{"id":46928,"date":"2025-05-31T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/musical-reading-with-a-trio-of-childrens-book-authors\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:22:34","slug":"musical-reading-with-a-trio-of-childrens-book-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/musical-reading-with-a-trio-of-childrens-book-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Reading with a Trio of Children’s Book Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authors Sven Gerhardt, Mira Valentin, and Andreas Steinh\u00f6fel treated the audience to an entertaining evening at the well-established annual early-summer event hosted by the MENTOR association\u2014Die Leselernhelfer\u2014at the Steinm\u00fchle Forum.<\/p>\n

The three readings, which could hardly have been more different, were interspersed with musical performances\u2014not only a treat for the ears, but also a visual treat thanks to the many singers in attendance.<\/p>\n

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On the bestseller list<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sven Gerhardt says he \u201calmost became a teacher,\u201d but then decided to write children\u2019s books\u2014and did so with great success. He has written 28 of them and made it onto the bestseller list. At the Steinm\u00fchlenforum, he took the audience on a journey to the Wahrlichwald, transporting listeners to another place in their minds for a while. That, too, can be a great way to unwind at the end of a workday! <\/p>\n

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Captivated by the lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andreas Steinh\u00f6fel, a crowd favorite, multiple award-winning children\u2019s book author, and patron of MENTOR, never fails to captivate his audience in a special way. With his work and its protagonist, \u201cInger,\u201d he once again ensured that the people in the packed hall could let their minds wander for a while, while at the same time remaining captivated by Steinh\u00f6fel\u2019s style of storytelling and by the plot, which allowed the audience to identify deeply with the characters. <\/p>\n

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Great Fantasies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mira Valentin transported the audience to another world for the duration of her reading. “Melek vs. the Jinn” was the theme of her evening, and the literary journey was brimming with fantasies, dreams, and discoveries. The setting for the story, however, was “the forest near Buchenau”\u2014that is, the Marburg countryside, where all three authors call home. <\/p>\n

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Musical Variety with WirSing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several performances by the WirSing choir, conducted by tenor and Steinm\u00fchlen music teacher Daniel Sans, added an extra touch of musical flair to the evening. It was clear to everyone that they were having a lot of fun, as was evident in Daniel Sans\u2019s professional piano playing. <\/p>\n

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One-quarter of the population cannot read<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listening to all these performances, one almost forgot the actually not-so-joyful reason behind this lovely evening. Time and again, it\u2019s hard to imagine that 25 percent of fourth-graders have little or no reading skills by the end of elementary school. – It\u2019s therefore obvious why MENTOR has made it its mission to improve children\u2019s reading skills with the help of volunteers. Parts of Marburg\u2019s business community are also committed to this cause, and their representatives were also in the audience. <\/p>\n

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An Important Social Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n

MENTOR Chairwoman Inge Maisch and board members Irmgard K\u00f6nig, Dr. Michaele K\u00fcnzel, and Gisela Falk thanked everyone who advocates for this cause\u2014regardless of their role. This also applied to the host, Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer, principal of Steinm\u00fchle School, who sees a close connection between the association\u2019s self-imposed mission and the concerns of Steinm\u00fchle School. Collaboration is therefore fruitful, as an event like this consistently brings an important social issue to the forefront. Information about reading skills deficits must be brought to light! Only then can solutions be developed to address the problem. <\/p>\n

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Authors Sven Gerhardt, Mira Valentin, and Andreas Steinh\u00f6fel treated the audience to an entertaining evening at the well-established annual early-summer event hosted by the MENTOR association\u2014Die Leselernhelfer\u2014at the Steinm\u00fchle Forum. The three readings, which could hardly have been more different, were interspersed with musical performances\u2014not only a treat for the ears, but also a visual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":46934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,95,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-music-theater","category-collaborations-partnerships","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51758,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46928\/revisions\/51758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}