Walter Söhner GmbH & Co. KG won first place with it “Apprentice Theatre Project” in the Ausbildungs-Ass 2007 [Ace Apprentice] competition in the category “Industry, Trade, Services”.
Angelika Peter, training officer in Schwaigern, applied for the contest with the “Apprentice Theatre Project”.
The idea of letting the apprentices to do a play together was based on the thoughts of how cooperation and teambuilding could be improved independent of the chosen qualified job or the respective training department.
All the budding industrial clerks, precision mechanics, process mechanics and mechatronic apprentices in Schwaigern have exchanged, now, for the second time, for a 5 month-period, two hours once a week, the workbench and computer for play books and the stage.
The artistic work has been done by Udo Grunwald, an actor at the Heilbronn youth theatre Radelrutsch. He can call on long years of experience in working with young people through his work at the youth theatre.
The choice of the play is mutually chosen. In 2005 “The Dead Poets’ Society” was performed; in 2007 the play “Ein Tag in unserer Stadt“ [A Day in our City] by Udo Grunwald himself was performed.
The jury too liked the idea of looking at the overall aspect of apprenticeship and going down new paths. Furthermore they were very impressed that now the first success has been reached and solidarity and personality of the participating apprentices has growth tangibly.
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