys .

Awards

Venues

  • 2007: Braunschweig region, 10 concerts with 28,000 participants and 39,000 listeners
  • 2011: Lower Saxony, 83 concerts with 135,000 participants and 175,000 listeners
  • 2012:
    • Berlin, 5 concerts with 17,000 participants and 20,000 listeners
    • Hamburg, 500 participants and 1,000 listeners
  • 2013:
    • Westphalia, 19 concerts with 50,000 participants and 55,000 listeners
  • 2014:
    • Saarland, 2 concerts with 2,500 participants
    • Oberhausen, 3 concerts with 11,000 participants
    • Düsseldorf, 2 concerts with 6,000 participants
    • Cologne, 4 concerts with 18,000 participants and 21,000 listeners
    • Hamburg, 3 concerts with 17,000 participants
    • Stuttgart, 1 concert with 2,700 participants
  • 2015:
    • Hanover, 7 concerts
    • Göttingen, 8 concerts
    • Lingen, 7 concerts
    • Oldenburg, 8 concerts
    • Quakenbrück, 10 concerts
    • Braunschweig, 10 concerts
    • Berlin, 4 concerts
    • Bremen, 3 concerts with 12,000 participants
    • total: 145,000 participants
  • 2016:
    • Bielefeld
    • Dortmund
    • Neubrandenburg
    • Muenster
    • Potsdam
    • Rostock
    • Schwerin
  • 2017:
    • Flensburg
    • Hamburg
    • Kiel
    • Cologne
    • Lübeck
    • Offenbach
  • 2018:
    • Braunschweig, 4 concerts
    • Emden, 2 concerts
    • Frankfurt am Main, 2 concerts
    • Fulda, 2 concerts
    • Göttingen, 3 concerts
    • Hanover, 3 concerts
    • Kassel, 1 concert
    • Lingen, 3 concerts
    • Oldenburg, 3 concerts
    • Quakenbrück, 2 concerts
    • Stade, 3 concerts
    • Wetzlar, 1 concert
  • 2019:
    • Rostock, 5 concerts
    • Neubrandenburg, 3 concerts
    • Bielefeld, 4 concerts
    • Wuppertal, 3 concerts
    • Berlin, 6 concerts
    • Trier, 3 concerts
    • Münster, 4 concerts
    • Schwerin, 2 concerts
    • Dortmund, 3 concerts
  • 2020:
    • Gutersloh
    • Ludwigshafen
    • Bremen
    • Saarbrücken
    • Hamburg
    • Koblenz
    • Dresden
    • Mainz
    • Bonn

So far, over 1.6 million people - over 730,000 schoolchildren and more than 900,000 visitors - have taken part in the song festivals. (As of June 2019)

Songs

At the song festivals in Cologne in June 2014 there were Cologne “exchange songs”:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ class! We sing ( Memento from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on ndr.de
  2. ↑ "Great! We sing “: Schoolchildren inspire audiences in Weser-Ems-Halle on nwzonline.de, May 20, 2011
  3. ↑ Westphalia 2013: 50,000 registrations. Retrieved March 19, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Musical ambassadors on klasse-wir-singen.de
  5. ↑ That was “Great! Wir sing “2013 in Westphalia ( memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on klasse-wir-singen.de
  6. ↑ Gabi Laue: Goosebumps on "Morning has broken" on www.rp-online.de
  7. ↑ klasse-wir-singen.de. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 25, 2014 .
  8. ↑ 17,000 children came to the song festival in Hamburg on www.abendblatt.de
  9. ↑ class! We sing! in Stuttgart on stuttgarter-zeitung.de
  10. ↑ Thousands of students fill the town hall on weser-kurier.de
  11. ↑ Dates of the song festivals ( Memento from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on klasse-wir-singen.de
  12. ↑ Text Die Reise der Sonne on umwelt-und-natur.de
  13. ↑ Exchange songs for the song festivals in Cologne on klasse-wir-singen.de