DELUXE
PEOPLE
“Entertaining people
is an honourable profession”
Esther Schweins is one of many actors who live in Mallorca between
engagements. She made her breakthrough in the 1990s in the
Saturday night comedy series on RTL. Since then she has appeared
in numerous TV films and movies. She and her Mallorquin partner
have made the Island their permanent home with their two children.
The 47 year old, who embraces the ambivalence of both glamour
and being down-to-earth, is currently lending her expertise to
the new Stagepoint project in ParcBIT. Escola Global is an international school with a forward-thinking educational ethos that
focuses on the healthy, ecological balance between man and nature.
In October 2016 it opened a Saturday school offering a range
of performance-based classes including acting, musical theatre
and dance. Esther Schweins is one of the team of experienced artists
and teachers responsible for developing the curriculum.
In DELUXE she talks about what Stagepoint has to offer.
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Frau Schweins, for eight years Escola Global
has been offering an alternative to the
education offered by Mallorquin and British
schools on the Island. What do you like about
the curriculum of this school?
Actually the curriculum does not differ significantly from that of the other schools on the
Island. The difference lies in the project-based
learning using holistic principles and also double monitoring, i.e. two teachers per class. All
the standard subjects are taught, but each subject then flows into other disciplines. The classrooms are open and their large windows allow
the students to see into other rooms. It is lovely
to see how happy the children clearly feel.
Students at Escola Global come from almost
thirty different nations and the teaching staff
are also very international. Can you see
advantages in this type of education over that
in schools in Germany?
You can’t really compare schools in Germany
with local ones here. The challenges of an
international school are quite different.
Mallorca is a melting pot of nationalities.
Educational institutions must be fair to them all