Oxford German Olympiad Prizegiving 2019
Oxford German Olympiad 2019
Tiere und Monster - Animals and Monsters
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Years 5-6/Age 9-11
Draw a monster and label its parts
- Winner: Ryley Gibbons
- Joint runner-up: Amelia Master
- Joint runner-up: Matilda O'Connor
- Highly commended: Anjolaoluwa Solademi, Leandra Li, Georgina Whitworth and Lydia Frost
- Commended: Jaime Deaves, Archie Stubbs, Vera Soroka, Cecilia Fenton, Natalia Pustelnik, Oliwia Kaczmarzyk, Eleanor Gregory, Melisa Tekingunduz, Indie Sivel-Dimond, Haadiya Mushtaq and Alisia Hawkes
Draw a picture of your home from the perspective of an animal or insect living there
- Joint winner: Indie Sivel-Diamond
- Joint winner: Hannah Deverell
- Joint runner-up: Anjolaoluwa Solademi
- Joint runner-up: Indigo Williams
- Joint runner-up: Haadiya Mushtaq
Find a German fairytale about animals and draw a comic strip
- Joint runner-up: Huw Williams
- Joint runner-up: Emily Clayton-Mitchell
- Highly commended: Alice Gabor, Jaya Sanger and Bailey Luckhurst
- Commended: Shraddha Gopalakrishnan and Edward Baybrook
Years 7-9/Age 11-14
‘Gibt es wirklich Monster?’ Write a dialogue between two people who disagree about whether monsters really exist
- Joint winner: Milly McIlroy
- Joint winner: Isabella So
- Joint runners-up: Tanush Upadhye, Rohan Chavali and Joseph Davies
- Joint runner-up: Sophia Rose
- Commended: Izzy Crewe-Read, Ellen Minty, Samuel Rayner, Amelia Phillips, Fiona Firkpatrick, Sarah Muir, Elina Saha and Annie Egglestone
Create an advertising brochure for a zoo or wildlife sanctuary
- Winners: Kiana Rahimi, Florence Thomas, Caitlin Burke and Natasha Burke
- Joint runner-up: Jemima Richmond-Caunt
- Joint runner-up: Job Estill
- Highly commended: Flora Molnar, Lara Solie-Tuluie and Isabel Cavanagh
Research the history of the Krampus figure and Krampusnacht and create a poster explaining them
- Joint winner: Ben Harris
- Joint winner: Charlotte Yan
- Runners-up: Gabriel Munoz Duckett, Sebastian Shaw, Alexander Haacke-Calvo and Jaap Gill
Discover German
- Winners: Ayana Woodhill and Gianluca Walker
Years 10-11/Age 14-16
Research the roles played by animals in the First and Second World Wars and present your findings in an article
- Winner: Katie Haddon
- Runner-up: Lewis Aspinall
- Highly commended: Katie Lynch (page 1, page 2) and Anshul Sajip
- Commended: Eleanor Voak
Paint or draw an animal or animals in the style of the artist Franz Marc and write about the work of art that inspired it
- Winner: Irina Nigam (page 1, page 2)
- Runner-up: Alissa Sattentau (page 1, page 2)
- Highly commended: Anna Viehauser (page 1, page 2) and Sophia Wang
Retell a story (originally in any language) featuring animals and/or monsters
- Winner: Katie Lynch
- Runner-up: Dario Brincat
- Highly commended: Alexandra Mortimer and Amy King
- Commended: Sophia Wang, Vibha Menon and Vaibhavi Rajesh
Years 12-13/Age 16-18
‘Was tun Zoos für den Artenschutz?’ Write an article on this subject
- Winner: Maya Radford
- Runner-up: George Mingay
- Highly commeded: Jessica Ebner-Statt and Molly Wilshaw
- Commended: Oghenevomero Kokoricha and Melody Lessan
Create a comedy sketch retelling Kafka’s Die Verwandlung
- Winners: Charlotte Cheah, Alexandra Mikhalenko, Laura Thomas and Martina Maslikova
- Runner-up: William Billington
Write a short story about a female monster
- Joint winners: Maria Rischitor and Mia Borgese
- Joint winner: Maya Evans
- Joint runner-up: Eleanor Voak
- Joint runner-up: William Billington
Open Competition
Create a film or PowerPoint presentation about Tierversuche
- Winners: Annika de Lathauwer, Jessica Trodden-Mittnacht, Ines Fournis-Lerma and Anoushka Maru
- Runners-up: Matthew Stranex, Francis Lee, Jack Jones and Reuben Bye
- Highly commended: Sam Chapman, James Gibson, Jack Brinkman, Elizabeth Bailey
Write and illustrate a short book for children about an animal or monster
- Joint winners: Aleena Joshy, Kelly Wang, Raya Hossain, Briya Prabaharan
- Joint winners: Jessica Xiao, Lucy McCrone, Amba Minhas, Evania Raju and Amelia Slimak
- Runners-up: Mili Biggin and Willa Merttens
- Highly commended: Lydia Metaxa, Margeurite Pickford, Catriona Hay, Gigi Lane, Christy Choi and Amber Preston
- Commended: Ewaoluwa Adesan, Kiran Narwan, Oladunni Adisa, Iman Zomah (pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), Omobolaji Olufemi, Angelina Noori, Sarah Shah, Ouwaseyifunmi Adeola
‘Unser Leben mit einem Monster.’ Create a film or song
- Winners: Fatma Kassim, Jemima Webster, Millie Hastings, Erica Masters, Talulla Purchess, Tanishka Suryayanshi, Sofia Brand Whithead and Molly Ahmad
- Runners-up: Sushant Deshpande, Theo Mama-Kahn, Om Chakrapani and Noel Kim
- Highly commended: Hope Farquhar, Holly Long, Sophia Rose, Amelia Phillips, Aoife Soni, Georgia McFarlane, Hannah Hodges and Sophie Jones
- Commended: Kai Edmundson, Montegue Cort, Seb White and Ben Dowton, Nancy Mwenjera, Cordelia Taylor, Sophie Merlino, Ruwaida Osman, Kelti Dushaj and Ayen Mading
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, New Books in German, Camden House, Penguin Books, the Wiener Library, London, and the German Embassy for the donation of prizes for the Oxford German Olympiad.