Paul Vier and the Schröders
"Paul Vier und die Schröders" is a book for young people by the author Andreas Steinhöfel, which teachers like to read together in German lessons. The content summarizes the topic of prejudice and outsiders in society, which is made easy to read for students through an interesting background story.
Paul Vier lives in the middle-class Ulmenstrasse
- Paul Walser is 14 years old and the fourth Paul in his family history, that's why everyone calls him Paul Vier. He lives with his family on Ulmenstrasse in a small and tranquil place.
- If you want to express it boldly, you could say that only absolute philistines live in Ulmenstraße. Here everything goes its regular course and no one falls out of the crowd due to abnormalities.
- Paul Vier only knows this sheltered life of the "ordinary citizen" and accordingly thinks that his Family and their neighbors are completely normal and that all other people are just as typically petty-bourgeois Life.
The Schröders are the new neighbors
- It was only through the Schröder family that Paul got to know that besides the civilized petty bourgeoisie there are also people in the world who live a completely different lifestyle. This is the crux of the content of the story.
- Ms. Schröder is a single mother of four children and is moving into the house next door to Paul's family. The whole street is appalled by it. Not only that there is no father in the family, the people are outraged, but especially that the children come from several different fathers.
- Last but not least, the four children are viewed with suspicion. You have very strange Names and all of them have very special peculiarities that do not fit into the image of Ulmenstrasse. For example, one of the children was born clairvoyant and another was born short.
"Paul Vier und die Schröders" is a children's novel written by Andreas Steinhöfel. …
The content revolves around outsiderhood and prejudice
- It goes without saying that the narrow-minded residents of the place are cautious about their new neighbors from the start. Schröders are thought to be abnormal, strange, even anti-social people.
- The rumor mill about the Schröder family is boiling violently. So it is not surprising that they are viewed as outsiders, avoiding them wherever possible and immediately blaming the Schröders for all unusual things.
- The children are also anything but "good" and so some very strange situations quickly arise in the small town.
- Paul Vier also scrutinized the new neighbors at the beginning - although he is the only person from the whole of Ulmenstrasse who does this in a value-neutral manner. Of course, the Schröders are somehow "different", but Paul befriends the children against the express wishes of his parents.
- He quickly notices that the other people are actually negative towards the Schröders for absolutely no reason, and he understands that the Schröders are actually not outsiders at all. The residents of his street simply declare them to be outsiders because none of the philistines see it wants his petty bourgeois life to be not the only and, above all, not the only right way to live his life.
The content of this book shows the reader very clearly how very many people are to their fellow human beings judge - and also condemn - by superficialities, without actually actually correcting them know. The author Andreas Steinhöfel shows that it is worthwhile not only to focus on your own life plan to bite down, like the stuffy people on Ulmenstrasse do, but also without prejudice to other models of life to meet.
