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Uschi Glas starts brotZeit”: Free breakfast for Bautzen children!
With the brotZeit initiative, Uschi Glas brings free school breakfast to Bautzen to support children and provide them with a healthy diet.
Uschi Glas starts brotZeit”: Free breakfast for Bautzen children!
What's going on in Bautzen? The actress Uschi Glas brings with her initiative breadtime a delicious breakfast for students back in the district. Twenty years ago she filmed there for the ARD film “A Love in September”, in which she married her partner Peter Bongartz in front of the camera. Now she combines her memories with a good cause and wants to help children who have to go to school without breakfast. The situation is alarming: every fifth child in Germany goes to school hungry, including in the Bautzen district.
“The lack of breakfast has fatal consequences,” warns Glas. Concentration problems and bad grades are just the tip of the iceberg. To counteract this, the “brotZeit” initiative Launched in 2009, the aim is to provide children with a healthy breakfast. The start of the project in Görlitz at the Melanchthon primary school in October 2021 was a first step, and now it is time to further expand the initiative.
Breakfast for everyone
The numbers are encouraging. By the end of 2025, around 35 schools in the funding regions of Upper Lusatia, Lower Silesia and Dresden and the surrounding area are expected to take part in the project. But only schools that can demonstrate an increased need for support will be considered. A special highlight: More than 900 seniors volunteer and not only support the children with breakfast, but often also offer emotional support.
The breakfast helpers prepare an attractive buffet consisting of 28 different foods. The children can choose what they want to eat - and that is important because many of them grow up without support at home. Often there are single parents who don't have time to prepare a healthy breakfast for their children. But the influence is positive: feedback from schools shows that students show up to class more punctually and become more balanced.
Future vision
The plans for the future are also promising. From 2028, around 800 schools are to be integrated into the project. The initiative plans to expand further to other federal states, so that Hamburg, among others, plays a role with 21 schools. There are even plans to add 10 more schools here. Support is required through donations to cover long-term costs.
“It is important to us not only to provide for the children, but also to raise awareness of healthy eating,” says Glas, who remains enthusiastic about the original idea, which came about in the fight against starving primary school children in Munich. From the distribution of emergency boxes with rusks and granola bars to daily breakfast offers - the initiative has developed enormously.
Uschi Glas is not only a colorful figure in German film history, but also an active supporter of the next generation. It remains to be hoped that their vision for a healthy breakfast in schools will continue to reach many children in the future.