The brass-band players

Schosers in Burladingen have already previously attracted our attention as having 'rhythm in their blood'. As reported back in 2009, no less than four Schosers were then members of Burladingen's local musical ensemble.

The passion and talent for music seems to have been passed on to the next generation. Once again, no less than four Schosers participated in a concert of the youth music school Burladingen in the Hörschwag community centre on Sunday, 19 November 2017.


Fabian and Valentin Schoser were part of the trumpet ensemble that opened the concert. Marian and Daniel Schoser joined the two and others as part of the brass ensemble that played 'First Performance' and 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' later on. Marian played the trombone and Daniel the euphonium. Needless to say that the performance was met with thunderous applause as Südwest Presse reports.

PaPis snacks take off to the skies

Nadia - cofounder of PaPicante

Former stewardess Nadia Schoser has achieved her ambition to design a healthy snack and have it served on airplanes. With her start-up company PaPicante, she introduced a pea protein snack bar to the public in early 2017 and only a few months later, the snack is listed not only with German airline Eurowings but also with major retailers such as EDEKA and REWE.

The snack comes in three flavours: American style, Mediterranean style and Asian style. Nadia's vision was to create a savoury and healthy counterpart to sweet cereal bars and other calorie-rich snacks usually served on board.  Accordingly, the snacks are made of natural ingredients such as pea protein crisps, rice syrup and puffed quinoa.

PaPicante's website reveals that to date 29,314 PaPis have been consumed. The website also runs an online shop where PaPis can be ordered in unlimited quantities.

Chairman wanted

To support extracurricular school activities, the town of Burladingen hosts a privately run fund-raising association. Over the past year, the association has supported projects as diverse as 'classes with horses', visits to the former concentration camp in Dachau and to a refugee reception camp in Sigmaringen as well as an alcohol prevention project for adolescents.

Melanie (2nd from right) with the association's board

At this year's annual assembly, there was therefore obviously reason to celebrate the successful work of the association. Even more so as the finances of the association are in good shape. Of particular importance to us is of course that Melanie Schoser has taken an active role in running the association as parents' representative. All would be seem perfect if there weren't a particular concern: after the resignation of the former chairman no one new has yet been found to fill that post. We don't want to believe that this can't be solved...

Game, set and match to Schoser!

Since 2015, the three tennis clubs of Burladingen organise together an annual youth tennis tournament. It takes place on Ascension Day which in 2017 was 28 May and was a particularly hot day.

Youth champion Daniel Schoser in the middle

Braving the heat it was Daniel Schoser who won the tournament and became 'youth city champion'. Already in the previous year, he won the competition in the category for under 12-year old boys (U12). It was also in 2016 that Marian and Fabian Schoser took part in this tournament. Fabian finished third in the U12 category and Marian finished runner-up among the older boys.

Rather than awarding any cups or medals as in previous years, the organisers decided this year to hand out to the winners original towels from Wimbledon.