Oxford German Olympiad Prizegiving 2018
Oxford German Olympiad 2018
Freundschaft - Friendship
Click on the links below to see the winning entries up close! Note: some links lead to external webpages (YouTube, Soundcloud etc.) or downloadable files.
Years 5-6/Age 9-11
An annotated picture of your best friend
- Winner: Fragipani Seiler
- Runner-up: Jacob Stevenage
- Highly commended: Dev Basra
- Commended: Madeleine Kroese
A poster for an event intended to help connect German-speaking people who have just moved to your area
- Winner: Scarlett Grogan and Rosanna Price-Novak
- Runner up: Ivie Aggrey-Orleans
A comic strip about two or more famous friends
- Winner: Elin Bahdori, Clara Wilhelm, Tirza Wilhelm, Wiebke Lauer
- Runner up: Jay Prince
Years 7-9/Age 11-14
Write and illustrate a modern version of one of Max and Moritz’s adventures
- Winner: Sophie Harris
- Runner up: Joel Allison
- Highly commended: Jodie Tang, Freya Thomas, Siena Harris
- Commended: Anna Saacke, Louise Bowers
A funny story about a German word and an English word who are ‘falsche Freunde'
- Winner: Ethan Allan and Adam Teschner
- Runner up: Eleanor Voak
- Highly Commended: Renee Shields
- Commended: Vibha Menon, Carys Williams, Jake Szymanski and Milli Crowther
An email to a pupil at a school in your town’s Austrian, Swiss or German twin town
- Winner: Alexandra Grinnell-Wright
- Runner-up: Asmitta Arulnanthy
- Runner-up: Shaylan Jasani
- Commended: Jersey Case, Ethan Brining
Years 10-11/Age 14-16
Retell the story of Gretel Riebel and June Whitcombe
- Winner: Katie Lynch
- Runner-up: Johan Orly
- Runner-up: Layla Barwell
A conversation between a pair or group of well-known friends from German literature or history
- Winner: Izzy Grout
- Runner-up: Kiana Rezakhanlou
- Runner-up: Elsa Voak
A blog post advising German, Austrian and Swiss readers on how to make friends in the UK
- Winner: Sophie Hu, Lucy Heasmann, Anna Knight and Sophie Orr
- Runner-up: Layla Barwell
- Commended: Rachel Zerdin
- Commended: Abesha Balakumar & Ikra Kabir
- Commended: Huw Burgin
- Commended: Isobel Ibironke
A script for a TV programme (of any genre) featuring the group of friends from Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues
- Winner: Louisa McDonald
- Runner-up: William Billington
- Commended: Chris Bird
A brochure containing some rules, tips and advice on using social media safely
- Winner: Iris Bertrand
- Runner-up: Marta Irena Tabak
- Highly commended: Khadija Muttaleb
- Highly commended: Kailan Adams
- Commended: Antonia Khalif (page 1, 2, 3)
- Commended: Allen Tomy
An essay on “Deutschland und Großbritannien: Freunde oder Feinde?”
- Winner: Beth Molyneux
- Runner-up: Sam Rubinstein
Open Group
A sketch about a friendship between two (historical) figures
- Winner: Ally Addison, Duncan Kremer, Tom Leslie, Brodie Rowland
- Runner-up: Victoria Adjei, Emily Eraneva-Dibb, Biranavi Kirupaka, Vaishnavi Mannivannan, Amy Sankey
A song about friendship
- Winner: Ben Stevens, William Meadows, Ryan Stoker, Liam Luscombe
- Runner-up: Lukas Ehlers (lyrics)
- Highly commended: Zara Murray, William Connor, Kaylie Etwaroo, Malik Mellal and their class at Claremont High School
- Commended: Aoife Soni, Hannah Hodges, Georgina Macfarlane, Sophie Jones
A ‘virtual tour’ of your town’s German twin city
The Oxford German Network is grateful to the Association for Language Learning and the Independent Schools' Modern Languages Association for their support of the Oxford German Olympiad and to Oxford University Press, Camden House, Penguin Books, the Wiener Library, London, and the German Embassy for the donation of prizes for the Oxford German Olympiad.